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f*ck A rod AND HIS SIDE ARM SHEET!
Topic Started: Jul 21 2006, 08:48 PM (123 Views)
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wHAT THE f*ck IS WRONG WITH HIM????? What f*cking gives? Throw the ball from over the fecking top!
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Gotta fill in for BC. His dad, if he knew him, would've told him that sidearm is a more natural arm angle and it'll help him preserve his arm.
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Jul 21 2006, 08:50 PM
Gotta fill in for BC. His dad, if he knew him, would've told him that sidearm is a more natural arm angle and it'll help him preserve his arm.

:no1: Too bad his dad is still out buying that 40 and a pack of smokes!

On a side note, is this all true? Does A Rod not really know his Daddy?
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Jul 21 2006, 08:52 PM
On a side note, is this all true? Does A Rod not really know his Daddy?

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n the Dominican Republic, the average monthly wage is $150, and baseball is the ticket out of poverty. More than 10 percent of all major league players last season were Dominican. Home run slugger Sammy Sosa is a national hero.

It was in the Dominican Republic that Rodriguez began developing the fundamentals for baseball and life.

"The three years in the Dominican really grounded me in a sense where it gave me a foundation, I think, for the rest of my life," he said.

But an economic downturn forced Rodriguez's father to move the family to Miami, Florida, to open another shoe store. When he was 9, his dad told the family he needed to work in New York for a little while. He never came back, according to Rodriguez, and his parents later divorced.


http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/sho...ez/profile.html

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Rodriguez has said he was haunted by memories of the father who abandoned him when he was 9. Raised by his mom in Miami, he spent most of his childhood looking for a father figure.

"I thought he was coming back," he told The Seattle Times in 1998. "But he never came back. ... It still hurts."


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mari...basegame25.html

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Jul 21 2006, 08:59 PM
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Jul 21 2006, 08:52 PM
On a side note, is this all true?  Does A Rod not really know his Daddy?

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n the Dominican Republic, the average monthly wage is $150, and baseball is the ticket out of poverty. More than 10 percent of all major league players last season were Dominican. Home run slugger Sammy Sosa is a national hero.

It was in the Dominican Republic that Rodriguez began developing the fundamentals for baseball and life.

"The three years in the Dominican really grounded me in a sense where it gave me a foundation, I think, for the rest of my life," he said.

But an economic downturn forced Rodriguez's father to move the family to Miami, Florida, to open another shoe store. When he was 9, his dad told the family he needed to work in New York for a little while. He never came back, according to Rodriguez, and his parents later divorced.


http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/sho...ez/profile.html

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Rodriguez has said he was haunted by memories of the father who abandoned him when he was 9. Raised by his mom in Miami, he spent most of his childhood looking for a father figure.

"I thought he was coming back," he told The Seattle Times in 1998. "But he never came back. ... It still hurts."


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mari...basegame25.html

:no1: I guess Poppi still hasn't come back with that pack of Newports and 40 oz he went to go buy.
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"I thought he was coming back," he told The Seattle Times in 1998. "But he never came back. ... It still hurts."


Awwwwww. That's sad (not really), but there are so many people who have similar stories and don't let it f*ck them up. So many athletes. Ain't a black athlete in America - except Grant Hill - that knows his daddy. Chacon probably grew up in an igloo with just his mother. Hell, Jeremy Shockey's father left when he was a kid and he's said that as a teenager, he used to fantacize about one day meeting his father so he could kick his ass.

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he spent most of his childhood looking for a father figure.


Somebody told me that in Miami, A-Rod grew up pretty close to Carrol City. He should've let Kenneth "Boobie" Williams take him under his wing and sold some cocaine.
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Jul 22 2006, 04:08 AM
Ain't a black athlete in America - except Grant Hill - that knows his daddy.

Shaq. :peace:
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He's always thrown side arm.
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Yanks473
Jul 21 2006, 08:59 PM
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Jul 21 2006, 08:52 PM
On a side note, is this all true?  Does A Rod not really know his Daddy?

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n the Dominican Republic, the average monthly wage is $150, and baseball is the ticket out of poverty. More than 10 percent of all major league players last season were Dominican. Home run slugger Sammy Sosa is a national hero.

It was in the Dominican Republic that Rodriguez began developing the fundamentals for baseball and life.

"The three years in the Dominican really grounded me in a sense where it gave me a foundation, I think, for the rest of my life," he said.

But an economic downturn forced Rodriguez's father to move the family to Miami, Florida, to open another shoe store. When he was 9, his dad told the family he needed to work in New York for a little while. He never came back, according to Rodriguez, and his parents later divorced.


http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/sho...ez/profile.html

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Rodriguez has said he was haunted by memories of the father who abandoned him when he was 9. Raised by his mom in Miami, he spent most of his childhood looking for a father figure.

"I thought he was coming back," he told The Seattle Times in 1998. "But he never came back. ... It still hurts."


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mari...basegame25.html

That's actually horrible. I do feel bad for him in that regard. A-Rod is my age. I'm sure I'd still be emotionally scarred if that happened to me.

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Are you kidding?

"Phil is my father. Biological didn't bother."

Shaq is the WORST example to bring up!

Jordan would have been a much better example. James was a huge part of MJ's life until his death. Of course the conspiracy theorists say James was murdered over Michael's gambling debts, although it was probably just a car jacking gone wrong.
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A-Rod made that play and throw with the proper technique. Sometimes when you throw ¾ to sidearm the ball sails on you. I don’t think he had the time to stop, straighten up and throw over the top. The execution was correct but the results sucked.
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That guy they always show when Shaq's playing insn't his father?
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Jul 21 2006, 07:59 PM
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Jul 21 2006, 08:52 PM
On a side note, is this all true?  Does A Rod not really know his Daddy?

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n the Dominican Republic, the average monthly wage is $150, and baseball is the ticket out of poverty. More than 10 percent of all major league players last season were Dominican. Home run slugger Sammy Sosa is a national hero.

It was in the Dominican Republic that Rodriguez began developing the fundamentals for baseball and life.

"The three years in the Dominican really grounded me in a sense where it gave me a foundation, I think, for the rest of my life," he said.

But an economic downturn forced Rodriguez's father to move the family to Miami, Florida, to open another shoe store. When he was 9, his dad told the family he needed to work in New York for a little while. He never came back, according to Rodriguez, and his parents later divorced.


http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/sho...ez/profile.html

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Rodriguez has said he was haunted by memories of the father who abandoned him when he was 9. Raised by his mom in Miami, he spent most of his childhood looking for a father figure.

"I thought he was coming back," he told The Seattle Times in 1998. "But he never came back. ... It still hurts."


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mari...basegame25.html

You know. This happened to me when I was 2. My Mom remarried when I was about 9 and my step dad was a hard working strict ass Yankee fan, who turned me from a sissy to a baseball (Yankee loving guy). Took me to many games at Yankee Stadium and in Boston and I witnessed many great games and series. I loved this game so much they I would sneak my transistor radio in bed on a school night and listen to an away game in KC (about 10p.m.). My step Dad was great, but ran me tough as if I was in the military, making me toat the line. He always said I couldn't take orders and I couldn't make it for 4 years in the military. I guess I had to prove him wrong where I retired with 30 years of service. My Dad, god rest his soul passed away 2 years ago on Veterans Day. He served his time on a B-17 in World War 2. I did get the chance to come home months before he left us and we were happy watching Yankees every day on my sister's big screen. So you see, ARod probably is missing that.
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Jul 22 2006, 10:58 AM
That guy they always show when Shaq's playing insn't his father?

His real dad abandoned him. I actually think I read one story about how his biological father tried to show up again when he made it rich, a la Bobby Boucher's daddy. No word on whether or not Shaq's mom tackled him though.

Shaq considers Sgt. Harrison his dad, and he is for all intents and purposes, but only because he was abandoned first.

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O'Neal, born in Newark, New Jersey, was named "Shaquille Rashaun" ("Little Warrior" in Arabic) by his biological father, Joseph Toney. However, he is not close to his father; one of his songs, "Biological Didn't Bother", explains his feelings.

O'Neal's mother, Lucille O'Neal, would marry U.S. Army sergeant and future FBI agent Phillip Harrison (whom O'Neal considers his father figure) shortly after Shaquille's birth. O'Neal spent some of his childhood in Germany in Wildflecken, Bavaria, where his stepfather Harrison was stationed with the U.S. Army. It was there that he first began to play basketball and where he would meet his future college coach, Dale Brown. Marc Smilen of Dania, Florida, reports that there is no truth to the rumor that during Shaq's childhood days in Germany, that he recruited Dirk Nowitzki for the NBA.

One childhood story tells that O'Neal fractured both of his wrists while climbing between two trees, trying to imitate Superman, his comic book favorite.


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A-Rod made that play and throw with the proper technique. Sometimes when you throw ¾ to sidearm the ball sails on you. I don’t think he had the time to stop, straighten up and throw over the top. The execution was correct but the results sucked.


There's a time to go sidearm and there's a time to throw over the top. If you're on the run with your momentum pushing you towards home plate, you're definitely going to sidearm it. If you have time to set and release, and you have the arm A-Rod has, you clearly go over the top. Like you said, it'll sail on you if you go sidearmed a lot of the time, which is what has happened several times in the past two weeks.

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He's always thrown side arm.


Not every throw, he hasn't. He's even acknowledged he needs to work on his release point. You can't be accurate on throws if you're always slinging it over there.

The throw home the other night is the perfect example of when not to throw sidearmed. He had so much time. He rushed it.
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Jul 22 2006, 10:58 AM
That guy they always show when Shaq's playing insn't his father?

You ain't know? I think I heard that Shaq's real father left when his mama was pregnant with him. Sarge isn't tall enough. His real daddy is probably 11'2".

Oh, and Kobe and McNabb grew up with their fathers. But that's it. It's black tradition; the way it's 'posed to be. A-Rod should be thankful that old man hung around for 9 years. I got 7 before my parents broke up and that's more than a lot of people got. A lot of them leave before the child is even old enough to remember them having been around. But it's not something that I even think of unless it's brought up. I hear from him on birthdays and holidays, and that's enough. I don't dislike him or anything, but out of sight, out of mind -- move on. That's not just me, it's most everyone I know with a similar situation. And thinking about athletes, who else is boo-hooing about it? Picture Iverson in therapy because his daddy ain't around.

For him to still be harping on this after 23 years, it's not good. He should probably, in his mind, accept that his father is dead. Eminem has said that he assumes his pop is dead because if he was living, he'd have crawled around looking for a handout. That's what the shrink needs to tell him, instead of milking extra sessions. "Alex, your father's dead. He became a cab driver in New York, and as you know, in the 80s and 90s, a lot of cabbies were killed while on duty. Look at the positive. Had that not happend, you wouldn't have gone to D.R. and played baseball. You'd be just another nobody. So that $250 million is your inheritance. Now stop being a bitch and throw the f*cking ball correctly."
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Jeter's dad is black.
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Jeter's dad is black.

But that's it. And it's probably because he doesn't have a pre-nupt and Sanderson would take him to the cleaners. "She was damn sexy 34 years ago. The coochie had me and I wasn't thinking straight."
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Jeter's dad is black.

If his mother was black too, he probably wouldn't be around anymore.
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Jeter's dad is black.

If his mother was black too, he probably wouldn't be around anymore.

Good point. He's there for the white meat, like NBA players.
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