Awful Announcing
"It's this web of Florida fuckery with all these crazy characters, like out of a Carl Hiaasen novel or Elmore Leonard or like a Coen brothers botched heist movie, you know? And all of these baseball people, like Ryan Braun, and Manny [Ramirez], and Alex, they all just kind of get caught up in this Florida fuckery."
Hey, whatever happened to that Pivot with Alex Rodriguez show on ESPN? That’s the question we asked back...
Corben told For The Win in November child actor reenactments were fitting because "every single adult in this story acted like a child."
"The Corp" has plenty of interesting interviews and focuses on the guests, but can get a bit repetitive.
In the last two years, a whole bunch of media companies pivoted to video (with disappointing results). In...
"Alex Rodriguez didn’t raise half a billion dollars and try to save a bunch of people’s lives. That’s kind of the irony of this. Look, it’s great when somebody hits home runs and maybe does an event here and there for the Girls and Boys Club. This story held a place in people’s hearts and minds that was way beyond those guys."
"Samson said Loria once told him that 'if you appear on Le Batard’s [show] again, I am firing you for cause, which means you don’t get paid.' So I love you, but not that much."
The podcast will cover the business successes and failures of its guests, in and out of the sports world.
Rodriguez didn't quite live up to the letter of the bet, though.
This hug led to quite the debate, and quite the criticism from A-Rod.
Two articles on the A-Rod/Maddon discussion were headlined quite differently, but both views of it can be true.
"If this story had come from a credible journalist, we might have shown some concern. But it came from A-Rod, so we’re paying it little attention."
Rodriguez will guest host Get Up this Friday, ahead of him calling Yankees-Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball.
Get ready for more A-Rod on your TV screens.
"When a booth is functioning on all cylinders, there's this nice symbiotic dynamic between the producer and the people in the booth. ...You're just vibing. That's what we're trying to get to, and it has to happen organically."
