[新聞] He has no problem with Rodriguez's shout; most others

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BONDS BACKS A-ROD He has no problem with Rodriguez's shout; most others disagree BY JIM BAUMBACH jim.baumbach@newsday.com June 1, 2007 http://0rz.tw/372KT Barry Bonds needed only one look at the replay of the Alex Rodriguez play that got under the skin of the Blue Jays to determine the Yankee lightning rod did nothing wrong. The Blue Jays obviously don't agree. They were irate after A-Rod seemingly distracted third baseman Howie Clark by yelling something as Clark settled under - and then backed away from - a pop-up Wednesday night, a tactic that was termed "bush league" by manager John Gibbons. When Bonds was told that the Blue Jays were annoyed at how A-Rod carried himself on the basepaths, the Giants superstar got snippy. "Too bad!" Bonds snapped. "Get over it." Bonds had not yet seen the play when reporters initially approached him by his locker about two hours before the Giants-Mets game last night. But then Bonds noticed that it was being replayed right then on the clubhouse television. "I'll be able to look at it if you all get out of my face," he said. As Bonds watched the play unfold, he was surprised when Clark bailed on the pop-up at the last second, just after A-Rod passed by him, even though shortstop John McDonald was not in position to catch the ball. "And the ball just dropped, right?" Bonds asked. After a second or two of silence, Bonds reached his decision on the play, absolving Rodriguez of any wrongdoing. "That's Toronto's fault," Bonds said. "Catch the ball." Then Bonds laughed loudly. "It's your own -- fault. What's wrong with you? You've got 30,000 people in the stands hollering." Two lockers away from Bonds, Brooklyn-born Rich Aurilia had a completely different take. "I think if you ask anyone in baseball if they think it's accepted, I'd pretty much guarantee that everyone will agree that it's not," Aurilia said. "But hey, you do what you do and live with the consequences." Aurilia answered questions for 10 minutes, but Bonds quickly grew tired of the exchange. When asked if he's ever yelled at an infielder like that, he shook his head. When he was asked if the move was unsportsmanlike conduct, he snapped. "Go ask Alex," he said. "Leave me the -- out of it. Not my problem." That's basically the way the Mets felt about the play, too, though most of them were more polite than Bonds was. Mets manager Willie Randolph, a former infielder, said he's never been part of a play like that but didn't want to comment. "I want to talk about the Mets," Randolph said. When a group of reporters gathered by Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca's locker, he said, "Not one of you guys mention A-Rod to me. I'm dead serious." Lo Duca had a run-in with Rodriguez last year when he was angered by how the Yankee celebrated a home run, and told him about it. Like Bonds, Jose Reyes had not seen the play and also was surprised that Clark stepped away from the pop-up at the last second. "He got scared?" Reyes said. Asked whether he could picture himself getting distracted, Reyes said, "It's no matter. When I say 'I got it,' I got it." The crew chief for the umpiring crew at last night's Mets-Giants game, Randy Marsh, said there's no hard rule that bans yelling at an infielder. But he added that it still falls under a discretionary call for umpires to see if there was interference. From the replay, Marsh did not think interference occurred. "If he was close to him and jolted him, that would be something else," he said. "But it looked like he just ran past him." And for all the talk that this play has sparked, Aurilia noted that he didn't see any of Rodriguez's teammates defend the play. Said Aurilia, "I think that speaks more volumes than anything." Bush league or not? Reaction from around baseball to A-Rod's distraction ploy in Toronto Wednesday night: "I don't blame him. I would have done it, too ... Why not do it? You have to do everything to win games." - White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen "I wouldn't want my player doing it." - Indians manager Eric Wedge "I don't know how you can get away with that, unless you're a Yankee player." - Giants shortstop Omar Vizquel "There are certain things that apparently are OK and then there are some other things that by some self-defined code are not." - Broadcaster Bob Costas "I think it was bush league. He was trying to win the game, but he'd be screaming if someone did that to him." - Frank Rafferty, a Mets fan sitting in the upper deck at Shea Stadium. "I thought it was pretty fun. I never really thought about doing it myself." - Nick Rafferty, Frank's 11-year-old son COMPILED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 123.195.68.175