Robbie Alomar

One of the nicest, most down-to-earth people on the tour when I covered the WTA, and well-nigh unthinkable that she would willingly participate in that kind of deception.

 

A) There's nothing in the story that accuses Alomar of knowing he had AIDs and I've never suggested that in the scenario that you conjur up he wouldn't be a bad guy.

B) It's only more than emotional distress if she remains susceptible. I didn't do a lot of extensive research but googled the item below which suggests there's some medical consensus that it's highly unlikely to contract the virus after six months. Since according to the article he was finally tested in January 2006, chances are that she's in the clear.

http://hr.blr.com/news.aspx?id=17810

C) Even if everything she's saying is accurate, she remains an asshole for going to the media with this story instead of just going to court.

Again, Robbie Alomar apparently has full-blown AIDs. The woman has emotional distress from having unprotected sex with him before he was tested.

 

And now she'll never get another date.

 

And where are you seeing that? All the stuff I see quotes her from the lawsuit. The Post story says they tried to speak with her and she decline comment.

 

A) I'm not conjuring anything. That is the accusation, which you dismissed out of hand. Again, you are using misleading language to make your point.

B) So, if he shot at her, but missed, and she is no longer in danger of being hit by the bullet, it's ok, right? I know it's not a perfect analogy.

3) See Double Down's post. Even if she did go to the media (which is very possible), that doesn't mean he was entitled to lie to her and insist he had tested clean when he had not. It wasn't just that he waited too long to be tested. She is accusing him of lying and saying he had been tested when he had not. Even if she comes through this fine physically, that doesn't mean the danger he exposed her to wasn't real.

 

This should also spawn an awful lot of inappropriate fantasy league team names.

 

I'm sure her relationship with Brady Anderson was 100 percent legitimate. ;D

 

Let me get this right:

She doesn't have AIDS. She doesn't have HIV. The kids don't have AIDS or HIV. She lived with him for 2 and 1/2 years after he disclosed to her that he had AIDS and now she's suing?

 

She could get it later. Plus, the emotional suffering. I'm not saying I agree, but that would be her argument.

 

I guess we'll know the truth in short order: http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/articles/2009/01/25/teams_wait_for_a_discount/?page=4

Alomar is supposed to be joining the Blue Jays as a spring training instructor. If he's got full-blown AIDS and is knock-knock-knocking on heaven's door, I doubt he'll be there next week.

 

This is why this smelled fishy from the start.

 

You keep saying Robbie has been accused of knowing he had AIDs but the story doesn't back that up anywhere. Here's our earlier discussion.

Right bad analogy. It means the only damage she has likely suffered is emotional distress/AIDS phobia. Those are serious but not as serious as having HIV or full-blown AIDs, like Alomar.

DoubleDown was right. On second read, it isn't apparent that it was she or her lawyers who went to the media. But nowhere in the story does the suit accuse him of lying about having already tested positive for HIV, either. He could easily have had previous tests that came up negative. This is what the story says:

The doctor told him to have an HIV test and he refused, she says, stating he had been tested and was AIDS-free.