The first reaction from a lot of people regarding Alex Rodriguez‘s non-diss diss of Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon is, funny as it sounds, Alex-being-Alex. But once in a while don’t you have to wonder why almost none of the other players in baseball gets into pickles for saying stuff like this?

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Although one large carat Norm Roberts can throw at the star chamber pondering his fate is the way his kids were still fighting for him in the second half of what could have been a sequel to the Syracuse ugliness of a week earlier. This wasn’t old-school Redmen-Hoyas — we won’t see anything like that for a long time, if ever again — but it did seem to have the old place humming.