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remindmeofthe) wrote2005-02-20 07:33 pm
remindmeofthe) wrote2005-02-20 07:33 pm
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Your Daily Update. Never thought I'd say this about any chapter of the Everyone Hates A-Rod Saga, but I'm getting kind of sick of this. Again: I wish A-Rod would either comment or publicly refuse to comment. Except that anything he'd say would just start everything all over again. But at least it would be new.
I couldn't find a copy of today's Boston Herald, so I'll just have to work with whatever content they've bothered put online.
One of the sports columnists, Karen Guregian, has weighed in. Her column says, basically, that the entire thing has definitely been about lashing out at A-Rod specifically, and the Sox are kind of leaving the Yankees out of it.
A separate article, which has new pitcher Matt Mantei's take on the whole thing, quotes Mantei as saying that he has no problem with A-Rod, but that the Yankees are evil and everyone hates them.
Now there's some brilliant ironic timing right there.
But seriously? How desperate are the Boston media getting for new material on this when they're bugging Matt Mantei? WTF does Matt Mantei have to do with price of tea in China? At least David Wells, as a former Yankee, was vaguely relevant, but now things are just getting silly. I don't mean to rag on Mantei here, by the way. Just the press.
For completeness's sake, Mantei's comments:
* The Yankees: "You've got to have a clubhouse where everybody gets along and really wants to battle for each other and win. It might be what they're lacking. There are a lot of big egos, a lot of big guys in that clubhouse. Everybody [in the Red Sox clubhouse; clarification mine] is here for the same purpose, to play for each other. They're not here to play for themselves." (This is pretty close to what I've said in the past: The Red Sox are a team. The Yankees are just twenty-five guys who play baseball together. A difference that proved crucial indeed.) "I don't have anybody I dislike over there. [...] I just don't like the Yankees - the name. Everybody in here is like that. Everybody wants to beat the Yankees."
* A-Rod: "I like A-Rod, I think he's a nice guy. He does a lot of good things for the community and children, and stuff like that and I think that's pretty impressive to do what he does." Like I said. Completeness's sake. Note that the shiny new guy is also the only Red Sox player to say anything nice about A-Rod. Just pointing it out. Also giving him points for (again) class, because - he's the only Red Sox player to say anything nice about A-Rodeven if it was vague and embarrassingly squishy. He could've gone along with the rest, and he didn't. Good for him.
I couldn't find a copy of today's Boston Herald, so I'll just have to work with whatever content they've bothered put online.
One of the sports columnists, Karen Guregian, has weighed in. Her column says, basically, that the entire thing has definitely been about lashing out at A-Rod specifically, and the Sox are kind of leaving the Yankees out of it.
A separate article, which has new pitcher Matt Mantei's take on the whole thing, quotes Mantei as saying that he has no problem with A-Rod, but that the Yankees are evil and everyone hates them.
Now there's some brilliant ironic timing right there.
But seriously? How desperate are the Boston media getting for new material on this when they're bugging Matt Mantei? WTF does Matt Mantei have to do with price of tea in China? At least David Wells, as a former Yankee, was vaguely relevant, but now things are just getting silly. I don't mean to rag on Mantei here, by the way. Just the press.
For completeness's sake, Mantei's comments:
* The Yankees: "You've got to have a clubhouse where everybody gets along and really wants to battle for each other and win. It might be what they're lacking. There are a lot of big egos, a lot of big guys in that clubhouse. Everybody [in the Red Sox clubhouse; clarification mine] is here for the same purpose, to play for each other. They're not here to play for themselves." (This is pretty close to what I've said in the past: The Red Sox are a team. The Yankees are just twenty-five guys who play baseball together. A difference that proved crucial indeed.) "I don't have anybody I dislike over there. [...] I just don't like the Yankees - the name. Everybody in here is like that. Everybody wants to beat the Yankees."
* A-Rod: "I like A-Rod, I think he's a nice guy. He does a lot of good things for the community and children, and stuff like that and I think that's pretty impressive to do what he does." Like I said. Completeness's sake. Note that the shiny new guy is also the only Red Sox player to say anything nice about A-Rod. Just pointing it out. Also giving him points for (again) class, because - he's the only Red Sox player to say anything nice about A-Rod