A-Roid due to tell more lies tomorrow

January 16, 2009

A-Roid is scheduled to have a press conference tomorrow. From CBS:

JOE GIARDI, Manager of the New York Yankees, to speak with Rodriguez before the event "just to look him in the eyes and see how he's doing.":

I don't think it's necessary in my eyes that he answer every detail.

I don't think it's window dressing. I think it's out of their hearts and their feelings for Alex and them wanting to stand behind him and help him through this situation.

It's going to be different, I'm sure, just because of the magnitude of who Alex is. I think the record that he's chasing has something to do with it, too. Would he like to probably put it behind him tomorrow? Yes. But I don't think that's realistic.

His truth telling squad:

• Agent Scott Boras and his staff, manager Guy Oseary.
• William Morris Agency and publicist Richard Rubenstein.
• James E. Sharp, a lawyer who represented Pettitte and Sammy Sosa before Congress.
• Outside Eyes, a media strategy and crisis management company based in Newport Beach, California.

ANDY PETTITTE (admitted using to Human Growth Hormone last year):

It's part of playing here. Everything is somewhat magnified to a certain degree being here, and just some things you've got to deal with.

2003 Texas Ranger teammate of A-Roid's, MARK TEIXEIRA:

When I see him tomorrow, I'm going to give him a big hug and just tell him I'm there for him. I'm going to be a teammate and a friend if he needs one.

A lot of people think that, you know, this is going to tear the team apart. I think it's going to bring the team together.

(2-7) SI broke the story. (2-9) A-roid spoke with ESPN's Peter Gammons (Video & text) where he admitted to using banned drugs while playing for Texas from 2001-03, but did not come clean on the details such as: what he used, how it was administered, how often he used them, who supplied them and whether he used them off season too. Don't exactly expect him too.

A-ROID is a cheater and liar. He may not have done anything in baseball as far as against the rules but obtaining and using the substances with a doctor's prescription is. Will he be punished inside or outside baseball?

AROID: It didn't matter what lawyers said or whatever, I was going to get it all out.

He wasn't going to "get it all out" until he was caught. And what now? He will not lose any endorsements, his salary is guaranteed and there is nothing in place at present to take away his records. And what type of shaming did he get as opposed to Michael Phelps who used a decidedly NON-performance enhancing drug and had already won his gold medals.

Mr HANK AARON worked had for every one of his homers only to see cheaters pass him by while denying they were cheating. ERNIE BANKS, who started out in the Negro league, said "black-eyed peas" gave him the strength to play at his level of excellence. RON SANTO, who played with diabetes and never told anyone until he was out of the game because he didn't want to lose his job or get special treatment, has still not been enshrined in Cooperstown, even though he was the best third baseman of his era (all time greatest 3rd baseman in my mind) and his numbers are right there with Brooks Robinson. JOE MORGAN is a selfish pig as is the rest of the Veteran Committee for not voting anyone in from their eras.

What are the chances that AROID won't be enshrined in the Hall of Fame?

12-7-07 60 Minutes interview denying it

2-9-09 Interview with Peter Gammons (text)
2-9-09 Interview with Gammons (video)
2-9-09 Calls SI writer a liar

2-17-09 Press conference (text)
2-17-09 Press conference (video)