Red Sox-Yankees, A-rod saves boy (for sex)

The series is tied 3-3 for the season, the only way it should be. Last nights was a classic. Sheffield gets swatted by a fan and freaks out, teams rush out to outfield, police charge in...Just like old times. I was glad to see it, this series had been lacking the chaos that usually occurs in Boston. Not sure what will come of that incident, but I was just glad to see it. My favorite part though was in the 9th inning. Sox up by 3, yanks got two on, no outs, and A-rod comes to the plate as the tying run. "What a chance for redemption! A-rod could quiet his critics here and Boston and really turn things around for himself!" (The exclamation points are to indicate the ridiculousness of the YES announcers. They are atrocious and annoying.) Standard stuff, no surprise there. Then the announcer says, "But A-rod is already a hero today here in Boston. He told us earlier in the day he pulled a child out of harms way, saving him from being hit by a truck!" Here's the article.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2037788
Note that this was reported by A-rod, no quotes from parents. If the parents do emerge in other stories later, they were paid and should be treated with the same respect as the parents of Michael Jackson's victims. The kid's name is McCarthy and he claims A-rod is his favorite yankee. What the child fails to mention is that he is the son of A-rod's publicist, and his father wasn't around because he was the one driving the truck that almost hit him. What a load of fucking bullshit. This couldn't be more transparent than if they happened to be taping an A-rod interview when it occurred. On video: A-rod, "You know, I'm just a ball player, I try to go out and play hard everyday. OH MY GOD, WATCH OUT YOUNG MAN. A-ROD WILL SAVE YOU!" Boy, "Thank you kind sir, that truck almost ended my young promising life! Oh my, your A-rod! Even though I'm a die hard Red Sox fan with an Irish last name, you are my favorite yankee!" This is a ludicrous scenario. A-rod is the most hated yankee since Clemens and Boggs. If that kid is really from Boston, which I doubt, he is getting his ass kicked at school everyday until he buys a black trench coat and some semi-automatic weapons in high school.
Just comical, this pushes A-rod's douche bag factor off the charts. Every investigative reporter in Boston better be on this like it was the Kennedy assassination.
On the plus side, A-rod hit a towering flyball to left that was caught on the warning track. Failed to move the runners and made first out of what would prove to be a frightening but futile effort at a comeback. SUCK IT A-ROD!