RedSoxRooter
01-31-2005, 11:07 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=klapisch_bob&id=1980464
"Yet, Rodriguez called it, "a smart play, one I would've made again."
"In the heat of the moment, you do things sometimes out of instinct," Rodriguez said. "I thought it was a smart play, and we almost got away with it. We put an umpire in the position of having to turn over a call like that in Yankee Stadium. It gave us a shot. (Umpire) Jim Joyce told me, 'if you'd knocked the crap out of (Arroyo) it would've been legal because he was in your way.' So if I had a chance to do it again, I would've tried to run him over. Even though I probably would've hurt someone with my weight and velocity, dropping my shoulder down."
Nice. Everybody talks about Schill not being able to shut up... A-Rod's starting to lose any of the actual respect I had for him.
"Yet, Rodriguez called it, "a smart play, one I would've made again."
"In the heat of the moment, you do things sometimes out of instinct," Rodriguez said. "I thought it was a smart play, and we almost got away with it. We put an umpire in the position of having to turn over a call like that in Yankee Stadium. It gave us a shot. (Umpire) Jim Joyce told me, 'if you'd knocked the crap out of (Arroyo) it would've been legal because he was in your way.' So if I had a chance to do it again, I would've tried to run him over. Even though I probably would've hurt someone with my weight and velocity, dropping my shoulder down."
Nice. Everybody talks about Schill not being able to shut up... A-Rod's starting to lose any of the actual respect I had for him.