Bits of News on a Wednesday
by Tom Dakers on Feb 11, 2009 2:04 PM EST
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PrintCross another little pipe dream off our list, Bobby Abreu has signed with the Angels for one year and $5 million. It seems like more money than I was expecting him to get this summer.
Former Jay Roberto Alomar is being sued by a former girlfriend for having unprotected sex with her inspite of knowing he had AIDS. Ummmm yeah, well now I feel silly about calling Alex Rodriguez a scum, because well, now using the term on Roberto makes it this seem trivial, and this isn't trivial. This is, if true, criminal. Beyond that, well if true, the guy is a large enough creep to make ARod seem like a wonderful guy.
Beyond that there are 3552 opinions out there about ARod, he's gone back to his wife, his contract won't be voided and just about anything else that could be said about the man.
Also there is a rumor that Ichiro could pitch for Japan in the World Baseball Classic. Yeah, that will happen.
Boy I can't wait for actual baseball to actually happen.
Update: noted baseball hater Adam Dunn has signed with the Nationals, 2 years and $20 million. More money than I figured him going for.
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I remember
Ichiro in an interview saying that he wants to try being a pitcher when he turns 40. I loved that.
As far as I can tell, A-Rod isn’t scum, just douchey.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Abreu would have been perfect...
It is so sad that he will play for $5MM, and the Jays didn’t even look at him. High OBP, high BA, speed, durability….
He wouldn’t fit here at all. $2.4MM to JB + Camp/Frasor $ and we might have had a lineup of
Abreu
Hill
Rios
Wells
Snider
Rolen
Overbay
Barajas
Scutaro
Too bad.
Of course if we'd been winning to pay $5M for Abreu
then it would have taken more than $5M to sign Abreu.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that's the thing
the reason guys are signing for so little is because teams like us are showing absolutely no interest
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Alomar...
From what I read when Alomar and his GF at the time had unprotected sex it’s not like he forced her into it…and even if he did apparently at that time he didn’t know he had AIDS…Now, to be sueing someone for $15M because you had sex with them and might have contracted a disease is pretty absurd in my opinion…
This whole story is very odd…Sandy Alomar Sr. doesn’t even know his son is sick and Alomar is denying it…and he said he got it when he was raped by two men as a 17 year old? so he played baseball for 20 years and didn’t know? I find that hard to beleive.
well the suit is that he did know he had it.....
it is ‘knowingly’ having unprotected sex. The story says that he refused an AIDS test at one point, because presumably, he either already knew or already suspected and didn’t want it confirmed with the girl there.
unless Alomar is found liable
I’m not going anywhere near this story.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
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