January 05, 2008

ARod WTF?: AskSpoFi: ARod's baseball IQ? [more inside]

posted by geekyguy to navel gazing at 04:19 PM - 10 comments

In a 60 Minutes interview(982k .wmv file) ARod shows Katie Couric his Memorabilia Room and points to a couple of MVP Awards and situated between them is something he refers to as "The Babe Ruth Award"1,2 and he adds, "it is for the most home runs in Major League Baseball". Why would ARod have an unengraved trophy on his shelf and then incorrectly identify its significance?

posted by geekyguy at 04:22 PM on January 05, 2008

because he is stuck up and conceited

posted by i_love_me1994 at 05:41 PM on January 05, 2008

I'll put my Ron Jeremy Award in the attic.

posted by catfish at 06:58 PM on January 05, 2008

I'll put my Ron Jeremy Award in the attic. If you can do that without using your hands, keep it on the shelf.

posted by tselson at 09:06 PM on January 05, 2008

actually, he's right. it's the Babe Ruth Homerun Award. it's just not something handed out by the BWAA. i guess Alex just left out the "Homerun" part of the award name (i don't know for sure, i'm not getting any audio with the video).

posted by goddam at 10:08 PM on January 05, 2008

because he is stuck up and conceited I assume that you are eating a big plate of crow at this point, so that's why you haven't come back to say "Oops!" goddam: That is the award that he was pointing at, and he doesn't say "Homerun". So, it seems that ARod's baseball IQ is perfectly fine, but those that immediately assumed he was wrong/lying/stupid may be "challenged"...

posted by grum@work at 03:57 PM on January 06, 2008

and he adds, "it is for the most home runs in Major League Baseball". So ARod's right, all he forgot to say was.."each year". Nice work, Goddam.

posted by BoKnows at 04:27 PM on January 06, 2008

Thanks goddam

posted by geekyguy at 06:37 PM on January 06, 2008

An Emily Latella moment. Nevermind.

posted by THX-1138 at 01:09 AM on January 07, 2008

What's the big deal? Who doesn't have one of those things lying around.

posted by 86 at 08:02 AM on January 07, 2008

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