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- If you like winter sports, do we have some good news for you! Not only is it bone chillingly cold out, but this weekend is the 2nd annual Winter Jam in Central Park. They are making snow for Saturday's event (from noon until 4). Activities include cross country skiing, snowshoeing, ice sculpting, an amateur rail jam, and free hot chocolate. Snowmaking began on Monday and continues through today. When done, there will be 2 feet of snow for Saturday.
- Tomorrow in Union Square, top-ranked snowboarders will be competing in New York City's first snowboard event. The Union Square Street Sessions start tomorrow afternoon at 3 with events until 9 pm. We'll have more information and pictures tomorrow, but we're told that there will be 10 tons of snow for the event.
- A-Rod was in town yesterday with a vicious tan to promote his new children's book, Out of the Ballpark
- Mets fans should be happy to hear that Pedro Martinez is working hard to be in shape for the coming baseball season. With two years left on his contract with the Mets, the Daily News reports that Pedro is "robust these days, with defined biceps popping out of a sleeveless gray T-shirt, a cut upper torso." Thanks for the visual! Unfortunately, Pedro and his buff body will be out for at least three months of the season. Speaking of three months, Dave Williams just had surgery for a herniated disc in his neck and won't be available until around May.
- Could Mark Messier be coming back to The Garden? If he gets what he wants, The Captain will be retuning as a GM for the Rangers. The former Rangers star told the Edmonton Sun that "New York fits best for me and my family. And this is what I know best and what I love the most." While Messier can probably do no wrong in the eyes of Rangers fans, hiring someone with no front office experience seems like a recipe for disaster. But no, that never happens in The Garden.
Photo of snowmaking in Central Park by AP/Tina Fineberg
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We're not sure if the book deals with being booed by fans and being a major disappointment, but the description on Amazon makes it sound like the story of A-Rod's time with the Yankees:
I didn't realize a "major disappointment" averaged just a shade under 40 HR and 119 RBI a season while hitting .299/.396/.549. Maybe the book should instead being about ignorant fans who have no perspective on their All Star players and can't appreciate future Hall of Famers.
welcome back mess!
welcome back mess!
Whew...the Times ran a brief piece on ARod's appearance at B&N yesterday. Sounds like a crazy fan tried to bean him with a ball.
Also sounds like the security detail got a bit rough with the press.
A lot of fair weather Yankees fans only care about the World Series Ring. Sure, ARod will probably go to the Hall of Fame, but he probably needs to leave NYC to regain respect. It's sad, but NYC is DJ's town.
Tell me who has better abs than A Rod?
I can only imagine what his butt is like, probably got them butt dimples for heavy duty pounding.
ben - arod has great numbers, but in many eyes true greatness is measured by the number of rings you collect. see peyton manning.
and famedoc - the linked article said that was a paparazzi that tossed the ball.
Then, I would like to submit that the ENTIRE YANKEES TEAM has been a "major disappointment" for seven seasons. Especially that 01 team. They were an out away. Man, they suck.
But to be less facetious, that's just shallow. It's not A-Rod's fault that Randy Johnson sucked last year. It's not A-Rod's fault that the entire team blew up against Boston in 04 and that Joe Torre forgot how to manage his bench, baserunners and bullpen. It's not A-Rod's fault that Gary Sheffield and Bubba Crosby collided in 2005.
To call him a major disappointment is simply to buy into the WFAN-driven ridiculousness that has created an atmosphere where the Yanks could lose one of the best players of all time because the fans are stupid and fickle.
Wow....look how cute, warm and fuzzy little A-Rod looks on the cover..
He looks like one of those 1960's "paintings" of the kids with the oversized eyes..
This is shameless self promotion in kids book form, he has no shame