sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/5/2009
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NEW YORK -- The last image we saw of Alex Rodriguez in the 2009 season was very different from the first one. In the beginning, A-Rod was, as he has so often been throughout a career marked by excesses of tumult and talent, the center of attention for all the wrong reasons. In February, he sat ...
joeposnanski.com - 30 days ago
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The following is a screed about the Yankees
payroll. If you are a Yankees fan uninterested in...
a screed about the payroll, don’t read it. You won’t enjoy it. Go out, buy a championship T-shirt, reminisce about this great team, enjoy the ...
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The Yankees Payroll
sports.yahoo.com - 11/5/2009
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NEW YORK — It only took six seasons
with the Yankees and 16 years overall, but Alex...
Rodriguez (notes) can finally call himself a World Series champion. The controversial third baseman is no longer among the greatest players to never win a ...
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A-Rod brings home the hardware, drinks up clubhouse fun
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 30 days ago
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
The following is a screed about the Yankees'
payroll. If you are a Yankees fan uninterested in...
a screed about the payroll, don't read it. You won't enjoy it. Go out, buy a championship T-shirt, reminisce about this great team, enjoy the victory. I'm ...
(more)
The best team money could buy
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The Pop-Psychologizing Of Alex Rodriguez Will Never End [Duan!]
Deadspin —
... and inner-directed to win, Rodriguez is being subjected to yet more inane psychologizing. Here's Ronald Blum of the Associated Press: But this was a new A-Rod, liberated and transformed in his 16th big league season. Finally starting to grow up at age 34, he shed the distractions caused by his $275 million contract and an entourage of handlers he picked up from Madonna. He glowed in his relationship with new girlfriend Kate Hudson. Ted Keith of SI.com: If the legacies of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy ...
"Long is the way...
Pinstripe Alley —
... Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez weren't enough. We had the best player in baseball and couldn't get it done. He couldn't get it done.
Then it got even worse for Alex. He had a messy divorce, hooked up with a crazy woman, and got exposed as a cheater. On top of all that, he received news that he might miss the whole 2009 season with a hip injury. It was his own personal hell.
No one could have predicted at the time, but that sequence of events was probably the best thing to ever happen to him.
When his PED usage came out and hip surgery ...
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A-Rod, where did you go?
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Alex Rodriguez has 6 strikeouts, thus far, in the World Series. He’s performing like it’s 2006.
Here’s Tom Verducci’s (SI) take on A-Rod’s first two games of the series:
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A-Rod - who else? - makes World Series history
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A bittersweet climb to the top —
NY Post: Sports 30 days ago
Alex Rodriguez didn’t want to celebrate prematurely, he knows better, but he couldn’t help himself, couldn’t keep his arms from flying in the air and his mouth from opening wide, couldn’t keep the roar from spilling out of his heart and through his t...
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