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November 7, 2014

P-Rod

Welcome back, Slappy! Let the circus begin.

New York Daily News, November 6-7, 2014:
Alex Rodriguez urinated on a wall of his cousin Yuri Sucart's home to send a message and mark his territory, the cousin's wife told the Daily News in an explosive interview at the couple's Miami home.

Carmen Sucart, whose husband, Yuri Sucart, is A-Rod's estranged cousin and alleged steroid mule, blasted Rodriguez for accusing her deathly ill husband of trying to extort the troubled Yankee superstar.

"He is the devil," she said Thursday. "He is evil."




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6 comments:

  1. allanNovember 7, 2014 at 3:55 PM

    Baseball Think Factory comment, from Al Kaline Trio: "Say what you will about The Captain but at least he's housebroken."

    Hardball Talk comment, from longfootlefty: "#PEE2PECT"

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  2. johngoldfineNovember 8, 2014 at 7:37 AM

    Not that I have anything at all nice to say about A-Rod, but it's interesting how our narratives insist on glorious heroes and lurid villains separated by a moral universe, or, in the case of the Yankees, the rather shorter distance on the field between former SS Jeter and once and future (?) 3B A-Rod.

    God knows Jeter is not worthy of the hagiography we've been subjected to-- and A-Rod perhaps not quite the amount of vilification heaped on him.

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  3. allanNovember 9, 2014 at 9:35 AM

    God knows Jeter is not worthy of the hagiography we've been subjected to-- and A-Rod perhaps not quite the amount of vilification heaped on him.

    Yeah, I'd agree. Alex is a super easy whipping boy. And I guarantee that if he had released anything even approaching those Jeter commercials from late last season he would have been ripped in the media from every possible angle. But if they feature Jeter, that kind of self-adulation is okay, even praise-worthy.

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  4. ZenslingerNovember 10, 2014 at 2:16 PM

    I have eased up in my mind on some of my "hated" players like Bonds and Clemens. And it may be true the villianification is too much. But for me, it's A-Rod's on-the-field bullshit, especially The Slap, that reveals his personality and sticks in my craw.

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  5. laura kNovember 10, 2014 at 5:47 PM

    and A-Rod perhaps not quite the amount of vilification heaped on him.

    I say that to Allan about Clemens. It's ridiculous to hate any player that much. It becomes a cartoon, just like the gushing over Jeter, as John rightly points out.

    I also have nothing nice to say about Alex Rodriguez, but as someone who adored him when he was young, I find it a fascinating train-wreck of a story, the golden boy and the ultimate fall. I look forward to the rehabilitation and second coming.

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  6. johngoldfineNovember 11, 2014 at 3:56 AM

    "I look forward to the rehabilitation and second coming."

    That does seem to be a feature of our toxic and hypocritical public morality plays down here in the US of A.

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