Everyone has secrets

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09glanville.html

I was relieved to read this one article that hasn't compared A-rod to Hitlerstalinpuppykiller. I know he is the player that people seem to love to hate, but I have always had a secret fondness for him, which stems from an incident in Boston a number of years ago. Apparently he was in town for a game and walking down the street. A little boy started to fall into the street and Satan, oh I mean A-rod jumped into the street and pulled the boy back to safety. This instinctive action won him huge points in my book. Not everybody would risk their personal safety to immediately rescue someone. This article also asks why no one is concerned about confidentiality issues, which I have concerned me. Why was his name leaked, or any name for that matter? I think that people might be a little more worried about confidentiality, after all, how would they feel if their therapist spilled the beans. Oh yes, Mr. Blogs told me in many sessions that he liked to put on women's underwear and dance the electric slide. Everyone has secrets that the wish to keep hidden. I am also sick of people feigning horror about Michael Phelps. Why don't they ask about how he could have such crappy friends that would post a picture of him with a bong? People seem to love so called heros and then take delight in castigating them for any faling. I'm not condoning steroid use as some minor indescretion, but it is important to look at the culture of baseball at that time which fostered such rampant steroid use among so many top flight players. You have to wonder why someone so clearly talented would risk his career, not to mention his health, for some perceived gain. Not that I thought that A-rod was some kind of saint, after all he has some sort of relationship that I don't care to examine with the terrifying Madona, and frankly an affair of the mind is more disturbing than the other kind. We all do like to have people we admire, and I must say, I do worry that some boy is going to come forward and say that Sully liked to play co pilot with him. And no doubt somebody has "proof" that A-rod's manager pushed the little boy into the street to garner some good publicity for his client.