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Sports Seer Notices Forest, Whiffs on Trees

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Alex Gonzalez, Alex Rodriguez, HardBall Talkin' on Mar 05, 2013

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We don’t get too much PR email spam here at Getting Blanked. Maybe we do but I am just conditioned to ignore it, who knows? Either way, very little PR flacks send unsolicited gets beyond the “who cares?” stage with me.

When we received an email today extolling the virtues of “numerologist Yogi Akal, and his expertise on sports numerology” I sat up and gave notice. Look at that guy! He can see the sporting future? Awesome. Biff Tannen in the building, right?

The good people at his PR firm choose to include a snippet of his sage advice, seeing good, indifferent and/or bad things this month for Lebron James, Tom Brady, and Alex Gonzalez?

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What Alex Rodriguez Can Learn From Chone Figgins

Posted by Scott Lewis under Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees on Jan 31, 2013

There seems to be a prevailing thinking, ok it’s just the New York Daily News, that Alex Rodriguez could potentially walk away from the New York Yankees and baseball. This notion, of course, is founded upon the news that Rodriguez has been implicated in the Miami New Times PED scandal, and the fact that baseball’s active home run leader is recovering from his second major hip surgery.

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Let the Fallout Continue: Alex Rodriguez Issues Statement

Posted by Scott Lewis under Alex Rodriguez, Drugs, News And Notes on Jan 29, 2013

To the surprise of no one, Alex Rodriguez has followed Gio Gonzalez’s lead and issued a statement on the Miami New Times Biogenesis story. Unlike Gonzalez, Rodriguez went through an intermediary to issue his statement.

Joel Sherman of the New York Post on behalf of Alex Rodriguez:

“The news report about a purported relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Anthony Bosch are not true. Alex Rodriguez was not Mr. Bosch’s patient, he was never treated by him and he was never advised by him. The purported documents referenced in the story — at least as they relate to Alex Rodriguez — are not legitimate.”

So there we have it. The “documents” at the center of what appears to be the most amateur case of drug dealing this century, are not legitimate according to camp Rodriguez. Don’t go away fighting, latest chapter in the baseball/PED narrative… just go away.

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PED Bomb Drops Over Miami

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Alex Rodriguez, Drugs, Scorn on Jan 29, 2013

Are we weary of PED talk yet? Judging by the reaction this Miami New Times report, there is a voracious appetite for drug speculation. Depending on your desire for outrage, there is enough in the MNT report to feed an army.

There are names – famous names and familiar names and new names in the baseball drug sphere. There are details of a sloppily-run medical clinic with questionable bookkeeping and details of creams, shots, and significant payments. There is enough to reignite the steroid debate anew.

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Alex Rodriguez Heads Back Under the Knife, Out Until June?

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees, News And Notes on Dec 03, 2012

The Yankees are old. You know this and I know this. We all made the same jokes, as recently as last week when the Yankees were in the process of re-signing Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera – two seriously old dudes. Now Alex Rodriguez might not be as old as those forty-something pitchers but, in baseball years, he is old.

It seems Rodriguez’s wonky hip is still troubling him and requires surgery in January. This latest procedure is sure to cost him the start of his 2013 season, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post.

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Flip Flop Fly Ball: Alex Rodriguez – A Very Fine Baseball Player

Posted by Craig Robinson under Alex Rodriguez, Flip Flop Fly Ball, Graphics, New York Yankees on Oct 24, 2012

Editorial Note: The latest information graphic from the talented Craig Robinson of Flip Flop Fly Ball is the definitive explanation of Alex Rodriguez’s career to date. After a poor playoff performance, I think we’d all do well to appreciate what a fantastic player he’s been throughout his career, even if that declining slugging percentage in recent years might be a bit concerning [D.P.].

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A-Rod Isn’t Going Anywhere

Posted by Dustin Parkes under Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees on Oct 18, 2012

By all accounts – whether they be based in statistics, mechanics or what’s perceived as intangibles – Alex Rodriguez has had a very bad postseason. So bad, in fact, that the only way he could possibly make it worse is by actually continuing to play, at least according to manager Joe Girardi, who has decided to use one of the greatest players we’ll ever have the privilege of seeing as a pinch hitter off the bench primarily against left-handed pitching.

To each their own.

However, Rodriguez’s play combined with the reaction of his manager and his new role on the New York Yankees have conspired to spawn more speculation than the history of real estate in the state of Florida regarding his future in the city that does not sleep.

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