Questions for A-Rod?

Andy_Kent....i posted a very similar reaction earlier...same sentiments here for the most part. let's not get all touchy-feely and compliment A-Rod for "admitting" he did it...had it not been revealed, you can't convince me he would be coming out. no way he would have and i'll never be convinced otherwise...and as you said, some vet scribes have gone all mushy on us and are raving about the courageousness of A-Rod for doing this. come on, guys, you're sharper than that...

 

those commending a-rod are suck-ups of the espn/national variety trying to keep setting things as cozy as possible with with a-fraud. plain and simple.

shame on the beat guys for not having each other's backs on the "one-and-done" b.s. why couldn't THEY have followed up each other's questions? what. a. farce.

 

micke77,

Glad to see I'm not alone on this. I was hoping I wasn't going crazy when I found myself getting a little sick to my stomach as I watched this unfold on ESPN with Olny, Kurkjian and then a little while ago, LeBatard and Kornheiser on PTI. Is it just a coincidence that all these guys work for the WWL, who just so happens to have billion$ invested in MLB?

And shockey, I'm right with you on that. I couldn't believe nobody followed up the Selena Roberts question after he squirmed his way out of the first one. And there were plenty of other well-worded questions that he danced around and nobody followed up. I know in that kind of setting, with hundreds of media trying to get a word in, you have a list of questions on your notepad and you know you're only going to get one shot with the mike, but it's our duty as reporters to listen to all of the questions and answers at a press conference and if a clear follow-up is warranted, you ask it and sacrifice one of your own questions. You'll still be able to write your story after 35 minutes of back and forth and you'll not only help yourself, but the reading public.

 

They didn't flood the head table and stand directly behind A-Rod, so my point is moot. Guess I was envisioning something along the lines of the Sprewell press conference after he choked Carlisemo, when a bunch of fellow Warriors like Joe Smith, Chris Webber, Felton Spencer and others literally stood behind Spree and kind of eyeballed the assembled scribes.

He never did apologize properly, publicly, to Roberts, right? Unless I missed it. I just heard him say he was mistaken about a police report that he thought was a "citation."

 

Joe,

You are correct. He never did properly aplogize publicly, and like I said above, nobody pressed him on it after the original question.

 

very few people have the fortitude and the conviction to call it how they see it: A-rod is a liar, a fraud, a thief, and he's still lying, even under the guise of coming clean.

 

I heard a very interesting question that I'm not sure was answered today. Someone should have asked A-Roid what advantage it gave him. How did it make him feel? Did he notice a difference?

Also, if my understanding is correct, he stopped because he was afraid of being caught. Therefore, I would have asked him: "If you knew you wouldn't get caught, would you still be using today?"

Oh, and by the by, I dare someone to ask him if he regrets using them.

 

So long as access continues to trump near-term integrity, especially when ESPN
has tumbled headlong into bed with the psychologically-torturned Richie Rich bitch,
things won't change . . .