For everyone who swears A-rod can’t handle pressure situations, they now have some pretty legitimate ammunition to support their claims:
Alex Rodriguez passed out during the birth of his first daughter.
“The one nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was like rubbing his back. And he is passed out on a couch. And I am there, in the middle of labor,” Cynthia Rodriguez, wife of the New York Yankees star, said on an episode of the YES Network’s “YESterdays” that is scheduled to be broadcast Wednesday night.
“And really, I am not being paid much attention to besides the doctor and a couple of nurses,” she said. “And he is there moaning. In between pushing, I am going, ‘Honey, are you OK?’ and ‘Are you breathing? Are you OK?’”
Natasha Alexander Rodriguez was born on Nov. 18, 2004.
“As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation,” Cynthia Rodriguez said, according to excerpts released Tuesday by YES. “I don’t know why I thought the birth of our child would be different. In the middle of the night, I realized that I needed to go to the hospital. I wake him up. The first thing that comes out of his mouth, ‘Can we call your mother?’
After reading this, don’t we have to consider it somewhat of a miracle that A-rod doesn’t keel over in the batter’s box when he comes up with 2-on and 2-out with the Yanks trailing by a run in the bottom of the 7th (or 8th, or 9th)? I know it must be an earth-shattering experience seeing your wife’s nether-regions stretch/”explode” like that (the best description I ever heard was when I went to see Jim Breuer at the Comedy Connection in Boston, and he gave his reaction to when his wife said her water broke: “That’s nice, hunny, but why is your a$$hole inside out?”), but come on A-rod, you can’t be letting your wife out-macho you in the delivery room, especially when she’s the one giving birth. I will say this though– at least we finally have some insight into what A-rod’s thinking about when he’s up in a clutch situation.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Does anyone else have an issue with Natasha’s middle name???
May 9th, 2008 at 1:32 am
um, that’s interesting…