A-Changed Man

Source: dirtywatermedia.com --- Saturday, January 27, 2018
Everybody loves A-Rod. Well, not everybody, but the transformation of the once disgraced Yankee slugger to Baseball media darling is stunning. “I’ve got a Master’s at screwing up,” Alex Rodriguez confessed during a conference call to introduce ESPN Sunday Night Baseball’s new broadcast team where A-Rod will join new play-by-play voice Matt Vasgersian and returning analyst Jessica Mendoza. But the infamous performance enhancer also announced that he’s a different person since his days as a Red Sox nemesis suiting up in pinstripes. “I’ve changed,” Rodriguez said. “So it starts with you, right? And I think one of the things that — I changed and once I served my suspension [for the 2014 MLB season] and I had the whole year to sit down and reflect, I wanted to in many years turn the lens inward and try to figure out a better way, because I knew that I needed some type of paradigm shift. “And the suspension was long enough, unfortunately or fortunately, to allow me to think about changes and putting that change in motion.” Rodriguez is hoping the image transformation could someday translate into consideration for Baseball’s Hall of Fame, where most steroid users have been shut out in the last decade. “I’d be sitting here lying to you if I said it wouldn’t be an absolute dream to get into the Hall of Fame,” Rodriguez said. “Of course I would want to get into the Hall of Fame. But I certainly don’t control that. “But I think what I can ...

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