Sunday, February 22, 2009

Donnie Baseball: Leave A-Rod Alone

From Joel Sherman:
"Honestly, I am getting tired of guys beating up on him," Mattingly said when reached by phone in Arizona yesterday. "I see [White Sox manager] Ozzie Guillen acting like a buddy of his and trashing him. Here is how I feel: He did something wrong. He admitted [he used steroids from 2001-03], now let's move on. The guy works hard. He is a good teammate. ... He wants to be great. I have no problem with that."

"I see all this talk about how that he was putting on an act when he teared up when mentioning his teammates," Mattingly said of the Tuesday press conference. "I'm sure it was huge for him to have [Derek] Jeter and [Jorge] Posada there. It was probably hard to express. Now we are going to say his pause was too long. Come on. I am sure everything is not perfect, but this guy has been in the [drug-testing] system for four years and he has not come up positive and he was won two MVPs.

"Time to say the past is the past. He is just too easy of a target. Let everyone jump on the bandwagon, I want to be on the other side of the bash Alex thing."

While I understand why people are angry, and why people think he's a phony, it is time to move on.

12 Comments:

Anonymous said...

I couldn't agree more.

Donnie is still a class act.

Anonymous said...

Amen to that.

Anonymous said...

U have to move on with this. The story is realy getting old. Everyone knows he took steroids so the media should just drop it.

Rich said...

Love it.

Mattingly probably should have been the Yankees' manager (I was wrong).

Anonymous said...

I hope Don told the same message to that turncoat Joe Torre, who has been killing A-Rod lately.

Greg Cohen said...

Anon,

Have you read Torre's book?

Anonymous said...

I really hope A-rod has a monster year

Greg Cohen said...

So do I.

Anonymous said...

I think a-rod will hit about 42 homers this year.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Donnie. The sports media has always been a parasite when it comes to Alex. They leach off him and act so morally superior. Fact is there are others who have not been named. Let's not act like Alex sold State secrets to AlQueda.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Donnie. The sports media has always been a parasite when it comes to Alex. They leach off him and act so morally superior. Fact is there are others who have not been named. Let's not act like Alex sold State secrets to AlQueda.

Anonymous said...

Donnie should be the Yankees' manager...