A-Rod vs. Selena Roberts

Pushing pub date up a month isn't that big a deal. A lot of late nights for the art department at HarperCollins, but that's it.

 

Meanwhile, A-Rod called Selena Roberts to apologize.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-rodriguez-apology&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

Are they prosecuting Bonds in part because of his fame and fortune? Yes. And that's fine by me. It's the flip side of fame and fortune. When you accept said fame and fortune, you must understand that you give up certain things. Specifically, you realize your actions will be more scrutinized than those of a "normal" citizen. You understand that your misdeeds may be noticed and more subject to prosecution. Such people aren't surrendering rights because nobody has the right to break the law and get away with it.

 

A-Rod calling up Roberts and apologizing is typical b.s move. Too many people, especially in sports, berate or criticize in public and then apologize in private. It's like the newspaper that runs an arrest on 1A and an acquittal or dismissal on 4B. Have seen numerous coaches/managers who rip someone a new one in front of his team, then expresses some regret and offers a handshake in a mostly empty office, and empty moment, day later.

He needs to apologize to her at whatever news conference he has coming up. And even then, yeah, it probably is more strategy and manufactured, but at least he'd be saying the words in the right forum.

 

Nobody sacrifices the Fourth and Fifth and Sixth Amendment protections because they sign a big contract to perform on TV.
Please.

 

Nobody sacrifices the Fourth and Fifth and Sixth Amendment protections because they sign a big contract to perform on TV.
Please.

Agreed. If those rights were violated, then exclude the evidence, etc. In general, zealous prosecution of Bonds isn't a problem for me. If they trample on the Constitution, that's another matter.

 

Bravo, Harvey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/sports/baseball/03araton.html?_r=1&ref=sports
Joe Torre released a book with Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci in which he claimed Rodriguez was known in Yankees circles as A-Fraud, but immediately copped to a co-authorship plea. Peter Gammons allowed Rodriguez to spin the ESPN interview without a peep of challenge on the stalking lie. And Rodriguez required his army of consultants to say he was sorry for having a cousin who injected him with things he didn’t know anything about.
Roberts, conversely, got a big story and, yes, a book deal with her own aggressive reporting and without collaborating with a famous sports celebrity. When she had it nailed, she went right to Rodriguez and looked him in the eye, woman-to-man.

 

The Duke LAX players are still waiting for Selena to look them in the eye and apologize for convicting them in the court of public opinion.