Even A-Rod can't rescue this Yankees team

 
As much as he played it down, you knew that Alex Rodriguez had to be loving this, the whole "A-Rod will revive the Yankees!" story line. How far I've come in this town, he must have told himself, from scapegoat to savior. [link]

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