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ASSHOLE!!! Love that guy but not after seeing him take out all the camera guys tonight...ohhh what i would give to be one of those camera guys...i would've punched him...*****!! what the point in that?? now he looks like a jackass and he's actually a good guy! Here's a big :finger: to you Kenny...quit punching coolers!!
 

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Him and Jeremy Roenick are probably cousins, totally premeditated by Rodgers. Why even come out of the dugout if you know your going to have cameras all over you and your going to start picking them off one by one.
 

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ARLINGTON, Texas - Kenny Rogers' angry close-up with a couple of television cameramen put one of them in the hospital and could result in a suspension for the Texas Rangers' ace.

Rogers shoved two cameramen before the Rangers' game against Los Angeles on Wednesday in a videotaped tirade that included throwing a camera to the ground and threatening to break more.

"Kenny is having anger issues right now," Rangers general manager John Hart said. "I don't know what's going on inside. We're responding to something that's very unusual."

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Rogers, who missed his last start with a broken pinkie he sustained during an outburst earlier this month, lashed out at the cameramen as they filmed him walking to the field for pregame stretching. He wasn't scheduled to pitch and was sent home by the club following the incidents.

The Rangers held a clubhouse meeting before the game to address the situation. After the game, a 7-6 victory over the Angels in 11 innings, they lent their support to Rogers.

"It's something we're going to keep in-house," said Gary Matthews Jr., who hit a two-run homer for the Rangers. "It's going to be between Kenny and the front office."

Hart said late Wednesday that the team contacted Major League Baseball, and wouldn't say whether the team would suspend Rogers.

Hart said he had talked to Rogers and "Kenny obviously realizes his actions were incorrect."

"His comment to me was, `I didn't handle this right. I'm frustrated. My integrity and toughness is being called into question,'" Hart said.

The 40-year-old left-hander first shoved Fox Sports Net Southwest photographer David Mammeli, telling him: "I told you to get those cameras out of my face."

Rogers then approached a second cameraman. He wrestled the camera from Larry Rodriguez of Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW, threw it to the ground and kicked it.

The 6-foot-1, 210-pound pitcher saw two other cameramen who were recording from the Rangers' dugout and walked toward them. He did not make contact with the men, who were backing away.

"I'll break every ... one of them," Rogers said before he was escorted to the clubhouse by catcher Rod Barajas.

The Rangers sent Rogers home about an hour later.

KDFW news director Maria Barrs said paramedics took Rodriguez to an Arlington hospital.

"He does have quite a bit of pain, in his shoulder and his arm and his leg," Barrs said. Rodriguez was treated and released.

Fox Sports Net Southwest spokesman Ramon Alvarez said Mammeli wasn't injured.

Footage shot by Dallas-Fort Worth station KTVT shows Rogers pushing Rodriguez's camera, which goes over the photographer's head and falls to the ground. As Rodriguez puts the camera back on his shoulder, Rogers approaches again, pushing the lens away and having words with the photographer.

As players begin to intervene, Rogers pulls the camera to the ground and kicks it before walking away.

Rodriguez said that when he picked up the camera the second time, his intentions were to keep getting footage of Rogers.

"I figured since now he vented that he was all good, but the second time was just a little bit too much," he said in an interview on KDFW.

"There's no question he was upset. I don't understand why we were the ... I don't know if we were the stem of the problem or what," he said. "I don't think we did anything wrong."

Texas lost eight of nine entering Wednesday night's game.

"I think it demonstrated an appalling lack of control," Barrs said. "The team doing poorly is no excuse for assaulting a guy who's just doing his job."

Arlington police spokeswoman Christy Gilfour said the department was investigating. No charges had been filed, she said.

"What Kenny did was wrong and we won't condone it," Rangers owner Tom Hicks said. "It will be handled internally."

Rogers, who leads the team with nine wins, has refused to talk to reporters all season. He has also boycotted most media since a report before spring training that he threatened to retire if he wasn't given a contract extension.

"Kenny has had a short fuse dealing with the media," Hicks said. "I've heard stories about what may or may not have happened. He has issues. It's directed at the media and I don't know why."
 

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asshole...thought he was a good guy in the league too!
 

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"Kenny has had a short fuse dealing with the media,"

Really never would have thought that! That Drese trade might have f... up some decent clubhouse chemistry, anyways I don't care as I'm an Angels fan
 

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Maybe he needs to learn when to walk away, and when to run.
 

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If i was a cameraman in Arlington tongiht....He would be running...I would get fired at my job to take one of those son of a bitches out.... I was this " close to bein one of them and I couldn't even fathom doin anything like that unless someone came out of the stands at someone....fair game if you come into the field..cameraman..not ever!! Kenny Rogers...always loved the guy until tonight...now he's a *****!!! Will be sure to give him shit next time i see him!!!
 

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The cameraman wen to the hospital with neck, arm, and back pain. Sounds like a law suit to me.




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when that gutless puss pitched here in ny he damn near cried in every post game press conference.that the fans and press were to tough on him.what a sissy titty boy.
 

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How much will this cost Kenny? atleast 250K

he would have never did this in New York...what a sad story
 

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I thought there were always three sides to every story! You guys would be good on a 'lynch ' mob!:party: Me personally always liked it when he hooked up with Dolly, what great harmony!:toast: P.S. Never did like his roasters though!:smoker2:
 

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He lost me when he walked in the winning run in the 1999 playoffs against the Braves while pitching for the Mets, thus giving the braves the series 4-2. Not that he had to do a Niedenfuer, and never pitch effectively again or worse be like Donnie Moore. He just seemed uninterested in the whole thing, a hired gun, like a self centered character in "Arliss".
 

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I think he was just sick and tired of everyone considering him the Coward of the County.
 

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Rogers is yet ANOTHER guy getting better the closer he got to age 40

He's made 4 all star teams in his career, 3 of the 4 were at age 39-40-41
 

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Who cares...

we all would have done the same or something similar pushed hard enough...he displayed excellence on the hill this evening.
 

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