The New York newspapers have had fun with the Stray-Rod story. They caught Alex Rodriguez with a woman who was not his wife, found out who she was and wrote about her and A-Rod.
These things happen. I left a Charlotte Hornets game one night, hit a bar and ran into a Hornet. He was with a woman. She was not his wife.
He was one of the first people I saw and when we made eye contact he turned nervous. I had never seen him nervous. I let him hang for a minute and then nodded. The nod meant, it's none of my business.
He walked over later, as nice as he could be, and I told him he was safe. What he does with a consenting adult after a game is no business of mine.
A few years ago Charlotte had a celebrity athletic divorce. A woman called me at work to talk about it. She wouldn't offer her name, but said she was a friend of the woman being dumped in the celebrity divorce, and had some dirt on the husband.
I told her I wasn't interested.
She was incredulous. You're supposed to be a reporter, she said. Why aren't you interested?
Because I can't justify writing about it, care little about gossip, care little about what a guy did when his wife wasn't looking and care little about what a guy allegedly did when his wife wasn't looking.
I also have no interest in Paris Hilton. But I am glad she is going to jail.
Good man Tom. These things tend to come out on their own anyway, it's none of the public's business regardless of the person's stature. Unless of course the offender is a preacher, rabbi, imam, pastor, priest, etc. agnostics and atheists should be allowed to ridicule them at will.
Posted by: NZ | June 02, 2007 at 08:42 PM
You still "outsed" him even if you did not name him! Reporters usually do this route because they want to get more popular doing this type of sleazy journalism that has become ever so popular ibn the last few years.
Posted by: Bea | June 03, 2007 at 02:16 PM