Quote:
Originally Posted by thomamon
That is ******ed to throw a tantrum like that for something as trivial as that. Players run across the mound all the time, he probably wasn't even thinking about it. A-Rod may be no angel, but he needs to mature a bit.
|
No, no, think about it. A-Rod, the current god of baseball. Dallas Braden [who?] a struggling young pitcher [who seems to be getting better each year, though]. Superstar walks [jogs] over your place of business when a few steps in either direction could take him around it. Do you blame Braden for thinking that A-Rod's thinking that his stuff don't stink?
Not that A-Rod should be shy and retiring, walking on eggshells to apologize for his success and wealth, but do you think the guy could spare a thought? Let me say it this way. If I were back pitching in my school days and somebody had done that to me, he'd be sitting on his backside in the batters box sometime soon, that's for sure.
The follow-up article that I read today said that all of the Yankees supported A-Rod, of course, and considered it to be a joke [which is itself a bit offensive]. That's natural. However, the same article went on to say that everyone else in baseball that the writer(s) had interviewed agreed with Braden's viewpoint [although maybe not with his overreaction after the game].