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Trot Nixon=LOVE.

In which Trot reacts to the crap Princess A-Rod was spewing in this article, calls A-Rod a clown (okay, not so much in this article, but see below), and points out that loving your kids doesn't make you a bad baseball player.

I'm not sure which of these two quotes I love more:

"[...] when people ask me about the Yankees, I tell them about (Derek) Jeter and Bernie Williams and (Jorge) Posada. I don't tell them about Rodriguez. ... He can't stand up to Jeter in my book or Bernie Williams or Posada." (This after he makes it clear that he respects A-Rod's abilities as a ballplayer, because our boy Trot? He has some class.)

"Like Rodriguez says, his running stairs at 6 in the morning while I'm sleeping and taking my kids to school. I'm like, well I'm not a deadbeat dad, Alex. [...] He's got a kid now, too, so I guess he'll have his limo driver take her to school." (Trot has read my mind here, because after I read that choice remark from A-Rod I was all, "Damn, I feel sorry for his kid." On the other hand, if that guy's your father, maybe minimal involvement is just as well.)

LOVE.

And that's not all! The Boston Herald's version of this story, which I read with delight this morning at work, adds these remarks:

On A-Rod declaring that, if he had the chance to do Game Six over again, he'd plow Arroyo over: "He said the next time, he's gonna run him over. It's like, okay. You're a clown." A CLOWN. LOVE.

"He said he's doing all this while six hundred players are still in their bed [sic, or one big bed]. [...] I work out for three hours in the weight room, and I hit for another two or three hours (later in the day [Herald's clarification]}. What makes you so much better?"

"Some of his remarks, you don't see Jeter doing that stuff. Bernie, Jeter, (Jorge) Posada, they just go, do their work, show up at spring training, and go get it done every year." This is because Jeter also has class, where A-Rod wouldn't know class if it shoved a catcher's mitt in his face. Just in case I need to point that out.

The Herald also offered this context for the first quote above, which comes at the end of the paragraph: "I don't sit there and envy him. I don't hate him. There's a lot of people out there that I need to earn their respect. That's the way I've done things. I felt when I came into professional baseball, I had to earn people's respect, players' respect in this game. He's done some great things on the field, He's one of the best baseball players in the game, and probably will be when it's all said and done. But when people ask me about the Yankees, I tell them about Jeter and Bernie Williams and Posada. I don't tell them about Rodriguez."

Did I mention the part where I love Trot?

I cannot wait to see the Princess respond to this. Because you know he will. He hasn't got it in him to understand when he has been owned.

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Oh, yeah, and this week's issue of Sports Weekly, which comes every Wednesday with the big pile of out-of-state papers, has not one, but two big ol' pictures of the Princess on the cover, one from a Yankee at-bat and one as a rookie. I was counting the papers, and I was not expecting it and it scared me, and I did the dance of Oh My God Ew until I felt better.

That's not really the point, though. The point is that, according to the cover, the big story this week is basically a rehash of How A-Rod Became A Star. (I may have to buy this, out of sheer curiosity. And I will be the only one, because no one ever buys Sports Weekly at our store. Why they keep sending us eighty-seven copies every week is beyond me.)

What I don't understand: Why hasn't anyone told Sports Weekly that no one really, honestly gives a shit about A-Rod anymore? (Aside from me, yes, but I'm weird like that.) He has ceased to be the guy everyone likes. Now he's the guy everyone makes fun of. Where is the interest in a story that celebrates his career? You are a year too late, Sports Weekly. You lose.

I am talking way too damn much about A-Rod lately. God, I need baseball to start.

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I just answered the best survey question ever. Ther survey itself, of the touch telephone variety, was pretty stupid, but the last question was great.

It started: "This question is of a sensitive nature to some." But blahblahblahdemographicscakes.

"If you are Latino-American, Middle Eastern-American, abunchofotherstuff-American, press one." Yay to be super extra PC and not make "Caucasian" the first option, even though this is a regional survey and Maine is the whitest state in the nation, so chances are you'd be saving the survee a few seconds. But anyway.
"If you are African-American, press two.
If you are white [emphasis mine], press three."

That's right. They go to all this trouble not to offend minorities, and then instead of "Caucasian," they say "WHITE."

I don't think I even need to comment. I think that mocks itself.