Although I'm not an avid baseball fan, and can only base a judgment off the little that I actually do know about the sport, the story of Alex Rodriguez crossing Dallas Braden's pitching mound was enough to spark my interest, just as the media wanted it to.
During last Sunday's game between the New York Yankees and the Oakland A's, A-Rod made a big boo-boo by cutting across the pitcher's mound from third base to first after a sixth-inning foul ball. This drew a reaction from A's pitcher, Dallas Braden, who got on A-Rod about his actions. It is an unspoken rule in major league baseball that a player doesn't cross over the pitcher's mound because it is the pitcher's territory.
'A-Rod gets big mound of criticism.' This was the perfect name for the article that a San Francisco Chronicle writer posted. A-Rod claimed to know nothing about this so-called rule, and that his reasoning was that he was tired. "I was tired. It's really not that big of a deal. I've done that maybe a few dozen times. It's the shortest route. I thought it was pretty funny," he had stated.
Others would disagree. For someone who has been in the game of baseball for as long as Rodriguez has been, he should know that that's something you just don't do. Many people are commending Braden for his courage to stand up to A-Rod. "Get off my mound!"
The problem is that the disagreement that was probably as simple as "boys being boys" has continued to cause a lot of trouble. Braden said that he wasn't trying to cause any controversy; it ended just as soon as it started in his opinion. He wasn't trying to call anyone out or shed light on someone's attitude. He was only trying to get the respect he deserved. Of course, the media will take just about anything and run as far as they can with it.
Was it a careless move by A-Rod? In my opinion, yes. Did Braden over-react? Maybe just a little. But you can't say that if Joe Nathan was at the mound, A-Rod would have just waltzed his way across as he did last Sunday. This just shows a little bit of a poor attitude from A-Rod, who, by what I an in-experienced baseball fan have been reading, is not a very well-liked player.
There are rules made my the leagues, but the players make their own rules as well, and A-Rod most definitely broke one.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Is Tiger finally out of the Woods?
I'd been racking my mind all day on what I was going to post about for my blog today until I heard my roommate cheering on Tiger Woods in the final day of the Masters while she was watching tv today.
Tiger Woods made a huge first step reuniting with golf, taking a tie for fourth in the 74th Masters Tournament today even after a bit of a rocky start. He would tell you that it was unsuccessful and that he didn't get the job done, but others would argue that considering the fact that he's been away from the game for at least five months now and was only five strokes behind the winner, Phil Mickelson.
Although Woods ended the day with a nice birdie on par-4 of the eighteenth hole to finish 11-under 277, which earned him a standing ovation from the crowd. He feels that people are making too big of a deal about his performance, because he really doesn't feel as though he has much to be happy about.
With that being said, could the hype of the crowd and even the support of my own roommate mean that people are FINALLY getting over the mistakes of this big time celeb?
His newest commercial that features him staring at us on a black and white screen getting questioned by his late father, Earl Woods is another big hype in the media. "I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. And did you learn anything?" This is a legit statement for how Tiger's life has been going lately and his finally returning to the game of golf. The commercial also shows that his big sponsor, Nike, has still got his back even considering what has happened.
So again, are people finally getting over this big scandal? Is Tiger finally out of the woods? Some may say yes, while others say no. In my opinion, I think his performance in the Masters is just what he needs to move on with life. People need to give it up. What's done is done. Everyone messes up at some point in life and it doesn't need to be everybody else's business.
Tiger Woods made a huge first step reuniting with golf, taking a tie for fourth in the 74th Masters Tournament today even after a bit of a rocky start. He would tell you that it was unsuccessful and that he didn't get the job done, but others would argue that considering the fact that he's been away from the game for at least five months now and was only five strokes behind the winner, Phil Mickelson.
Although Woods ended the day with a nice birdie on par-4 of the eighteenth hole to finish 11-under 277, which earned him a standing ovation from the crowd. He feels that people are making too big of a deal about his performance, because he really doesn't feel as though he has much to be happy about.
With that being said, could the hype of the crowd and even the support of my own roommate mean that people are FINALLY getting over the mistakes of this big time celeb?
His newest commercial that features him staring at us on a black and white screen getting questioned by his late father, Earl Woods is another big hype in the media. "I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. And did you learn anything?" This is a legit statement for how Tiger's life has been going lately and his finally returning to the game of golf. The commercial also shows that his big sponsor, Nike, has still got his back even considering what has happened.
So again, are people finally getting over this big scandal? Is Tiger finally out of the woods? Some may say yes, while others say no. In my opinion, I think his performance in the Masters is just what he needs to move on with life. People need to give it up. What's done is done. Everyone messes up at some point in life and it doesn't need to be everybody else's business.
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