Today in The Journal News

July

Joe Girardi blasted the Yankees during a long meeting after a 7-0 loss against the Red Sox.

Hideki Matsui may need knee surgery. This notebook also has updates on George Steinbrenner, Melky Cabrera, Ian Kennedy, Chris Britton and Jose Tabata.

Sam Borden wonders why Alex Rodriguez always wants more attention.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 9:28 am by Peter Abraham.
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9 Responses to “Today in The Journal News”

Dee July 4th, 2008 at 9:47 am
“Sam Borden wonders why Alex Rodriguez always wants more attention”

My take is because he is insecure and easily manipulated.

Madonna is a marketing genius and a master in manipulating perceptions. This is a classic publicity stunt and she is using Arod who time after time has proven to be not that bright. She has a world tour coming up, what better way to make yourself instantly younger, sexier and more scandalous than to have “an affair” with a much younger dark and handsome MVP.

If you’re seriously having an affair, you don’t have the guy come to your apt building, show up at his games to get photographed, and put your kids in Yankees gear day after day for the world to see. Especially not if you stand to lose $300 million dollars to your husband in divorce court.

Lenny Kravitz, Arod and Madonna share the same manager. Arod is being used and probably being told don’t worry, no publicity is bad publicity, Brad Pitt left his wife and people love him even more, this is how you elevate yourself to a household name. The Rodriguezes are complete novice compared to the Madonnas of the world when it comes to marketing manipulation, they don’t stand a chance.
Yankee Trader July 4th, 2008 at 9:50 am
It’s about time the manager and coaches ripped their play.Why should some of these players care anyway-they’re making more than the managers and coaches combined and they have guaranteed no trade long term contracts. For Pride?

As for Matsui, if the Yankees fall out of by mid August, then have the surgery , get ready for next year, the final year of his contract.

As for A-Rod, do your job that you’re overpaid for. Granted it’s hard to drive in runs when those in front of you swing at bad pitches, hit into double plays.

The league is much more balanced, thanks to George contributing with revenue sharing, and the Yankee farm system not being restocked until 2006.

Lastly, even though you hate to give up on the season, Unless the Yankees take the series from Boston, Tampa Bay and Toronto in the next two weeks, the Steinbrenners should focus on what needs to be done for 2009!
They shoot horses don't they? July 4th, 2008 at 10:18 am
What a Drama QUEEN!

Instead of a hitting coach, he needs a Life Coach!!

When the Yankees traded for him from Texas; I had my doubts but figured that the winning ways of the team would rub off on him and his psyche.

Hasn’t happened.

When he opted out I believed Cashman when he said that if he opted out that he could keep walking. I believe Cash meant what he said.

But then Hank got involved and PERSONALLY got him back in the fold. Bidding against himself for a player that no other team was chasing after. How ludicrous was that!

Someone pointed out last night that they made an “off the field” business decision that they felt would make them more money ala the Giants/Bonds. And maybe the Giants did profit from that alliance financially but how did that work out championship wise??

SEVEN more years of this soap opera??

They need to find a sucker like Texas did when they found the Yankees and trade him for as many MLB ready prospects or established players as possible and get back to winning World Series with team players who want to show up every day.

Let me be clear, he is not the sole problem of this team but trading him would be a good place to begin with the addition by subtraction that this team needs to get on with now.
Toast July 4th, 2008 at 10:18 am
That’s quite the hysterical smear-job on Alex by Mr. Borden.
SJ44 July 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Yeah, its all Arod’s fault.

Check out his numbers as compared to the other guys on the team, then get back to me.

The only thing more tiring than blaming Arod for the Yankees troubles is the belief that if Joe Torre was here, things would be different.

Funny how everybody who has these opinions forget 4-13 in the post-season. Yeah, Torre really got through to these guys.

I guess it was Arod who couldn’t make an easy throw to first base or continually hits into inning ending DP’s.

Yup, its all Arod’s fault.
Elle July 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
A-rod should be more like Jeter? Yeah, right. Be so well liked that the press gives him a pass? That’s like the bully saying, “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!”

Sam Borden can accuse him of being attention-seeking for the opt-out last year—his excuses aside, that was uncalled for, but his personal life shouldn’t be fair game.

Plenty of baseball players have affairs and hang out with famous people, and the press doesn’t hound them. Plenty of people want to see A-rod fail, and these stories deliver off the field what Alex doesn’t give them on the field. It doesn’t make sense to accuse A-rod of seeking attention unless he’s giving interviews about this stuff.
bkight13 July 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
That article is a joke. Alex isn’t the problem. He isn’t a distraction. People don’t realize that selling rumors and innuendo is the only way newspapers can survive anymore. Wow, leaving an apartment building in NY City is so arrogant and naive. The problem is ESPN and all the other rumormongers run with stories like these without any proof. Jeter doesn’t get the stories written about him because he is treated like the stars of the past. See, hear and speak no evil.
Annie Savoy July 4th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
“Sam Borden wonders why Alex Rodriguez always wants more attention”

Sam Borden is one of the very few sportswriters to present the Arod situation for what it is – Arod’s everlasting need for publicity – of any kind.

He has been a detriment and a distraction of his own making to every team he’s been on and NONE of them has won a World Series while he was on those teams. I don’t want to hear about stats either, they are meaningless. The Yankees play for World Series Titles and The Yankees won’t win a Series while he is here either.

He is so busy being “ARod” – the me first, look at me, I’m a great superstar, that he ignores his real job, playing for a baseball TEAM which is paying him millions of dollars and getting no return on their investment.

And it is now obvious that he cares nothing at all about his wife, his marriage or those two innocent little girls.

Just go away, Alex, please and take your sleazy lifestyle with you.
Callie July 5th, 2008 at 7:52 am
yeah, that is a phenominally stupid article, filled with exaggerations and falsehoods.

So now AROD is responsible for hack writers? Good to know.

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