Last week, Alex Rodriguez tweeted a picture with Manny Machado and Yonder Alonso at a Jay-Z concert.
“Uh oh”, Orioles fans collectively groined.
You may remember that last July, Machado told reporters that A-Rod was his favorite player and “will always be” his favorite player. Sort of a Miami-mentor type thing.
Last night on WBAL, O’s skipper Buck Showalter cleared things up. According to a series of tweets from MASNSports.com’s Roch Kubatko, Rodriguez walked over for a few minutes and someone took a picture. The two (or three if you include Alonso) weren’t at the concert together at all.
Which leads to me to my next question — did A-Rod go to a Jay-Z concert by himself? Poor guy…
The best part of this story though? Manny being surprised that Showalter knew who the hell Jay-Z was.
Isn’t Manny dating/engaged to/married to Alonso’s sister or something like that? I don’t have a problem with them being at a concert together.
Actually, I’d have found it more newsworthy if we saw A-Rod with B-Rob. Heh. *cries*
Machado is indeed engaged to Alonso’s sister. I tend to think A-Rod probably was hanging out with the three of them, but care a lot less than most people seem to.