TAMPA – There’s no need for Alex Rodriguez to apologize to Brett Gardner. The Yankees’ center field wannabe insisted yesterday that he’s forgiven his drug-tainted teammate.
“I know I already have,” Gardner said yesterday when asked if he believed every player would forgive Rodriguez and move on. “He’s our teammate, and I think everybody else with the organization hopefully has, and if they haven’t, they will. And we can all work together and work towards our goal of making it to the playoffs and hopefully playing for a World Series.
“I can’t speak for everybody else, but I know that I have.”
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Rodriguez is, based on his stats, obviously one of the greatest players in the game now and arguably one of the greatest in history as well. He should eventually surpass Barry Bonds’ all-time home run record, and over the last 10 years he has the most homers, RBIs and runs in baseball.
But despite Rodriguez’s iconic stature, the 25-year-old Gardner said he wasn’t disappointed that some of A-Rod’s accomplishments might now be tainted.
“I don’t know that I was disappointed because over the last several years a lot of that stuff has come out, and I don’t think that anybody expected that he had done anything, but I’m just glad that he admitted his mistake,” Gardner said. “And hopefully everybody, players, fans, media, everybody will forgive him for it and we can get past it.”