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Over at New York magazine, Will Leitch weighs in on the latest Alex Rodriguez circus:
As we watch A-Rod's tabloid excoriation across our tabloid media this week—He's having an affair with Madonna! No, it's only spiritual! He dates strippers and bodybuilders! He's a bad dad!—it's worth considering that the breakup that has landed A-Rod in his predicament isn't necessarily the one with his wife, Cynthia; it's the one he had with Scott Boras last October.Over the past sixteen years, Boras was the one constant in A-Rod's life. A-Rod's job was simple: Hit baseballs a very long way. Boras, his agent, managed his money, public image, contract negotiations, you name it. Then, when negotiations with the Yankees went haywire, he dumped Boras, and Madonna's longtime manager, Guy Oseary, was hired to remake A-Rod's image. Which has happened now, spectacularly.
You can say that again.
Ugh.
Agree with Will's piece.
Alex, just as much as Madonna, loves to be on the front pages. No one as smart as Alex Rodriguez would say and do the things he does without a burning desire to have everyone talk about him. The idea that he's going to traipse around Toronto with that man woman without even wearing a hat and sunglasses and be shocked when someone takes a picture of him is laughable. He wanted to be caught.
I really don't care much for Alex Rodriguez the person. I think he cares for no one but Alex Rodriguez. But god damn can he play baseball, and as long as he does that, I'm glad to have him on the team.
By the way, it's nice to see stuff from Will Leitch quoted here. I loved him on Deadspin.
;-)
Is there anything about the Yankees you don't hate?
(you know the rest, mi amigo >;)
9 Very nice.
She's tried everything else, maybe the next time she reinvents herself she'll come from Alabama with a banjo on her knee...
More than a bit.
Despite myself. :)
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