{"id":162,"date":"2016-11-23T18:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riveramarketingandmediagroup.com\/Test\/RayNegronV2\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:12:27","slug":"negron-aroldis-chapman-ii-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraynegronstory.com\/columns\/negron-aroldis-chapman-ii-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Negron: Aroldis Chapman II \u2013 An Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been writing for New York sports day for about six months. I was sitting outside gate four staring at the old Yankee stadium site, actually daydreaming about yesteryear and what I considered the greatest days in Yankee history. I get my incentive and motivation to write my books especially my children\u2019s books by doing this a couple of times a day. One day as I was sitting there, Joe McDonald, the publisher of NY Sports Day<\/em> happened to walk by and started a conversation with me. He talked to me about his website and asked if I would be interested in writing a column for him.<\/p>\n

I told him that I was already writing a column for Chris Ruddy and Newsmax<\/em> and I told Joe that as long as I had the freedom to write about what I considered beautiful human interest subjects pertaining to sports and entertainment and not edited, then I was in. I told him that I would write about some of the biggest stars in the world but only about the beauty of the artist. I will let everyone else write about the rest.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the great relief pitcher, Aroldis Chapman. The story was supposed to be a total complementary type story about a true artist of his craft. Writing for NY Sports Day<\/em>, I thought the story would be just that but it wasn\u2019t. It took on a life of its own. It went viral. I finally know what going viral means especially when I get a call from a friend in London and from another in Tokyo. I thought, \u201cOh God, what did I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that moment I called one of Chapman\u2019s agents because I\u2019m the type of person that has to confront possible negative situations head on. I told the agent that I had written the story to show everyone what a terrific individual Chapman is. I emphasized to him that Chapman did say to me that this was a business. The agent told me that he had not read the piece so I texted it to him.<\/p>\n

I am writing this column to apologize to Aroldis Chapman and his agents. When I wrote this piece it was meant to be a small sweet piece, not the giant that it turned out to be. The last thing that I would ever want to do is to hurt Aroldis in anyway. This guy is the hardest worker in sports and just a good guy.<\/p>\n

I guess I have seen the movie \u201cThe Pride of the Yankees\u201d so many times that I almost envisioned myself in the role of Walter Brennan (the reporter that was always protecting Lou Gehrig) but in this case it backfired on me.<\/p>\n

The great Yankee owner George Steinbrenner used to say to me, \u201cSometimes you care too much about these guys (as I do) and someday you\u2019ll find out that this truly is a business.\u201d I guess I still haven\u2019t found out.<\/p>\n

I will close by saying that I wish Aroldis Chapman and his family good luck in whatever city he ends up playing baseball in. Thank you for being a great highlight reel at Yankee Stadium and in all of baseball this year.<\/p>\n

Ray Negron can be heard every Sunday on his show \u201cImpact\u201d 0n 1050 am ESPN Deportes from 11 am to 1 pm and read on Newsmax.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been writing for New York sports day for about six months. I was sitting outside gate four staring at the old Yankee stadium site, actually daydreaming about yesteryear and what I considered the greatest days in Yankee history. I get my incentive and motivation to write my books especially my children\u2019s books by … <\/p>\n

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