Hooters girls hate A-Rod

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Other allegations in Roberts' book, according to the Daily News:

 

• A-Rod "pitch tipped" when he played for the Rangers by letting opponents at the plate know which pitch was coming in lopsided games. A-Rod expected players he helped would reciprocate when he was having an off night and needed to get his batting average up.

 

Wow.

I find this a little hard to believe.

 

Also, as far as him using steroids in high school, the allegations I heard on TV last night that are supposedly in this book are ridiculous (assuming I was paying enough attention to recall them correctly). I think she's basically claiming he was a twig in HS, juiced, and all of a sudden completely filled out to a world class athlete (something like 50 or 75lbs +). I guess it could be possible, but I just don't buy it. Plus, his HS coach was on TV last night and completely denied everything and said he gained 30 lbs over the course of 3 years. Granted he may just be covering A-Rod's ass, but I would think if he thought A-Rod was juicing he would have just kept his mouth shut concerning the matter.

 

The excerpt I heard was something that was a little more realistic to think a guy was juicing. The one I heard was that he went from being able to lift 100 lbs. on the bench press one spring to putting up over 300 within a 6-8 month period. That would take either some kind of freakish capability for muscle growth or steroids. In either case, I'm amazed there wasn't some sort of ridiculous muscle tear if this story is accurate. Your body just can't handle those kinds of gains without breaking down in some way.

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The excerpt I heard was something that was a little more realistic to think a guy was juicing. The one I heard was that he went from being able to lift 100 lbs. on the bench press one spring to putting up over 300 within a 6-8 month period. That would take either some kind of freakish capability for muscle growth or steroids. In either case, I'm amazed there wasn't some sort of ridiculous muscle tear if this story is accurate. Your body just can't handle those kinds of gains without breaking down in some way.

 

I question the story's accuracy in the first place.

 

That being said, this guy seems to think it's possible to see similar gains naturally (or at least with legal supplements):

 

http://www.squawkingbaseball.com/?p=711

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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/05/a-rod_book_faq.html

 

The funniest nugget:

 

Is the book really all that salacious? We had heard she gets into A-Rod attending swingers clubs and what not.

 

Not really. Roberts does touch on A-Rod being spotted at a Dallas-area “couples-only lifestyle club” called Iniquity, but if there was truly dirty stuff in here at one point, the HarperCollins lawyers appear to have scrubbed it out. There’s still plenty of embarrassing A-Rod With Ladies dirt, though, including:

 

1. At functions involving Yankees and their spouses and families, he once used several pickup lines on players’ wives. When confronted, he claimed he was joking.

 

2. At clubs, he has been known to approach women by saying, “Who’s hotter: Me or Derek Jeter?”

 

3. At one point, Roberts describes A-Rod, as his marriage to Cynthia Rodriguez dissolved, as an “insatiable hedonist.”

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Doug Glanville weighs in on ARod tipping pitches to opponents:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/opinion/06glanville-tipping.html