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A-Roid Field Still a Go

Posted Feb 11th 2009 8:00AM by TMZ Staff

A-RoidIt's simple math, really -- $3.9 million is greater than a tarnished legacy.

Everything is still on for Friday's ceremony at the University of Miami to name the new baseball field Alex Rodriguez Field. Lying Liar Field was apparently too cumbersome.

Although A-Roid didn't actually go to UM, he has been close to the program and the entire Miami community and donated $3.9 mil back in 2002. A rep for the school tells us "We are moving forward with the event. The donation was announced at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2002."

In this economy, nobody is about to give back money based on principle.

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1. Well it certainly comforting to know money means more than the truth or cheating by shooting illegal substances into your body to avoid hard work and patience it takes to be a real role model and then you can lie and lie some more about it...Gee what a fine example to show kids ...yes you too can cheat your way to the top and have a place named after you no matter what you have done as long as you got the ca$h to back it up...

Posted at 9:33AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Cat

2. when will professional sports teams stop talking out of two sides of their mouths No more random testing make it fair where each player no matter how famed must report to a specific lab given a number so no names will be able to be seen until it is proven they are postive... get blood and urine test for these illegal substances that tear apart the bodies in the long run and make them superman in the short term... so that high school kids looking up to these so called role models wont do the same and they wont be tempted to ...and all the wonderful people who want these beefed up cheats to be entered into the hall of fame that each hall of famer that gets in with positive tests has to have a sign near the name yes I got here by cheating and putting steroids in my system because even though I had some talent I wanted to bypass hard work and determination to get here.

Posted at 9:40AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Cat

3. GoVNator say HIGH welcome2 the club you`ll do just fine.

Posted at 9:41AM on Feb 11th 2009 by GOVNAtOR

4. Well, Florida is not known for it's Mensa members......

Posted at 9:41AM on Feb 11th 2009 by GiggleWater Doll

5. By masonic SS trashed the US...just ask Howard DOA Hughes`s.

Posted at 11:16AM on Feb 11th 2009 by OLD OLD MONEY?

6. As a UM alumni, I'm embarrassed that the school would go forward with the dedication. But UM, despite having some really fine academic programs, among the best in the nation, is known more for it's myopic athletic programs and criminal sports stars.

Posted at 9:48AM on Feb 11th 2009 by macca

7. MA~sonic comes from HHMI& hughe`s patents ripped off by the triad...maSSon`s do`nt have thier own dime by love to F`up the USA.FREEMASON ha ha ha more like treason on the USA by hidden agenda like boom booom CBS house full of lowlifes rattleing my DNA for george beattle KILLROY GE westinghouse.

Posted at 9:55AM on Feb 11th 2009 by POOPah Zzzz....

8. Ok...so Phelps smoked a little weed and lost Kellogg's and was suspended from competeing for a couple of months. Arod cheated on his wife AND lied about using steroids AND HE gets a stadium named after him?
Yeah..sounds about right for this ass-backwards country.

Posted at 10:02AM on Feb 11th 2009 by 2fas4u

9. i dont know what poopah is on but he musta gotten it from Aroids supplier and is tripping by the looks of his post .
caesar si viveret ad remum dareris

Posted at 10:04AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Cat

10. With vertual online college the old system is falling apart...give some money cover up those SIN`s all taxe free.SOS SOP corruption starts there and than the judge is on the take and the cop and doctor than you have a killroySS run trilated world and the trilates do wahtever they want all the while they PACK the jails with anyone who fights them.TREASON by masonic design has taken us to this point.Runout the SS and ban the hidden aganda HOUSEs or the whole world will be forever at war...just as they want and plan it to be....War sells peace DON`t.Two class system DO`nt work at all.

Posted at 10:11AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Who owns the college? whoever gave the dime!

11. -SS/=peace

Posted at 10:18AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Ces R vuruos N ouver

12. Ubi o ubi est sub ubi?

Posted at 10:30AM on Feb 11th 2009 by pink

13. No wonder all you illiterate posters don't have jobs.....

Posted at 10:23AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Reese

14. Do you whiny TMZ boys really believe all this garbage you spew?

Alex Rodriguez, roids or not, is the greatest player in the game. He was in the wrong, but you don't sit on your butt and eat ding dongs, then shoot a needle and become an athlete. To be the best, he has to go the extra mile.

But see, that's the difference between being a good athlete and elite. Working that much harder. There's also the difference between being Tom Cruise and being a TMZ fanboy that chases him around asking him questions.

Posted at 10:27AM on Feb 11th 2009 by JakeMcClain

15. & like writting here pays?....Why write it just scib it.

Posted at 10:30AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Yes yes because you said

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