Robbie Alomar

Amanda Coetzer.

 

I said all along I'm not sure if I believe her story. But IF it is all true, I think you are way off base making her out to be the villain here rather than Alomar.

 

Ok, but it's a lawsuit in federal court. It's a matter of public record. I understand, and even sympathize, with with the idea of being cautious, but I don't believe it's because they're waiting for the AP to go off and do more reporting first. ESPN takes stuff all the time and slaps ESPN News Service on the tag line without waiting for the AP. The just don't touch some stuff. The same thing happened with the Michael Vick/Ron Mexico herpes stuff. It was part of a lawsuit. ESPN and SI simply never touched it, and that's essentially what made Will Leitch decide to create Deadspin. He knew there were some stories that were too connected with the networks Golden Goose to touch, even if they had real news value.

 

Why can't there be two villains? If everything in the story is absolutely true and accurately reflects the situation, it reflects poorly on both of their behaviors.

But at the end, I feel much worse for the guy who's trying to deal with having full-blown AIDS than I do with the woman who's seeking $15 million for her emotional distress from having had unprotected sex with the guy.

 

No, what they usually do is take a perfectly good wire story, screw it up, and then use the ESPN News Services tag. I'm biased as a former wire service writer, of course.

 

If he had AIDS and lied about it, thus exposing her to the disease, he is the bad guy. I don't see how that is even a question.

For the third time, this is about more than just emotional distress. This is about the exposure to a deadly disease. To say it is one without the other is to unfairly diminish the accusations.

There could be two villains. Hell, maybe she's making it all up and she is the only villain. My point was that we don't know the truth yet. Attacking the possible victim seems way out of line at this point.

 

The answer is yes. Someone can test negative for several years before it shows up.

And if I ever found out that someone had knowingly exposed me to HIV, I'd probably do something far worse than merely filing a lawsuit. Watch one of your best friends die from AIDS -- this, to be more specific -- and you'll agree.

 

It's very strange on several different levels.

 

No thanks. I've already watched two of my very close friends die of AIDS within weeks of one another.

 

I doubt this comes as a surprise to Bobby Valentine

 

Nice editorializing in the story about her "lavish" home -- I fail to see why her financial status should have any bearing on the suit, good or bad.

 

I think that congress should spend hundreds of millions of dollars creating a commission to bring Alomar and others who are suspected of having AIDS to washington so they can get to the bottom of baseball players with AIDS having sex with women.

And then, they should begin to try and prosecute some of these guys even if they don't have enough evidence or if the evidence is not admissable and then once they lose they should be allowed to forgo the double jeopardy laws and then play a high stakes game of gotcha by making sure that they find one small inaccuracy in testimony and then prosecute for perjury and lying to a grand jury......