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Eh, I’m gonna go easy on this dude, actually, despite the fact that he voluntarily put his penis inside Madonna recently.
Here’s Alex Rodriguez at a press conference, explaining how he wound up testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.
I’ll tell you what strikes me about this: I think he wrote damn near every word of this statement himself. It’s not polished, it’s not perfect, there’s too much discussion of his cousin, etc, etc. It’s not something that a superstar athlete’s publicist would write. I think he insisted on writing this himself and reading his own words, not something that a professional had drafted for him. He wins a lot of points in my book for that.
Around the 4:25 mark, he says, “…and to my teammates,” and then pauses for 37 seconds before directly addressing Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada, all sitting in the front row. “Thank you,” he tells him quietly. It’s sincere.
A-Rod comes out on top here, I think, which is something he probably never got to do with Madonna.
i totally agree with this. even though he made a mistake, i believed he was sincere as well. go a-rod
Wow. He showed a slight taint of sincerity. Quite unlike his Peter Gammons interview, which sounded rehearsed and fake. A-Roid has spent so many years trying to be everything for everyone, that he no longer understands what true sincerity means. Cmon…he never felt pressure to perform in Seattle? Or the pressure of playing for big money in Texas disappeared when he joined the New York Yankees, an organization known for their relaxed attitude regarding performance on the field? He is not believable. Let him finish his career, and simply go away forever.