Because I know that this story will soon disappear into the ether and A-Rod will quickly go back to being a villain for daring to trod near a pitcher, I wanted to highlight it here. First, we hear from Chad Jennings:
When today’s game ended, Alex Rodriguez left Yankee Stadium and began making his way to New York-Presbyterian Hospital to check on David Huff. Before Rodriguez could get there, Huff was released from the hospital and was back with his teammates in time to catch the bus to the Indians hotel.
Rodriguez asked for Huff’s phone number so that he could call him this evening.
And then, from Huff’s Facebook page:
I’d like to thank the Yankees team doctors and our training for making sure i was ok. I’d also like to thank the NY Yankees security staff for taking care of my family, they were amazing. finally, to A Rod for contacting me on his way to the hospital, one class act. Everything is good. It was a little scary but I’m out of the hospital now and with my family. Thank you all for you concern and support.
Thankfully, Huff seems to be alright, which is shocking considering the ball ricocheted off his head into right field for a double. It was gentlemanly of Alex to jump in his car immediately after the game to track down Huff, and then to call him once he found out that the injured pitcher was already back at the Stadium. Alex does plenty of stupid things, but he does a lot of positive, likable things as well, such as his reaction this incident and his pulling a child out of the way of a truck in Boston a few years ago. The positive things simply do not get the sort of attention that the negative controversies do, and Alex comes off to most outside of New York as the source of all things evil. Hopefully, people around the game begin to recognize that Alex is not all that bad.
If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it!
5 Responses to A-Rod Is "One Class Act"
Leave a Reply
TIQ IQ
I was a little pissed Buster Olney didn’t mention this in his post this morning. He mentioned Huff tweeting that he was ok, but we already knew that. Why wouldn’t he mention the A-Rod part as well?
Yeah, when you take shots or criticize a player you should also make a point of praising him when given the opportunity. Just for the sake of fairness and your own credibility.
Nice job by Alex, and I don’t doubt for a moment that it was anything other than sincere concern for Huff’s health on his part. It must be a horrible feeling to know you’re responsible for something like that, even if it’s completely unintentional.
I had a mental bet with myself that as soon as the game was over, A-Rod would be racing over to the hospital. The fact is, he’s matured as a person and a player since a few years ago, and it’s pretty obvious to anyone impartial.
Thanks for documenting the deed.
Thank you for this article. It’s good to see Arod get some good things said about him. A lot of the main media especially new york sports media. sit around waiting and snooping for write anything negative about Arod. They will never give him cover of any good even if he found the cure to cancer. The New York Post and NY Daily News will find any way to trash him and make him seem like the son of Charles Manson. Arod has never been picked up for DUI, accused of rape, accused of having weapons on him, or any trouble you hear about these athletes. I think a lot of the media are big bullies because they use Arod as their scapegoat to get readers even if they have to make up stories about him. Kudos to Arod for holding his head up because all these people that hate and pick at him with face the same Karmar Peter Abraham from Lohud faced. The year the Yankees won the World Series and Arod playing and being one of the key players in the win. Mr.Abraham who picked on him ever chance he got to trash the guy and including his children suddenly was no longer writing for the Yankees. I guess the big guys got tired of Abraham’s creepy obsession with Arod in every article or whatever he wrote. He always found a way to try to kick Arod or his kids down. What a cruel man. He didn’t get a chance to celebrate or cover the world series as a Yankee beat writer. Karma won. Arod has his ring. This was the worst writer ever to write for the Yankees. He was cruel and jealous. A sad man. Now he’s stuck writing for the Red Sox. Best wishes to Arod he has always been a class act and a nice guy to fans and has done a lot of good things the new york papers refuse to print. They dont’ want anything Good Arod does to get media attention. They are too focus on making sure Arod never measure up to the perfect Derek Jeter. Arod is not trying to and Derek Jeter and Arod will always have a friendship which the NY media refuse to accept these two guys are not enemies.
Props to Arod….
I do remember Cal Ripken hitting a shot off Pettite’s head in a O’s Yanks game in the late 90′s and getting high fives in the dugout after… I always thought that was classless…. I think that made that brawl after the Benitez plunking of Tino inevitable… Compare that to the reaction by everyone with Huff got nailed…. Imagine if the Yanks were high fiving Arod in the dugout….
Here’s a NYT article on it:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/06/sports/pettite-bloodied-by-line-drive-irabu-and-yankees-get-battered.html?scp=273&sq=&st=nyt