A-Rod’s Properties and Charity Suggest Some Stinginess - New York Times

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Selena Roberts gets sickening evidence about Arod
Published 12/7/2007 by susan mullen at XM MLB Chat
The information Selena Roberts (NY Times) discovers about Arod is so vile I had to stop reading for periods of time. She checks out his filthy real estate holdings in Tampa and his so-called charities: (NY Times): "Past a psychic’s storefront and coin laundry on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Tampa, Fla., a sign reading “We ♥ Our Residents” is planted beside manicured shrubs and an iron gate with a fresh coat at the entrance of Newport Riverside apartments. The paint is camouflage for the mottled backside of the complex, where an exhausted appliance sits on a porch, cardboard is taped over broken window panes and missing spindles give rickety ...

N.Y. Times: Roberts: A-Rod’s Properties and Charity Suggest Some Stinginess (RR)
Published 12/7/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
N.Y. Times: Roberts: A-Rod’s Properties and Charity Suggest Some Stinginess (RR) Well...at least a former Met is also involved. A-Rod isn’t exactly a slumlord — some renters interviewed at his other properties had milder complaints — but he has become a landlord caricature among dwellers who hold him accountable for, say, the stack of molding mattresses by the dumpster at Newport Villas on MacDill Avenue. A-Rod is the face on their leaky faucets, and yet his name isn’t in the welcome kit. Rodriguez’s brother-in-law, Constantine Scurtis, is the company manager — the ...

The Roundup: Brandon Rush’s Arrest, Salisbury and Lotion, and Maybe a Shirtless Theismann
Published 12/7/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... “That’s when I decided I would have to teach Megan a lesson and give her a taste of her own medicine.” We hope she rots in hell. It’s incredibly disappointing that no charges will be filed. (Blog name too mean to even type) Jayhawks All-American Brandon Rush was arrested Thursday in Kansas after missing a court appearance over parking tickets. (LJ World). In what we can only assume to be her last piece at the paper, Selena Roberts hammers A-Rod for being a slumlord. (NYT) Absolutely priceless photo of Sean Salisbury, the ...

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth
Published 12/7/2007 by Daedalus at Church of Baseball
... If you haven't seen the New York Times article about A Rod's properties, you have to read it. Rodriguez, who opted out of the richest contract in baseball just to make the Bankee$ pay him even more money, is a slimeball, a first class jerk, and I'm sure there is already a place in Hell reserved for him. ...

Alex Rodriguez: Slum Lord?
Published 12/7/2007 by YF at YFSF
... A brutal report on the real estate and charity works of Alex Rodriguez in the NYT this morning. "An obsessive pursuer of cold, hard numbers on and off the bases, with serially disingenuous nods to his ever-challenged image," writes Selena Roberts. ...

A-Rod the Slum Lord?
Published 12/7/2007 by Texas Gal at Center Field
The New York Times has a fascinating, in-depth look at the real estate empire and charities run by Alex Rodriguez. Not surprisingly, for a guy so focused on money, he has a reputation of being stingy (even heartless) and inept. To wit: A-Rod owns 16 apartment complexes around the nation, 6 in the Tampa area- and the Times took a look at one of those, the Newport Riverside apartments in Tampa. ...

A-Rod Is Not A Pleasant Landlord [Alex Rodriguez Slumlord]
Published 12/7/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
... Selena Roberts, who's about to peddle her wares at SI, tells of A-Rod's housing complexes in the Tampa area as cheap, glorified slums. ...

Friday Morning Mets Newsstand
Published 12/7/2007 by Eric Simon <amazinavenue@gmail.com> at Amazin' Avenue: Front Page Posts
Bullet list barrage. The BBWAA has opened its doors to full-time web-based baseball writers, but the results of their nomination approval speak to the hollowness of this gesture. Sixteen of the eighteen nominations were approved, including Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian, Ken Rosenthal, Peter Gammons, Tom Verducci, and others. The two writers who were curiously left unapproved are Rob Neyer and Keith Law, both of ESPN.com. Feel free to draw your own conclusions from this one, but it certainly appears as if Neyer and Law are being blackballed for voicing their objective, conventional wisdom-less opinions over the years. [Baseball Analysts|Baseball Think Factory] ...

ARod Charitable Giving Paltry Compared To His Salary
Published 12/7/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
AROD GIVES 1% OUT OF $368,000 RAISED FOR CHARITY: Selena Roberts of the NEW YORK TIMES has a piece today on the burgeoning financial empire of Alex Rodriguez, who turns out to be quite the landlord (he owns 16 apt. complexes) and charitable giver . Roberts characterizes everyone's favorite muscular she-male lover as " an obsessive pursuer of cold, hard numbers on and off the bases, with serially disingenuous nods to his ever-challenged image. " More: " (Rodriguez) isn't exactly a slumlord ... he has become a landlord caricature among dwellers who hold him accountable for, ...

A-Rod : Landlord Of The Year
Published 12/8/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
Not only has The Third Baseman used his considerable savvy to work his way back into the good graces of the New York Yankees, but his other business interests (exploits?) are every bit as intriguing. From Friday’s New York Times and the SI-bound Selena Roberts. The paint is camouflage for the mottled backside of the complex, where an exhausted appliance sits on a porch, cardboard is taped over broken window panes and missing spindles give rickety banisters the look of a snaggletooth smile.Some residents here tell tales of roaches ...

SIDESHOW ALLEY: BRYANT GUMBEL IS AMAZING...LY TERRIBLE
Published 12/10/2007 by Dr. C at Epic Carnival - Pop Culture, Sports, Celebrities, Babes, Rumors, Innuendo
by Dr. C, Chicago Bull What's been worse this year; the Thursday night schedule of games thus far (outside of GB-DAL), or the three hours every week listening to Bryant Gumbel? After getting bad reviews everywhere in various media, Gumbel admitted he didn't have a good year in the broadcast booth last season. So I ask you, what has changed? He sounds exactly the same; little quips here and there. Why doesn't he listen to his brother call a game? Greg Gumbel sounds excited when calling games. He provides a decent listen, and does a good job overall interacting Dan Dierdorf, which in itself deserves praise. I'm surprised he doesn't wear a ...

Dwight Gooden's sad relapse into drugs/alcohol
Published 3/7/2008 by Ross at Yankee Stadium Insider Blog
This depressing article recently surfaced on nj.com: Darryl Strawberry was standing outside the Mets' clubhouse, pulling hard on a Newport. It's the last remaining vice in a life otherwise devoted to charity; he's created a foundation to help autistic children, the ones he says "have that pain in their eyes that I can relate to." But of all the souls Strawberry has touched, one remains beyond his grasp. It's been a full year since the former slugger spoke to Doc Gooden, and the conversation did not go well. "He just blew me off," Strawberry said through a curl of blue smoke. Not that Darryl was surprised: He'd heard that Gooden was in the middle of a ...