Author: Anthony Stalter (Page 1260 of 1503)

Apparently Alex Rodriguez has been failing in the clutch for some time now. Just when fans his wife needed him most in 2004, he choked fainted up at the plate during the birth of his first child.

“The one nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was like rubbing his back. And he is passed out on a couch. And I am there, in the middle of labor,” Cynthia Rodriguez, wife of the New York Yankees star, said on an episode of the YES Network’s “YESterdays” that is scheduled to be broadcast Wednesday night.

“And really, I am not being paid much attention to besides the doctor and a couple of nurses,” she said. “And he is there moaning. In between pushing, I am going, ‘Honey, are you OK?’ and ‘Are you breathing? Are you OK?’ ”

Natasha Alexander Rodriguez was born on Nov. 18, 2004.

“As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation,” Cynthia Rodriguez said, according to excerpts released Tuesday by YES. “I don’t know why I thought the birth of our child would be different. In the middle of the night, I realized that I needed to go to the hospital. I wake him up. The first thing that comes out of his mouth, ‘Can we call your mother?’ …

A few hours later, I said, ‘I think you can call my mom now.’ Uh, and the color came back to his face when I told him he could call my mom.”

Get a pair A-Rod.

SI.com did something cool in their “Photos” section, where they ranked the greatest baseball players of all time by the numbers they wore.

Little disappointed in this though:

No. 1
Oh baby, was he good. In 22 seasons as the Yomiuri Giants’ first baseman, Oh hit 868 home runs, 106 more than Barry Bonds. He led the Japan League in home runs 15 times.

Runner-up: Ozzie Smith

You can’t have the Wizard as a runner-up!

A woman has been accused of running down and killing a man in her car following a Yankees-Red Sox argument outside a bar in Boston.

“She never braked, and she accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people,” prosecutor Susan Morrell said of Ivonne Hernandez, who is charged with reckless second-degree murder in the death early Friday of Matthew Beaudoin, 29.

Authorities won’t describe the argument beforehand in Slade’s Food & Spirits, but witnesses said it heated up when Hernandez identified herself as a New York Yankees fan. Like the rest of New Hampshire, Nashua, 45 miles northwest of Boston, is Red Sox country.

Bartender Tanya Moran said the argument spilled outside, and at least one person in a group that included Beaudoin began chanting “Yankees suck!” when they saw a Yankees sticker on Hernandez’s car.

Message to all Yankees and Red Sox fans: R.E.L.A.X.

Roger Clemens is sorry for his mistakes – although not those mistakes (i.e. taking HGH or having an affair with a minor). Just mistakes in general.

I’d like to apologize for all my mistakes, too. All right – that should about cover anything I’ve ever done wrong.