A Very A-Rod New Year

When it came to New Year's Eve countdown broadcasts, we were traditional and stuck with Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Which means we missed out on $275-million man Alex Rodriguez counting down with Carson Daly on Daly's New Year's Eve program.

New York sports talk radio was discussing the Yankee's appearance, jokingly calling him "Mr. New York." Well, not only is A-Rod loving NYC these days, he's also being managed by Guy Oseary (A-Rod dropped his old agent Scott Boras) - who produced Carson's NYE show! (Oseary also reps Lenny Kravitz, who performed during the NYE show - how's that for synergy/crafty packaging!)

Mrs. A-Rod - Cynthia "C-Rod" Rodriguez - joined her husband for a 2008 clinch. And we'd like to echo commenter amsci's suggestion that someone should get Carson Daly a hamburger - he so skinny he's looking really rough.

Also, commenter Meino says that, on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve, Ryan Seacrest introduced one of Mayor Bloomberg's daughters as Bloomberg's wife - did anyone else see it (we probably flipped to MTV to watch the trainwreck known as Tila Tequila)? All we know is that Seacrest got Bloomberg to deny he's running for President (again).

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By Jen Chung in News on January 2, 2008 12:55 PM

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Dave Hogarty

Carson Daly: the Nation of Islam called and wants you to stop wearing its uniform. You are not Carson X.

matthew gannon

Since the bag of peanuts actually hit A-Rod, we can assume the person who threw it does not pitch for the Yankees. If they can't hit the stike zone...

theloofyourlife

This will break his 'i choke in the playoffs' curse.

skateebee

I would have ordered Carson to put the frisbee where the sun don't shine and the tress don't grow.

skateebee

I would have ordered Carson to put the frisbee where the sun don't shine and the tress don't grow.

alivefromnewyork

I just checked both shows out on my DVR. The bag of peanuts hit A-Rod's clavicle. Funny word, but not a very funny clip.

And Seacrest introduced Bloomberg's daughter as his "friend", not his wife.

JMH

edEx, you should've hit him in the head again when he was walking away.

Tim N.

Hey, edEx... did the Frisbee leave a SCAB?

(That's an in-joke, folks.)

Your note made my day.

drewo

A-Rod - just stick to playing baseball. That's all we need from you.

ed_Extinct

carson daly and ryan seacrest are two of the worst hosts television has every had.

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on a funny note, while playing frisbee in sheep's meadow 2 years ago, i beaned carson in the head with my disc... he was walking thru the frisbee area like his shit didn't stink,. i didn't know it was him, but he made sure to tell me when i tried to apologize... "hey buddy, you just hit me, carson daly in the head with your frisbee."

my reply: "who?"

Jen Chung

What was the interview about? I can't find any video of it yet - all I found on Youtube was someone yelling how it was a disgrace!

catwith2heds

how could you leave out the fact that mid-interview between carson and a-rod, it looked like a-rod got hit in the face with a bag of peanuts! amazing stuff.