From The Star Telegram:
“I think this is all crap,” Young said. “It’s been one thing after another aimed at Alex. I’m tired of it. Unnamed people continually saying this and that. If you’ve got something to say, have the guts to use your name.
“Tipping pitches among his friends? I never even heard of that. But I’ll go out on a limb and say if Alex was doing it he would have asked me to be a part of that, even after he left here. I’m one of his best friends.”
Young played second base, next to Alex at shortstop, when they were teammates. Then Young moved to shortstop when Alex left for the Yankees.
“I played beside him for three years here, and never saw anything close to him signaling opposing hitters on what was coming. It’s crap. All crap,” said Michael.
Based on what I was told Friday by three other members of the Rangers when Alex played here, Young is right.
These people asked to remain “unnamed,” for a variety of reasons, one of them being my favorite:
“I never saw anything like that, and believe me, I would have eventually picked it up if it was happening,” he said. “But Alex is the kind of person, I wouldn’t put anything past him. So I don’t want to say publicly he didn’t, and then the proof come in that he did, and I’d look naïve and stupid.”
Hmm. I wonder if we see anyone come out to confirm Roberts’ story, even anonymously. We have not seen it yet.
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I’m with Michael Young on this one…and have been all the way. If you are going to say something bad about someone…have the guts to put your name to it or, shut the f–k up!
Innuendos and ridiculous rhetoric are superfluous but, hell, they sell newspapers and books. We have all seen this before and will again.
Name names or shut up!
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