Not so nice when it happens to you, is it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/sports/baseball/08yankees.html?em

I was very happy to watch the 15th inning of the Yankee/Red Sox game. It was wonderful to see A-rod, baseball's most despised player, hitting a game ending home run against the RED SOX. So much for not coming through in the clutch. I was most interested to see the reaction in the press when it was leaked that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez took steriods. There was much whining about how could this leak have taken place, etc. And then the story died - no further word about Big Poppy and Manny. All those journalists who delighted in trashing A-rod were quite muffled about Big P and Manny, who was no model citizen to begin with. Even though I took some grim satisfaction in seeing Big P and Manny twist in the wind, it is really creepy that these so called confidential drug tests keep getting leaked.

Who is lower?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/leno-told-similar-joke-ab_n_215261.html

Apparently, during the campaign Jay Leno made a joke about John Edwards impregnating Bristol Palin. There was no outrage from Mistress Sarah or anyone else for that matter. So why the fury over A-rod? Is it anti Hispanic wrath stirred up by the Sotomayor nomination, or just general anti Hispanic sentiments. In the who is lower category, you have on one side a man who runs as a progressive for president and could have possibly gotten the nomination for president, who at the same time was cheating on his cancer stricken wife vs A-rod. Now A-rod has certainly had a complicated personal and professional life, but in terms of who is more morally bankrupt, there is no contest. Cheater on cancer patient wife with one deceased son and three children old enough to be her father and person who might have torpedeod the dems, thereby helping elect John McNut and Mistress Sarah who would have brought on the end of western civilization trumps anything that A-rod has ever even been accused of doing.

God bless the mute button

I had the Today show on to find out the weather. I'm not really sure why because they drone on so much that I tune out and never actually find out what the weather is supposed to be like. I was wandering in and out of the kitchen, but it seemed to me that the frightening Sarah P. was on the show for about half an hour. No doubt she was whining about David Letterman being so mean and perhaps a sexual deviant for his joke about her excellent daughter, but I don't know because when I hear her voice my hand automatically hits the mute button. I am not sure why they think she is worthy of so much morning air time, but after all this is the same Matt Lauer who conducted one of my favorite interviews. Matt to a father who's son was attacked by an alligator - When did you realize that your son was in trouble? Dad - Uhh I guess when I saw the alligator eating him. Now that is news. The press is being very tisk tisk about the joke, which is pretty ironic considering they thought it was hilarious when people said horrible things about Chelsea Clinton. I don't condone kid bashing and do feel that politician's children should be left alone, but Mistress Sarah used her children as props throughout the campaign, and it is somewhat disingenous to get so worked up about a tasteless joke. What would you rather be accused of - having sex with A-rod or being the love child of Hillary and Janet Reno?

The anti-christ out in public

It has been a while since I wrote a post, but my day job seems to have intervened. But to show how silly/superficial/etc. this is an A-ROD post. I think is pretty funny that it is an A-rod defense that is getting my fingers moving over the keys again. For some reason, my husband had the ghastly Morning Joe show on this morning. I heard just a snippet, but the gums were flapping about Letterman's Top Ten List about the Palin's. What he found most offensive was the joke about Bristol being impregnated by A-rod in the middle of Yankee Stadium. Joe S. said something along the lines of "Can you imagine...A-rod...eeeshhh" he said it in the way that indicated that the most insulting part of joke was that it was A-rod impregnating her. Now call me crazy, but frankly, there are many more repulsive figures that are deeply disturbing to think about having sex or impregnating someone than Alex Rodriguez, like Joe Scarborough for starters. I was out with my my daughter, son in law and husband this past weekend and was fighting for a table in the basement, yes the basement, of the Shake Shack on the Upper West Side, and who was sitting at a table with a man and his kid, but A-rod himself. We called my daughter and at first she didn't believe us. He didn't emanate I am a star I am a star...look at me. In fact few dinners seem to know who he was. Some geeky boys were trying to find chairs, and actually went up and asked if the could take the extra with no sign of recognition. There was a TV in the basement and they had a clip about the Yankees, with some footage of him, and he just glanced at it but did no room check to see if others had noticed. It is just pretty lame that A-rod continues to be synonymous with the anti-Christ. But I guess he is good company, because many seem to think it could be Barack.

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.