Alex Rodriguez And Pressure Do Not Get Along

Alex Rodriguez' wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, told the YES Network’s YESterday’s program about what a man her husband was during the birth of their first child:

“As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation,” Cynthia Rodriguez said, according to excerpts released Tuesday by YES. “I don’t know why I thought the birth of our child would be different. In the middle of the night, I realized that I needed to go to the hospital. I wake him up. The first thing that comes out of his mouth, ‘Can we call your mother?’

"A few hours later, I said, ‘I think you can call my mom now.’ Uh, and the color came back to his face when I told him he could call my mom.”

And when they got to the hospital, things went from bad to worse for Alex:

“The one nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was like rubbing his back. And he is passed out on a couch. And I am there, in the middle of labor,”

“And really, I am not being paid much attention to besides the doctor and a couple of nurses,” she said. “And he is there moaning. In between pushing, I am going, ‘Honey, are you OK?’ and ‘Are you breathing? Are you OK?'"

Has Alex Rodriguez ever come through in the clutch? I thought not.

I know that it's hard for some guys to watch their child being born, some guys can get a little queasy. I fully understand that. However, it's not as if the doctor asked Alex to field the kid when it popped out of the shoot, all he had to do is stand beside his wife, rub her hand and talk to her. No one asked him to stick on a rubber glove and pull the kid out, he didn't even have to see the mess, all he had to do was show up and support his wife.

But that wouldn't be Alex Rodriguez, oh no. Alex is such a self-absorbed prick that he had to make the birth of his kid all about him. Alex needed his widdle backy wubbed cuz he was feeling sicky-poo. Alex needed a nurse to put a cold towwa on his widdle head because he wasn't feeling well. Alex this, Alec that, boo hoo.

Hey, Rodriguez, how about you finally start to cowboy the fuck up for a change. Just because there's pressure doesn't mean you have to fold faster than an illegal at a dry cleaners.

Spine, meet Alex Rodriguez, I know you two haven't met before...