Alan Abrahamson has written a fantastic column asking why we praise AROD but rip the Russians

AROD was suspended for the entire 2014 season in baseball and yet he's now doing ESPN telecasts, dating J-LO and a tonight show regular?

Maybe J-Lo doesn't want to date Russians.

Maria Sharapova got a raw deal.

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Are there really any good russian baseball analysts?

Everyone I know hates ARod. We love Jeter.

Didn't read the article but is it maybe the type of crowd that follows running (and cycling for that matter too as Lance hasn't exactly been welcomed back) just has higher expectations (and yes that crowd is smaller in numbers than a lot of sports.) I don't care for cheaters in any sport but seems like especially back in the day and to some extent now that guys at the top of sports like baseball and football are just idolized and no one wants to see their heros go down. Although seems like baseball still has exiled Pete Rose. I guess I see the same type of people who have no issues with ARod are those who just watch the 100 meter dash in track and could care less if they're all doping as long as they go fast.

rojo wrote:

Fox and now ESPN should be ashamed for hiring the guy. Yes, he's good at tv but imagine how we'd feel if NBC hired Regina Jacobs to do their Olympic telecasts.

I think you and Abrahamson should stop pretending like you know how "we" feel, and stop speaking for "us". I don't support AROD.

J Bod wrote:

Maria Sharapova got a raw deal.

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Well...look at how all the sissified PC plugs at LR ignore third world cheats, especially African cheats, as they've been taught by their masters in the media. WADA can lists the dozens of Africans with "questionable" biological passports and the PC tools look in different directions for evil Europeans to rant about.

I am a runner. ESPN does not have running on it. I don't watch ESPN. I don't watch the tonight show. No one I know likes AROD especially if you live in the Seattle area. I don't like cheats. The problem with Russia is that they have state sponsored cheating. I am not keen on corporations which look the other way either. I boycott those corporations.

theJeff wrote:

Everyone I know hates ARod. We love Jeter.

Of course you love Jeter. Didn't he just send you a guy who hit 88 homeruns last year for a jar of pickles?

Reminds me of when Mr Laker, the logo of the Nba, sent Pau Gasol west for a sack of potatoes .

Apples and oranges: Russian doping is sponsored by the state and hasn't been sufficiently punished. AROD is not a beloved figure and will be rejected by the Hall when his time comes.

Lurid Juzins wrote:

the PC tools look in different directions for evil Europeans to rant about.

Just clicked on the link to see how long for some race based comment.

theJeff wrote:

Everyone I know hates ARod. We love Jeter.

You're clearly not the Marlin fan.

You obviously don't pay much attention to American culture, where everything short of child molestation - and possibly, but not certainly, murder - can eventually be forgiven.

Praise AROD?

He was vilified in the MSM and the Yankess did not honor their contractual obligations to him.

AA just creating another hack job on AROD.

To be honest- most baseball fans aren't sports fans- they know American baseball, football, and basketball and maybe hockey.

They don't follow world wide sports and are mostly ignorant.

I had one such person tell me that I was wrong- football players DO NOT use steroids- at all.

Ignorant.

On the Boards wrote:

Apples and oranges: Russian doping is sponsored by the state and hasn't been sufficiently punished. AROD is not a beloved figure and will be rejected by the Hall when his time comes.

You should try crawling out from under that rock sometime. USA's corporate sponsored doping is worse. Every single sport is teeming with doping issues. To American's, meh, no problem...

Lol. Russia hasn't been sufficiently punished? When is the US going to be banned, even for 3 months??

A-Rod will never be an Olympian

JohnPeterRodDick wrote:

I am a runner. ESPN does not have running on it. I don't watch ESPN. I don't watch the tonight show. No one I know likes AROD especially if you live in the Seattle area. I don't like cheats. The problem with Russia is that they have state sponsored cheating. I am not keen on corporations which look the other way either. I boycott those corporations.

ESPN shows the NYC marathon. They do having running.

They don't like A Rod in Seattle because he left.