Robbie Alomar

2. Roberto Alomar, former great 2B: Alomar will join the Blue Jays' spring training staff for the first time and coach young infielders. Alomar is showing signs he'd like to return to the game on a permanent basis.


Doesn't sound like a man with AIDS to me.

 

Is the lawsuit the only source of this story? No other corroboration?

Because if that's the case, there's an awful lot of 'if if if if' here. Anyone with $100 bucks can file a lawsuit, doesn't mean it has an ounce of merit. Doesn't mean it doesn't, but loads of lawsuits get tossed every day.

 

Yeah, spnited, but I've thought about it again since I posted that link. I doubt he shows up either way, now. Who wants to bring that drama to camp? He'll probably bow out, and the team will be quietly thankful that he does.

 

What is WITH the AP not having picked this up yet?

 

Or Paul Beeston may just say, "Thanks, but no thanks" which, if this story is true, will likely be the case.

 

I'd be very careful with that story and have someone making a lot more calls if I were running the desk in NYC. It's a one-sided story that declares a) Robbie Alomar has full-blown AIDS and b) was raped by two men in Mexico. That's some pretty serious stuff to be tossing out there.

 

Onus is on the DN, cran. They should be getting attribution if AP runs with it, anyway.

 

The AP has picked it up.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hf6RoLnpsca8WaV2p5Sz8gwd5YEAD969IB586

 

How odd.

It still hasn't shown on my AP Exchange.

 

If somebody was shot at, but the shooter missed, they are no longer in danger of being shot. So, by your reasoning, the intended victim is only suffereing from emotional stress, so it is no big deal, right? The analogy is a bit extreme, but it holds up just fine. She may only be suffering from emotional distress now, but if the accusations are true, he knowingly exposed her to a deadly disease.

The way I read it is that she is accusing Alomar of lying when he said he had been tested and came up clean. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it there.

It is possible that he had tested and come up clean. Again, I said if the accusations are true, he's a dirtbag. If they are not, then she is the dirtbag. You keep trying to poke holes in her story, which makes absolute sense in terms of the overall thread. But that is an entirely different discussion than what you and I started with here.

 

I think if any outlet runs the story, the onus is on each outlet to make the phone calls to verify it.

I still remember AP running an obit of Bob Hope when he hadn't died yet. Pope John Paul II had *three* premature obits. I know an obit is very, very different from alleging that someone has full blown AIDS and was a rape victim, but the discussion each time was that the AP should have verified with at least two sources before running the story.

People need to be extremely cautious here.

On some of the other issues here, if Alomar knowingly subjected the woman to the risk of getting HIV/AIDS, he's an epic asshole to the nth degree. If he simply refused, saying he was tested and came up clean, she still could have either insisted on having protected sex or not having sex at all.

This story seems extremely fishy on all fronts.