92 weeks in, SI gets to know P-Rod
September 17, 2009 by Mike CasazzaCarr kept an Oxford English Dictionary outside his office. Players who came to visit were expected to look up a word and jot its definition on one of the index cards provided. He was known to quote Jefferson, Churchill and Kipling. At his introductory press conference Rodriguez quoted Rafiki, the monkey in The Lion King. While Carr is a former English teacher and a stickler for grammar, Rodriguez is the bane of grammarians, some of whom have publically complained about his use of ain’t in press conferences.