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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.

Before his team’s fifth straight loss Sunday, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen shared his opinions on Chicago fans and the media. And it was good.

”Right now, everyone in Chicago is making lineups, ‘Call up this guy, call up that guy,”’ Guillen said. ”If we had 50 people allowed on the roster, we could do that. That’s what ticks me off about Chicago fans and Chicago media — they forget pretty quick. A couple of days ago, we were the [bleep]ing best [bleep] in town, now we’re [bleep].”

Asked why that is, Guillen pulled no punches.

”Because maybe the manager is an ass[bleep],” he replied.

Guillen said that the only way the perception of the Sox ever would change is by winning, but even after they did in 2005, it hasn’t taken long for it to wear off.

”We won it a couple years ago, and we’re horse[bleep],” Guillen said. ”The Cubs haven’t won in 120 years, and they’re the [bleep]ing best. [Bleep] it, we’re good. [Bleep] everybody. We’re horse[bleep], and we’re going to be horse[bleep] the rest of our lives, no matter how many World Series we win. We are the bitch of Chicago. We’re the Chicago bitch. We have the worst owner — the guy’s got seven [bleep]ing rings, and he’s the [bleep]ing horse[bleep] owner.”

That’s awesome because you know what? He’s got a point. The Cubs can do no wrong in the city of Chicago, as evidence by how the team sells out all of their games despite not winning in 100-plus years. Obviously Guillen went too far by saying the White Sox are Chicago’s “bitch”, but he’s got a point buried somewhere in the rant.