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Jose Canseco Wishes Alex Rodriguez 'Happy Celebration Month'
We've reached that point in the sports calendar where there isn't a ton going on. The NBA and NHL are wrapping up, the MLB is starting to hit the canine days of summer and the NFL is still three months away. That can make it tough for sports writers to uncover interesting things to write about.
That's why when my wife texted me a tweet, I was intrigued. Normally, I'd have dismissed such a tweet if it were, declare, the middle of the NFL season. But on a Sunday in June, I was curious. Why did Jose Canseco post "Happy Pride Month to Alex Rodriguez"?
About an hour before this post, Canseco wrote "Happy Saturday to everyone except one guy."
Going into this, I had no idea what the backstory was. Perhaps shame on me, but I asked a few other people if they knew of a beef between Canseco and Alex Rodriguez. If anything, one would think that Rodriguez hates Canseco, who outed A-Rod's steroid usage adv before Rodriguez ever admitted to it.
Former MLB player Jose Canseco apparently has a long-standing beef with Alex Rodriguez, and now he's wishing him a "Happy
Thispastweekend I sat with my wife and my parents in the stands of a minor league baseball game, enjoying the small-town, Americana glory that is our national pastime. We consumed scorching dogs, soft pretzels and fried dough. We cheered the struggling team (which, sadly, lost), the goofy mascot, the kids who participated in all the silly challenges and contests between innings, and even the small inflatable cow that inexplicably makes an appearance in the later innings to the roar of the crowd. We exchanged jokes and funny pleasantries with people seated near us, fueled by the camaraderie that results from being sports fans and being emotional about the equal particular major league team (the Boston Red Sox, in our case).
However, I just cannot seem to permit go of a comment that a fellow fan made.
Earlier in the game, my family and I had been discussing Alex Rodriguez, a player for the New York Yankees who is currently fighting a 211-game suspension -- the longest non-lifetime ban in baseball history -- for his use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). As Red Sox fans, we are, of course, attractive critical of the player commonly acknowledged by the nickname "A-Rod." I made a funny comme
New Book to Explore A-Rod’s Sexuality?
Outsports reports that Selena Roberts, the Sports Illustrated co-writer who broke the recent story of Alex Rodriguez testing positive for steroids in 2004, has a book on the slugger coming out in May.
Among the nuggets that it supposedly tackles is A-Rod's sexuality.
Bob's Blitz, a sports gossip blog, reports: “The Blitz has learned Hit and Run: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts will be out May 19, 2009 – exactly one week before the Yanks head to…Texas to play the Rangers. It is rumored that the book may take a look at A-rod's effort with his sexuality as well as his steroid use. The NY Daily News once had a curious quote, “A petite stripper at the Hustler Club said A-Rod ‘likes the she-male, muscular type. They brought me up to the champagne room one time. I spun around once and that was it. I'm not his type.'”
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Make no mistake about it: Alex Rodriguez's spread in the current issue of Details makes him look like a total tool. The photographer, Steven Klein, is an extremely creative force who enjoys pushing the comfort levels of both his subject and those looking at his perform.
But with that being said, A-Rod is in no position to be making anyone uncomfortable, and because of that, he comes across as an insecure narcissist.
Again.
And trust me, if that were the whole story, I wouldn't be so irritated by the dialogue that has followed the photos' release.
But that's not the whole story.
In fact, the whole story has way more to act with us than it does him.
A-Rod is beautiful, but that's hardly a reason to hate him.
Now, you can dislike him because he flaunts it.
You can hate him because he lied, because he cheated or because he's not Derek Jeter.
But most men, particularly the insecure ones, hate him because he reminds them of their possess perceived shortcomings, and so to make themselves feel better, they call him the one synonyms they have relied on to strip a man of his worth for decades: gay.
It's curious how technology makes it feasible for anyone on the celestial body to pull up A-Rod's p