After hearing Alex Rodriguez once again spew his line of rhetoric as a means of clearing up the lies, on top the lies he told before that, I have come to give him one simple message:
"Shut the hell up and just hit."
Its not as if what he is doing now is working. For a man who seemingly has no communication or articulation skills whatsoever, Rodriguez continues to suffer from an insidious case of Foot in Mouth disease. Someone who is attempting to try and do damage control continues to find his foot on the pedal taking a one-way trip right off the road head first straight into the river.
He had his chance in Tampa on a sunny Tuesday afternoon with his first at bat to come through in a clutch spot. To come clean with everything. All of his alleged "monkeys" that he had on his back and nail this situation shut and leave no doors open to interpretation or future investigation. As has been his history since he has become a Yankee, he once again failed in the biggest of spots. What should have been a hanging curveball to be driven out of the park, he would up swinging and missing badly.
As if we haven't seen that before.
In many ways, it was typical Alex.
Does he really believe we are all fools here? Is that what he paid his new public relations firm for several days ago? For this? Maybe he is just such a pathological liar that he actually believes what he is saying and he is simply living a lie.
You don’t believe that? Then ask yourself why each story he has given continues to have holes the size of bullets leaking from it.
Follow this timeline: Rodriguez went from never taking steroids or being tempted, to getting caught with a failed drug test (that he didn’t know about until five years later) and saying that he did not know what he was taking and how he was doing it, to now explaining how he got the stuff and how he was administering.
Huh?
He said that there was "culture" in the Texas Rangers clubhouse and that he was curious. Suddenly, rather than settling on someone trained with information on these drugs, he settled on "his cousin", who does not have a name and was recently discovered like this was Star Search. To get the drugs, "his cousin" went to the Dominican Republic to buy it over the counter and smuggled it back to the United States illegally. On top of it, he decided not to have the drug checked out by any doctor to see if it what the effects were and simply going on word of mouth.
If that wasn’t bad enough, this "cousin", (not revealing to anyone if he was a prescribed doctor) had Rodriguez’s approval to use a needle and shoot him in the rear with this drug not knowing if it worked not once or twice, but twice a month for six months over a course of three years. That is a grand total of 36 times!
Are you serious?
Ask yourself this: Would you willingly take a needle in your rear even once not knowing what it is, what it does, and from someone not certified to do it? Yet doing it over and over and over again?
He didn’t think he was doing anything wrong, yet decided not to tell anyone about it or didn’t know if it worked.
He didn’t know if the injections were working, so he kept on doing. Continuing to put himself at risk each time he took it. No idiot would be dumb enough to potentially risk fatal consequences by doing such a thing.
If you really believe Rodriguez then you have to then believe this entire tree of logic. It reeked and reeks of such phoniness (much like the fake tears he displayed) it was ridiculous.
Rodriguez’s response, "I knew it wasn’t Tic Tacs."
I bet.
As Allen Iverson did with the term "practice" in 2002, John McCain did with the term "my friends" during his presidential campaign in 2008, ARod decided to introduce the world to a new term set to sweep the nation and become the rallying cry for any person under the age of 28 to use:
"Young and Stupid."
For the next few years, that is going to be my excuse for any of my wrongdoing. I will simply say I was dumb, young and stupid and expect the world forgive me. Problem is, I’m not going out trying to hit .315, hit 40 homers and drive in 120 runs.
He couldn’t come up with any real answers because he had none. And the real truth would not be revealed by him anyway. Besides, even if you got the "real story", how much validity would you put in that anyway? His batting average in truth telling was nearly mirroring his batting average as a Yankee in October.
Even worse, being forced to show solidarity for this mentally weak character, a large contingent of Yankee players headed by Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and newcomers Mark Texieira, CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett had to stand behind him in support. It was either do it, or end up becoming a future back page for not doing it and distancing one’s self away from the teams biggest headline maker and drama queen.
Who wants to be a part of that show?
If given complete immunity, they would all tell you that they are tired of the soap opera and the cloud that hovers over this team daily when the latest ARod drama surfaces. For all of his talents, he is exhausting and all one has to do is read Joe Torre and Tom Verducci’s book The Yankee Years for understanding.
Now the Yankees are required to nurture him going forward this season and beyond like a little baby because Rodriguez is incapable of his own crisis management.
Management must put on a good face. The players must put on a good face. The YES Network must put on a good face.
Everyone.
Why? Because if the Yankees don’t, they risk this malignant virus on the roster, signed for the next nine years at just over $247 million, who just happens to be their best player, from sinking their entire season. They must do everything possible to risk having their investment go down the toilet.
It is as if the season has already started and the Yankees and Rodriguez are already behind.
The player with the million-dollar talent and the ten-cent head just can’t seem to get out of his own way. His only way out of this is to hit and hit plenty.
While were at it, staple your lips shut. You and the team will be better off for it.
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