riveraveblues.com - 6/21/2009
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Baseball players are seemingly a stubborn lot. They like to play, and most of them outside of Carl Pavano will play through just about anything. Sore ankles, sore knees, sore arms, sore backs. If it ain’t broken, pencil ‘em in.
That’s great for a team’s character. ...
More rest planned for A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 6/22/2009 — The more I think about this weekend’s A-Rod injury flap, the more I wonder how the Yankees could get this one so wrong. Just two months removed from a major labrum procedure, Joe Girardi penciled A-Rod into the lineup for 38 straight games. He ...
All the best third basemen have daddy issues
riveraveblues.com 6/6/2009 — When Selena Roberts broke the story in February that A-Rod was one of the 104 names on the supposedly anonymous list of steroid users, we quickly learned that she did so while in the process of researching a book about the Yanks’ enigmatic ...
There's a 13-year-old clone of Alex Rodriguez out there?
sports.yahoo.com 7/3/2009 — So if you thought all the hype over 16-year-old Bryce Harper was a case of too much, too soon well then does the New York Daily News have a premature prospect story for you! Thursday's editions of the paper carried an article on the big league ...
MJ, A-Rod’s Hip, and the Subway Series
yanksgoyard.com 6/27/2009 — What’s up Yanks Go Yard faithful? I have a lot to get to so I’m just going to dive into some news and notes:
First, let me say that I am not superstitious and I don’t believe in things like fate and destiny, but it is an awful coincidence that we lost Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, and Michael ...
Set Expectations for A-Rod at Wait-and-See
nybaseballdigest.com 6/22/2009 — There is much hand-wringing over Alex Rodriguez, his .213/.371/.456 batting line, and the eight-plus years remaining on his contract. It is understandable, of course: for the kind of money the Yankees are paying A-Rod, more was expected. These are supposed to be the seasons that justify the ...
That Didn't Take Long
fackyouk.blogspot.com 6/26/2009 — After Alex Rodriguez was taken out of the line up for two days in Florida last weekend, the Yankees' plan was to rest him once a week. How quickly things change : Alex Rodriguez should be in the lineup this weekend when the Yankees play their first games at the Mets' new Citi Field. "It's our ...
Too Early for Olney to Say A-Rod is Done
downswinging.com 6/26/2009 — Yesterday, the topic of ESPN’s Buster Olney’s blog/column was A-Rod and his struggles since returning from surgery. Olney said that A-Rod has been taking longer to reach first base, has been fielding poorly and isn’t catching up to fastballs. True, at the time Olney was ...
Time to talk A-Rod
pinstripealley.com 5/7/2009 —
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Let's talk A-Rod. With Alex Rodriguez' return to the New York Yankees lineup possible Friday (more ...
It’s Not All About A-Rod in 2009
nyyankeesrumors.com 5/21/2009 — Alex Rodriguez Since A-Rod first joined the Yankees in 2004, he’s been in the limelight constantly, inadvertently taking attention away from the team. Both on the field and off, A-Rod’s adventures seemed to take on more life than the entire team had possessed for most of the past five seasons. ...
Olney’s premature obituary for A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 6/26/2009 — Yesterday, Buster Olney wrote a premature obituary of sorts for A-Rod . Noting that A-Rod ’s numbers are way down this year, Olney speculated that the post-steroid-confession, post-surgery A-Rod isn’t anything close to the late-20’s ...
A-Rod won't need to request future rest —
Major League Baseball News 6/21/2009
It's been a commotion-filled two days for Yankees manager Joe Girardi, thanks to what he thought was a minor issue. Had the Yankees simply followed doctor's orders, Alex Rodriguez would have rested seven or eight times by now. Regardless, Rodriguez ...
