Say it Ain't So, Alex

[Guest Edgy DC]

]ARod is singled out all the time, every day.

You really think MLB, by "cautioning" Rodriguez, is enforcing a rule here where they wouldn't if it was Chone Figgins?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I don't. Alex Rodriguez is more likely to be recognized in a gambling den (or anywhere else) than Chone Figgins, but I think that any player would get the same treatment (they certainly should) from MLB, although without the attention from the New York Post.

[metsmarathon]

wasn't there a college hoops coach who was basically ousted from the NCAA for participating in a relatively low-stakes march madness bracket?

in college, athletes are instructed thou shalt not gamble. that includes teensy tiny bets on the final four, football pools, and the like, and obviously goes onward and upward to include the dogs, horces, and underground illegal poker games that routinely get busted up by police stings.

i don't imagine a good reason why major league baseball should be any less stringent.

it would be an absurd news story if he were busted for playing rotisserie baseball with his buddies for a $300 pot.

the fact that he is engaged in illegal highstakes gambling with characters, by definition, of shady origin only serves to make what could have been a nonstory into a big story. a BIG story.

you could argue, what's the harm in letting a division three cross country runner at a small new jersey engineering college put down a five-spot picking his final four. but surely you can see the harm in gambling illegally, with shady characters, for large sums of money.

the mere suggestion of impropriety is the reason behind the gambling prohibition in major league baseball, and other major professional sports. and what alex is alleged of doing goes far far beyond the mere suggestion of impropriety. its practically screaming "shenanigans!"

and so ya know, i'm not an arod hater. nor, necessarily, a yankee hater.

[Guest Edgy DC]

the first step is admitting you're a numbers runner

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

KC wrote: So Rodriguez has a bigger staff than Jeter, big deal. You let your Cubs write to MFY's? Mrs. Fields' stock plummets ... details at eleven.

Trust me - those boys knew that I disapproved of their choices.

[Centerfield]

I got no problem with A-Rod playing Poker.

I'd rather have him do that than electrocute his nephews.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Centerfield wrote: I got no problem with A-Rod playing Poker. I'd rather have him do that than electrocute his nephews.

On that note, do we still have your rant on Mariano Rivera? You totally hit the nail on the head with that one.

[Valadius]

Fuck A-Rod.

[Elster88]

Valadius wrote: Fuck A-Rod.

There it is. My point exactly.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Yeah I meant 24 and 1

And no, it really doesn't come out often these days (no more Phillips to kick around anymore) but it does get listed in people's top "Worst Decisions In Met History" lists

But my point is, he is getting 50/50 split here in the media/fans and sometimes its more the media trying to ask why people don't like him

When if he was a Met it would be completely the opposite where he really would be getting the Bobby Bonilla/Carlos Beltran treatment from fans and media, the same people who are telling the fans to get off ARod's back

Steve

[Guest old original jb]

http://www.warhols.com/tomlseaver.jpg All Hail the Sacred Seaver Post!

As much as I can't stand the Yankees, I just can't muster even an iota of feeling one way or the other about PayRod or anything he does. Play poker. Don't play poker.

He could run through the streets in a mumu and fling hot pastrami at donut vendors and I still wouldn't have much of a response (other than grief at the waste of pastrami).

It's like he's some kind of cipher or something.

Weird.

[Guest holychicken]

HAIL!

[metirish]

Now that was not a waste of the Sacred Seaver post,

Hail

[Guest Edgy DC]

Much hailing.

[Centerfield]

Hail!

(How is it possible that jb only has 41 posts?)

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Hail jb!

[Elster88]

HAIL

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Elster - "I still don't see why the Post chose to put a picture of ARod and poker chips on their front page. I guess so internet message boards would have something to talk about."

Well, it seems to be working.

A-Rod should understand the perception that his actions would evoke. Unfortunately, athletic ability and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand. I'm not saying A-Rod isn't intelligent, but a little common sense could have spared him a great deal of grief.

[Elster88]

Rockin' Doc wrote: A-Rod should understand the perception that his actions would evoke. Unfortunately, athletic ability and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand. I'm not saying A-Rod isn't intelligent, but a little common sense could have spared him a great deal of grief.

I'm sure he realized "I shouldn't be doing this" as he made his way into a dusty basement smelling of urine with a fistful of hundreds. He probably has the common sense and just chose to ignore it.