“Now A-Rod is like the Zelig of baseball, showing up
in the spotlight on the busy Canadian doctor, Anthony Galea, who helped bulk up
American superstars. And now he is unable to bury his tracks leading to the
defunct anti-aging clinic Biogenesis in South Florida. He was a five-tool
player. Now he is a multitool cheat, rejected, like a badly grafted body part,
by the main corpus of the New York Yankees.”-- George Vecsey, on
suspended-but-playing-anyway PED slugger Alex Rodriguez, in “Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, A Star Missed the Signals,” The New York Times, August
5, 2013
(The photo shows Alex Rodriguez on at
Ameriquest Field on May 22, 2004, toward the start of his usually
tortured tenure with the Bronx Bombers. My hunch is that, on this
occasion, he grounded out--failing, once again, to deliver in the
clutch. If only the Yankees had this kind of problem with him now...)
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