Over A-Rod's protestations most of baseball identified the incident for what it was; scumbag superstar acting like a bratty petulant Little-Leaguer toward a journeyman player who had little opportunity to retaliate.
Around the same time a Toronto paparazzo caught Stray-Rod stepping out with a suspicious looking female escort. One presumes Rodriguez figured Toronto was too small a backwater for anyone to notice him walking around major city thoroughfare coseying up to a flashy woman who was not his wife.
Well A-Rod's at it again, and once again doesn't even have the class to appologize or even plead ignorance of one of baseball's core codes of conduct; baserunners do not, EVER, cross the mound during a game.
The Yankee third baseman even had the utter lack of class to add a cutting and demeaning comment about Oakland's pitcher to the effect that he'd only won a few games in his career so he shouldn't be complaining about anything. One thinks of Salieri and Mozart in "Amadeus"; I'm sure you can figure out which guy is the bratty but talented Mozart in this parable.
A-Rod it would seem is getting more stupid and arrogant as he gets older, the reverse of what's supposed to happen as one ages; becoming more mature, more humble and gracious.
For the full article about the incident (and how A-Rod then started the first around-the-horn triple play in 42 years for the Yanks in the next inning) click here:
http://j.mp/aGdhCu
Watch for a fast ball aimed at Rodriguez's head in the next game or two. I suspect some pitcher somewhere will send a message for all of MLB pitchers over the latest juvenile A-Roddery.
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