{"id":1425,"date":"2009-02-10T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:44:33","slug":"a-rodgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2009\/02\/10\/a-rodgate\/","title":{"rendered":"A-Rodgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing about the scandalous revelations that A-Rod, too, has &#8216;roided? That many less hours ESPN has to push the Duke-Carolina game on us. I bet they were sweating it, though, and were worried A-Rod wouldn&#8217;t talk to Peter Gammons until Wednesday. No way they devote the entire 6:00 p.m. Sportscenter to the interview and reactions on the night of the &lt;strong&gt;BIGGEST RIVALRY IN THE HISTORY OF RIVALRIES AND PROBABLY THE UNIVERSE ITSELF&lt;\/strong&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>Quick take on A-Rod: not surprised, everyone was doing it, right? Nice that he&#8217;s manning up, to a point, instead of offering up vague apologies. But it&#8217;s not like he came out and admitted this on his own. It took the report of a positive test six years ago to get him to come clean.<\/p>\n<p>And can all the sports writers out there just chill on the &#8220;Wait until Player X, who is clean, wipes away all the records from the steroid era&#8221; chatter? See what it gets you? Everyone is doing something for an edge. Never forget that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing about the scandalous revelations that A-Rod, too, has &#8216;roided? That many less hours ESPN has to push the Duke-Carolina game on us. I bet they were sweating it, though, and were worried A-Rod wouldn&#8217;t talk to Peter Gammons until Wednesday. No way they devote the entire 6:00 p.m. Sportscenter to the interview and reactions on the night of the &lt;strong&gt;BIGGEST RIVALRY IN THE HISTORY OF RIVALRIES AND PROBABLY THE UNIVERSE ITSELF&lt;\/strong&gt;. Quick take on A-Rod: not surprised, everyone was doing it, right? Nice that he&#8217;s manning up, to a point, instead of offering up vague apologies. But it&#8217;s not like he came out and admitted this on his own. It took the report of a positive test six years ago to get him to come clean. And can all the sports writers out there just chill on the &#8220;Wait until Player X, who is clean, wipes away all the records from the steroid era&#8221; chatter? See what it gets you? Everyone is doing something for an edge. Never forget that. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,76],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-mlb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15082,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/15082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}