* Spare the A-Rod? Not likely

July 23, 2008

What’s the difference between A-Rod and the Bambino? The way they have been treated by the media.

In Ruth’s day, what happened behind bedroom doors (usually) stayed behind bedroom doors. That is not longer the case. Photographers and reporters hang around, just waiting for the opportunity to take an embarrassing picture.

But according to this piece in The Washington Times:

If A-Rod thinks this has been bad, though, he ain’t seen nothing yet.Guess who is writing a book about A-Rod? The cavity searcher of American journalism, the great Richard Ben Cramer.

Cramer managed to do that to a subject who had built a fortress
around himself and had plenty of loyal followers who would protect
DiMaggio behind those fortress walls. He had to peel away the layers of
protection to reveal the private tortures of DiMaggio.

Now he has a subject who as most of the public already knows is
shallow and self absorbed, and who has no such protections — in fact,
it is doubtful that A-Rod will have many people watching out for his
legacy, besides the ones that he pays. Cramer must be going crazy just
trying to keep up with the daily developments in A-Rod’s life. He had
at least one and maybe more chapters unfold in just the last week.

And consider the parallels — Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe; A-Rod and Madonna.

We are watching the movie unfold before our very eyes. But I can’t
wait until the book comes out, because whatever Cramer comes up with,
it will have to be pretty compelling to trump the daily A-Rod exploits
that are today’s tabloid fodder.

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