A-Rod's wife gets her revenge
Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:30 PM
This is what A-Rod gets for canoodling with a woman other than his wife: she tells the world what a wimp he is.
For some reason, Alex Rodriguez agreed to sit down with his wife, Cynthia, for an interview with YES, the Yankees' personal television network. I’ve no doubt the network promised not to ask any embarrassing questions about the story The New York Post broke last year about A-Rod’s dalliance with the proverbial buxom blonde. So A-Rod, poor schmuck that he is, agreed.
So instead of talking about potholes on the matrimonial highway, the interview worked its way to A-Rod, the family man. And his wife volunteered that during the birth of his first daughter in November 2004, the mighty athlete, scourge of the American League and heir-apparent to Ruth and Aaron and BALCO Barry, passed out.
YES has been playing teasers from the interview during games, and Cynthia Rodriguez isn’t just passing along a nugget of information. She’s laying it on with a trowel, clearly enjoying his discomfort at having the world learn that once again, when it got down to crunch time, A-Rod folded under the pressure.
While Cynthia was in the throes of labor, A-Rod was moaning on the couch being attended to by everybody in the delivery room. He recovered a bit when she told him to call her mother to come and help.
“As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation,” Cynthia Rodriguez said, according to transcripts released by the network.
I’m not going to suggest that he’s less of a man for fainting at a delivery. Anyone who’s attended one knows it’s no place for the faint-of-heart. I got through two of them, but when my wife had the Caesarian, I stayed on my side of the sheet. No way was I going to watch my wife sliced open like an overripe watermelon.
But even if you’re a little squeamish, a guy’s got to steel himself for the task. Pass out in the labor room, and you’re going to hear about it for the rest of your life. And all your friends and family are going to hear about it, too.
The guy has a talent for being embarrassed. If it’s not slapping at a baseball, it’s getting caught in flagrante bimbo or getting booed for not hitting enough postseason home runs or hearing about his contract or something. The guy tries harder than anyone alive to be perfect in every way and loved by everyone and to always say the right thing, and it all keeps coming back to smack him in the chops.
I was about to say at some point you have to feel sorry for A-Rod. But then I remembered the bimbo, and decided this one he had coming to him. His wife could play all lovey-dovey – the couple had their second daughter a couple of weeks ago – and still get even. He had his fun. Now she’s had hers.
It’s not exactly poetic, but there’s justice there somewhere.
