A-Rod’s Baseball’s “Mr. Blackwell”?
Posted by Steve L. on January 5th, 2009 · Comments (2)
Beats being “Mr. May!” Via the Post -
There’s no love lost between Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees’ hometown rivals. While watching the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Miami Heat at Miami’s American Airlines Arena recently, he was introduced to June Azoulay, the wife of Madison Square Garden’s official photographer, George Kalinsky. Rodriguez hugged her, but not before tapping her cap with his hand and saying, “It’s a pleasure meeting you, despite the fact that you’re wearing a Mets hat.” A red-faced June said it was a pleasure, too.
Even I have to cut Alex some rope on this one. Clearly, he was just trying to be funny. Amazing what can be attempted…in terms of turning a non-story into a news item…sometimes.
prime example of how everything around him gets blown out of proportion. clearly joking with her, and yet it becomes newsworthy? come on with that!
Pete Abraham might have said it best earlier this offseason, when he blogged, “A-Rod could cure cancer, and the headlines the next day would read, ‘A-Rod Declines to Cure Other Diseases.’”