A-Rod speaks up while running bases and Blue Jays call foul

[MaineDem]

Whatever Alex Rodriguez said, it sure didn't go over well with the Blue Jays. It did, however, help the New York Yankees snap a five-game losing streak.

Rodriguez distracted Toronto third baseman Howie Clark by shouting at him on a key popup in the ninth inning, touching off arguments all over the field, and the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 10-5 Wednesday night.

"I just said, 'Hah!' That's it,'' Rodriguez said. "Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.''

"I don't know what my intention was,'' he said. "I didn't say, 'I got it' or anything like that.''

Clark claimed Rodriguez called for the ball.

...

Replays showed Rodriguez shouting something, and Clark backed off at the last second. McDonald was only a few steps behind Clark, but couldn't make the catch and ball dropped for an RBI single.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18961760/

The Yanks are desperate.

[Forkboy]

1. I hate the Yankees but that's pretty funny.

I never even saw that work in Little League. :)

[LisaM]

2. I didn't realize he'd become unsportsmanlike on the field

on top of all his other problems.

[AllieB]

3. Remember when he slapped the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove?

A-Rod has always played dirty. I'm a fair-weather Red Sox fan, and I respect the Yankees' talent, but A-Rod is a cheater!

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. except the right call was made when he slapped the ball...

this time he got away scot-free...he'd better watch out next time the Yankees play the Jays

[rinsd]

8. I am not aware of any rule that prevents a player from yelling.

As long as Arod didn't touch the guy, its a legal play.

[LisaM]

5. Oh, I'd forgotten about that

Junior High School stuff.

[rinsd]

7. Arod has always played rough.

[AllieB]

16. Not rough. Dirty.

There have been scrappy Yankees in the past. A-Rod is a punk and plays dirty. Jeter, Torre, and most of the rest of the team are class acts.

[rinsd]

17. I have no problem with dirty players. I was baptized a Yankees fan in the Bronx Zoo era

My only problem with Joe Torre being a class act is he resufses to allow his pitchers to defend his players. A trend that has been even more apparent since Clemens left.

[AllieB]

19. If the Yankees continue to play like crap

do you think Torre or Cashman will go? Steinbrenner HAS to fire someone!

[rinsd]

20. I think any firing will be at the end of the season.

But Cashman is on the hot seat. He fought for sole control and won it. Big Stein is going to hold that over him.

[nickgutierrez]

6. The reaction to this is ridiculous.

This happens on every single popup in high school. You're trying to tell me that big-leaguers don't do this? And if you're the third baseman, shouldn't you know what your shortstop's voice sounds like?

Or does that make too much sense?

[LisaM]

9. Exactly. In high school.

A-Rod is into his 30's by now.

I know that there are two schools of thoughts on this - mine is, win the game with your play, don't play dirty, don't (for lack of a better phrase) "try to get into the other guy's head". There's another school of thought that lauds what's termed gamesmanship. I prefer watching people win with skill, talent, team play, being fit, being well coached, etc. I don't really pay to watch people trash talk or try to trick other players. That's for kids. A-Rod is supposedly a professional, but he's beginning to look like a really severe case of arrested development.

[Bluebear]

11. Or "Stray-Rod"

May 30, 2007 -- Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez stepped up to the plate with a mysterious, busty blonde in Toronto, as these intimate, exclusive photos reveal.

The cozy duo dined with two pals at a pricey steakhouse late Sunday night, then headed to a glitzy strip club before making their way to his hotel, where the pair ducked into an elevator and headed upstairs just after midnight.

Cynthia Rodriguez - A-Rod's wife and mother of their 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Natasha - was nowhere to be seen during the slugger's big night out on the town, which occurred the evening before the last-place Bronx Bombers' pathetic 7-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.

And it came as Rodriguez took a room at Toronto's Four Seasons hotel - down the street from the Park Hyatt, where most, if not all of his Yankee teammates and coaches are staying during a three-game stint that ends tonight.

"No comment," Rodriguez said when The Post asked him about his north-of-the-border jaunt with the blonde. ....

We have a little tip for A-Rod, the next time you go out on the town; it might be a good idea to stay at the team's hotel rather than a separate one. It might attract a little less attention.

[LisaM]

13. Is that Morgana? She must be a little long in the tooth by now!

But it looks like her.

[Bluebear]

10. "It was a lowlife action that wouldn't be tolerated in little league."

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_11554.aspx

[nickgutierrez]

12. Please.

If Jeter does this, the media praises him for the "heads-up play" from the captain. Since it's the media enemy A-Rod, he's vilified.

I don't buy that at all.

[Forkboy]

14. They should have played Little League here...we did it on every single play.

We should have been called The Bastard Squad,but I don't think the town wanted that name used. :)

[rinsd]

18. Whiny Canadians.....

[Tektonik]

15. A-rod did nothing wrong

He's not a dirty player by any means, and kudos to him for legally helping his team to win, although he's definitely going to get beaned next time they face the Jays.

[Bluebear]

22. 'kudos to him for legally helping his team to win' - your sports ethics are questionable too

No offense.

[rep the dems]

25. If Mike Lowell did the same thing to A-Rod, would you feel the same? nt

[Bluebear]

26. Lowell didn't. nt

[AllieB]

27. And wouldn't. He has no history of dirty play.

Pay-Rod does.

[bigwillq]

21. And the big deal is what?

I don't see it.


:eyes:

Leave my future husband alone.

[genie_weenie]

23. Dirty play is the best. I love when players

try and break the wrists of other players or throw a body block while sliding into second. I just wonder why A Rod hasn't spiked players as they slide into third or spit on players to throw off their concetration. Spitting on players is a good move!

[rep the dems]

24. Frankly my friends, who gives a shit?

I'd probably be frustrated if that happened to my team (although Helms would probably screw it up anyway) but A-Rod's just trying to score a run. He's trying to WIN.

When I went to baseball camp a few years ago, a college player told us about a player who was on 3rd base and was waiting to tag up on a deep fly ball. He wasn't watching the ball, just waiting for the 3rd base coach to say go. The 3rd basemen noticed this, and yelled "GO!" before the ball was caught. The runner took off early, double play. Doing what you can to hurt your opponents is part of the game.

[trumad]

28. What a bunch of whiny fucks---and that includes people in this thread

It didn't break the rules and it worked. Period!