heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com - 7/1/2009
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1. Rest Will Do a Body Good Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees brass continued to ignore Dr. Mark Philippon’s post-surgical rehabilitation guidelines through the first six weeks of his faster-than-anticipated return. Though initially instructed to rest once a week during this time period, A-Rod ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finding a way to manage injuries
riveraveblues.com 6/21/2009 — 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.
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Review: 'A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez'
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 5/6/2009 — I used a purple pen to mark up my copy of Selena Roberts' A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez . It seemed fitting, given all the purple prose in the book. And if I had marked every unsourced "fact," anonymous quote, author's attempts to read A-Rod's mind, omission of facts that don't fit her ...
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. ...
How A-Rod’s Adversities Can Produce Positive Results
nyyankeesrumors.com 5/7/2009 — Alex Rodriguez
There’s no question that athletes are psychologically affected by what’s happening around them, both on the field and off. As far as the new bout of bad publicity surrounding A-Rod, I honestly feel that this adversity can have a positive psychological effect on him as a ...
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 ...
MONEY BALL —
NY Post: Sports 7/1/2009
> If only the Yankees could dominate the Red Sox the way they do Sports Illustrated's top-50 list of highest-paid athletes. The Yankees have five of the top 50 - and two in the top 10 -- in all of sports, the most of any team. Alex ...
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