downswinging.com - 6/26/2009
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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 ...
He’s Baaaaaaacccck: The Five Reasons A-Rod is Turning a Corner
heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A-Rod can’t return to old form?
nyyankeesrumors.com 6/27/2009 — A-Rod
The Yankees didn’t go by the doctors orders and A-Rod suffered for it. You know Alex likes to play each and everyday, so it was hard for them to take him out of the lineup. His performance would obviously go down coming off major hip surgery. I mean..the guy didn’t get ...
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 ...
My Obligatory Post About A-Rod
boogiedownbaseball.blogspot.com 5/3/2009 — The game today absolutely sucked and I don't really want to write about it. So I figured what better time that now to write about the leaks from Selena Roberts upcoming book about A-Rod. It's not really something I wanted to write about but it's hard not to have an opinion on the matter. So here ...
Subway Series: Part Two —
Bleacher Report - MLB 6/26/2009
Two weeks ago today, the Mets endured one of the toughest regular season losses in franchise history when Luis Castillo dropped a pop-up with two outs, allowing the tying and winning runs to score in the ninth inning for the Yankees.
Everyone was ...
A-Rod passes Reggie with No. 564 —
Major League Baseball News 6/27/2009
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez launched a two-run homer, the 564th of his career, in the eighth inning of Friday's game against the Mets at Citi Field to take sole possession of 11th place on the all-time list, passing Reggie Jackson.
