Ah, spring is here, and the Sox-Yankees rivalry is really blossoming, with Trot calling out A-Rod:
“Like Rodriguez says,” Nixon said, “he’s running stairs at 6 in the morning while I’m sleeping and taking my kids to school. I’m like, well I’m not a deadbeat dad, Alex… He’s got a kid now, too, so I guess he’ll have his limo driver take her to school.”
There’s a nice “divide and conquer” PR line going on, with Trot, Curt, etc. going all out to praise “true” Yankees such as Jeter or Bernie Williams, thus blaming A-Rod by implication:
“when people ask me about the Yankees, I tell them about (Derek) Jeter and Bernie Williams and (Jorge) Posada. I don’t tell them about Rodriguez.''
Not quite Fisk-Munson, but it’s fun to have some passion among players.