This is once again her story. Instead of her writing it this time, she told it to another writer.

So, why would she continue to bring it to the media?

a) She wants attention.
b) She wants fame. (probably why she was with Alcides in the first place)
c) She’s crazy.
d) All of the above.

Is her story true? There’s a good chance of it, albeit, it’s probably an exaggeration. But her relentless pursuit of media attention only hurts her chances of having people believe what she says.

I’m not trying to discount what may have happened. If it’s true, Escobar is a complete jerk. But she is only making herself look that much worse by being so deadset on making a personal matter public.

I’m glad Leury is Omar Moreno’s daughter and has documents that confirm what she swore in an affidavit is the truth. It’s unfortunate she feels so wronged. But like Jordan said, I’d like to know more than just her side of things.

I have often thought Omar Moreno was the worst player in baseball in the 80s, for a dude who got non-trivial PAs

its his kid, and he should pay up.

But let’s be honest, probably the majority of professional athletes are not-so-great people in real life. I prefer to, as a person, say Escobar is a jerk – but as a sportsfan I really don’t think it should be relevant. Somebody like John Rocker is one thing – where he’s making racist comments to the media as an athlete – but I never understood why a player’s personal life (I’m reminded of the Barry Bonds witch hunt) should be the concern of the media or sports fans in general. When I root for Escobar on the field, its as a player/member of the Brewers/guy doing his job, not as a friend of mine.

Just as a personal anecdote, there are two pro athletes around the same age as me from my hometown; both of them excelled at sports from a fairly young age and (since that’s all they really know) generally got used to being treated better than everyone else around them, and they never really learned to not be jerks. And only one of those two is even good enough to be in a pro league right now; for players like Escobar who are so highly touted from a young age it’s probably even worse.

That’s why it’s all the more cool to see successful players who generally seem like really nice people in real life (i.e. – Craig Counsell). But I’m afraid they might be the exception.

I know we all have a dream that our favorite player is some awesome human being who rescue kittens out of trees and gets orphans out of the burning orphanage just in time on the weekends. But the truth is, probably all the players have a huge ego, screw around on their wives, and are just regular old assholes.

I’d like to think Alcides is a good guy, but all I really care about, and all that really matters to me is his performance on the field. ARod kisses a mirror of himself, that’s fin weird, but he performs on the field and hence he’s loved.

If we judged all the players on how they acted off the field, we’ve love Suppan more then anyone else. But what it all comes down to is if he performs. Look how much we loved Favre, not because he was a drug addict assface drama queen, but because he was good on the field.

PS – The court system will take care of all this, if its his child he’ll be paying enough.