I don’t necessarily think that a jackass like this needs much attention, but check out Orioles fan Tolbert Rowe. During Monday’s Yankees-Orioles game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Rowe brought attention to himself by standing and turning his back during Alex Rodriguez’s plate appearances.
This dude is refusing to watch A-Rod's at bats: pic.twitter.com/12QGRaKAzs
— Tim Anderson (@TimmyWade94) April 13, 2015
Update: pic.twitter.com/JXQtj8PIaC
— Tim Anderson (@TimmyWade94) April 14, 2015
Now 3 refusing to watch pic.twitter.com/8k5zGcXyzJ
— Tim Anderson (@TimmyWade94) April 14, 2015
How bold, good sir!
Rowe’s logic is also impeccable, according to this Washington Post interview with him.
“I don’t respect him,” said Rowe, a 56-year-old who serves on the Caroline County board of education. “He doesn’t deserve to be watched. Absolutely not, I’m sorry. You know, and now they got all this about his tying Willie Mays’s record and the $6 million, and he has the audacity to think that he should be paid. I’m sorry. I don’t respect the guy. Not one bit.”
RED HOT TAKE, SIR.
But what about other PED users, including ex-Orioles Nelson Cruz, Jay Gibbons, and Rafael Palmeiro, along with current Orioles Everth Cabrera and Chris Davis (admittedly for Adderall as opposed to steroids)?
Rowe used to attend games at Memorial Stadium, and he’s owned a small season-ticket package since Camden Yards opened in 1992. The Orioles have fielded teams with convicted PED users, including Nelson Cruz, whom the Orioles signed after he served a 50-game suspension as part of the same Biogenesis scandal that ensnared Rodriguez. Rowe never turned his back on them, and he said he would not have protested any drug cheat aside from Rodriguez. “Oh, no,” he admitted. “Just him.”
So, why just him?
“Because he’s the worst,” Rowe said. “He’s the epitome of all that was wrong about it. And he’s been so successful. Maybe it’s jealousy, maybe it isn’t. But I just don’t think that he deserves to be in the class with other players that have never had … and I mean, he lied about it. I’m sorry. He doesn’t deserve my respect.”
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As he watched the bottom of the seventh inning, a reporter asked Rowe why he didn’t mind the Orioles signing Cruz. He paused. “It was different,” Rowe said. “Cruz’s record wasn’t anywhere near what A-Rod’s was. It would be similar to me finding out that Cal Ripken was on steroids during The Streak.”
BOLD STATEMENT.
There’s PED users, and then there’s Alex Rodriguez, grand high poo-bah of PED users who should be shamed above all others.
