News: Ike Davis Debut, J-Rod Exposed
Ike Davis made his professional debut last night with the Brooklyn Cyclones, going 1 for 4 with a double and a run 
scored while playing in the outfield.
For more on the game, check out Toby Hyde’s recap at Mets Minor League Blog.
Yesterday, I wasted every one’s time blogging about Juan ‘J-Rod’ Rodriguez and his post about Davis to his blog for the Times Herald-Record.
According to Rodriguez, Davis and some of his teammates disrespected a female reporter, who requested an interview for a report she was writing, using ‘cat calls.’
However, according to Hyde, in a separate post on the subject at Mets Minor League Blog, citing a Cyclones rep, the ‘cat calls’ were made by Davis’s teammates towards Davis, adding:
“This might sound hard to believe, but it’s possible. I’ve seen this exact routine in minor league clubhouse. When a reporter ignores everyone else and goes straight for the big-name guy, his teammates will start chirping.”
Additionally, as Mark Healey points out in column for Gotham Baseball Magazine, Rodriguez has altered and updated his original blog post on several occasions today.
In his column, which is a must read, Healey writes:
“I called the paper to find out how it was possible for that story to have been published when ‘J-Rod’ said that Davis refused to talk to her. The person who I spoke with said “Huh?”, and then put me on hold for 10 minutes. Then, like magic, a paragraph in J-Rod’s blog stated, ‘David finally agreed to sit down with her to do the interview.’ Only it wasn’t a new entry, it now appears in J-Rod’s ‘original’ blog (that doesn’t have any edited stamps on it by the way). Oh, and later in the blog, when he states ‘Ike Davis needs to act like a man, not a punk,’ the word ‘punk’ no longer appears, but the awkward edit where he removed it remains.”
In fact, Ed Ryan was wise enough to copy and paste Rodriguez+’s original, yet-to-edited post at Mets Fever.
…nice work by heals, toby and ed…thanks, guys…
