Friday, June 05, 2009
"You should feel lucky someone's asked you for your autograph"
There's something amusing about pro athletes who think they're bigger and better than everyone else and slight people like, oh, 10 year old kids looking for an autograph. And it's even more amusing when the player, in this case Alex Rios, haven't exactly been tearing it up lately.
I can sort of understand his reaction if an adult was bothering him for a signature but c'mon, it's just a kid. When you're rich, when you're famous, and when you're doing something the rest of us can only dream of, things like autograph requests are going to come up. Why be a jerk about?
Signing autographs sure beats working for a living.
# posted by SBP : 10:57 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9hRCthV8E
There you go! Probably not as interesting as I make it out to be.
There you go! Probably not as interesting as I make it out to be.
As someone who was once mistaken for a hockey player (26 years old, tall, wearing a suit, going to the Westin) I can tell you that professional autograph hounds send their kids with a book of cards over, as athletes are more likely to sign 'em. It's possible that Rios has seen these same guys and same kid outside the ballpark, his house, charity events, etc... for the whole season, and knows it's not for the kid, it's for whomever's willing to pay for it later.
Not to excuse the guy, his reaction was pretty unprofessional, especially for someone who gets to play Baseball for a living, but I can see another side to that incident.
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Not to excuse the guy, his reaction was pretty unprofessional, especially for someone who gets to play Baseball for a living, but I can see another side to that incident.
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