Uhhh...is this for real???

by O'sFan21 on Feb 11, 2009 10:03 AM EST Comment 22 comments

Did anybody else see this? Is this a real story?? A buddy of mine sent it to me at work and at first I thought it was a fake link/story, but it seems to be a real story as far as I can tell. I honestly don't even know how to react to this or what to say at all. Anybody else have any thoughts? Has anybody heard any rumors about this before??

Alomar has full blown AIDS

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It's all over the blogs

I guess time will tell if it’s true or not. I really hope not. Just so depressing. What a bad month, baseball-wise.

by pipkin on Feb 11, 2009 10:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Really Sad

For all involved. I wonder if that explains Alomar’s precipitous decline.

by dkdc on Feb 11, 2009 11:02 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Just saw it up on Deadspin

What-the-fuck?!? I don’t wish this on anyone.

It’s getting hard to get excited about spring training with all the bad news over the past few weeks.

I always say follow your dreams...even if they're about a giant spider with your father's head, and he keeps stealing your p*nis!

by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Feb 11, 2009 11:11 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Did you read the source link from NY Daily News?

That is even more horrifying.

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by Stacey on Feb 11, 2009 11:25 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

That really really sucks

I know everybody in the world hates him, but I always was a big fan of Robbie’s. In HS I used to argue with everybody how much better he was than Chuck Knoblauch and I was actually really happy when he went to the Mets because that meant I got to see him on tv more. Hell, I even check ebay every once in a while for an Alomar O’s jersey. He may have been a douche, but the guy could play. Tragic.

"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17

by daveh873 on Feb 11, 2009 11:30 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

outstanding player

And I didn’t mind him either.

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"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."

"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."

by SC on Feb 11, 2009 11:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I liked him

Spitting incident aside. I loved to watch him play.

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by Stacey on Feb 11, 2009 11:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I always thought the spitting incident was an aberation.

And from what I hear brought on by some ridiculously inappropriate and offensive comments by Hirschbeck.

by O'sFan21 on Feb 11, 2009 11:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That, too.

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by duck on Feb 11, 2009 11:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Dude played hard

even for us. Sure, I didn’t like teh spitting incident at all. No one defends him for that.

But he was a 2B you didn’t mess with. A few days after Albert Belle (then on the WS, iirc) took out a 2B with an unneccessarily hard slide and broke the kid’s ankle, (or something, definitely a broken bone involved), Alomar had a GiDP chance with Belle as the lead runner. And from 25 feet away, Robbie threw directly at Belle’s head. Belle ducks like a scared kid hearing a firecracker, and his tough guy cred took a serious hit. Alomar was standing up for middle infielders everywhere and took down the big, bad basher.

I loved it.

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by duck on Feb 11, 2009 11:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It was Fernando Vina who Belle tried to kill with a forearm shiver to the face (rather than a slide).

He wasn’t a nice person.

by O'sFan21 on Feb 11, 2009 12:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Forearm

shivers are very underrated as an effective way of getting your point across. I use them daily.

"460 credit score?!?! What the….(forearm shiver)

Always trust your cape. -Guy Clark

by BPinOK on Feb 11, 2009 12:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

THAT'S it

You’re right. A real douche move by Belle, and Roberto paid him back in kind.

The throw came THAT CLOSE to taking his head off.

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by duck on Feb 11, 2009 12:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Belle was a huge prick and all

But I’ll always have very fond memories of the time he refused to go to first base after clearly being hit by a pitch. That was badass.

I had forgotten that he hit 3 bombs in that game. Also he hit 3 bombs in a game 3 times in his career???

by O'sFan21 on Feb 11, 2009 12:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

"If Conine had hit a ground ball," Miller said, "there might have been a dead infielder."

by PhilR8 on Feb 11, 2009 12:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not sure

Miller was even being sarcastic when he said it. Knowing Belle, Miller was probably serious.

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by duck on Feb 11, 2009 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Alomar was great fun to watch.

He looked like Ichiro coming out of the box before Ichiro did. Could get on base like a mo’fo & had his share of power. Defensively he was as smooth as silk.

From the Land of Pleasant Living...

by OEutaw on Feb 11, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs