Posada: 'Cornered' into A-Rod HOF comment
Well, look who’s back. Jorge Posada has this book promotion thing down perfectly. He comes out with an autobiography that he admits is literally “not controversial” (i.e., “not all that interesting”). However, in the course of promoting said book, Posada says something controversial about Alex Rodriguez, that he and other PED users don’t belong in the Hall of Fame. Posada didn’t use PEDs, he implies, and his career was hurt by those who did. Including at least one prominent teammate.
Later on, after A-Rod is confronted about Posada’s comments, Posada does another interview walking back the harsh nature of what he said himself, while adding that he was coerced into saying the controversial stuff, presumably because that’s what the media does.
And we here fall for it, of course, all the while ignoring the truly worthy stuff Posada says to TMZ — namely that umpires used to fart on him, but that he got them back.
Posada apologized on the “Boomer and Carton” show, not for farting, but still apparently full of regret because he was manipulated into saying something “controversial”:
“I tried to text him yesterday,” Posada said of Rodriguez. “I feel like I was cornered into this answer. I know better. I was really caught off-guard.”
Posada said he’s been fielding tough questions while on tour to promote his new memoir, “The Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes.”
“The thing is, the book is not a controversial book,” Posada said. “And the questions that have been asked from the get-go are very controversial.”
“Cornered,” he says. Well, Posada’s value on the corners as a pitch framer were kind of dubious at the end. He’s still having trouble with the corners, apparently. And he’s the one being framed.
Again, the book is “not controversial.” In other words, it has nothing you want to read. All of the stuff you’d want to read about Posada has been in the papers and online over the past few days of his book tour. So we don’t have to buy the book. Got it.
And from us in the future, a promise: More farting, less “not controversial” stuff.
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