Alex Planting Roots?
From the Post -
Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez is eyeing a stunning new $25 million estate in Greenwich, Conn. – strongly suggesting he plans on remaining with the Bronx Bombers beyond this season, The Post has learned.
The Lake Carrington Estate is a sprawling 9-acre lakefront property dominated by a Georgian-style stone mansion spanning 35,000 square feet.
Inside are seven bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, nine fire places, a 45-foot-long indoor lap pool, a basketball court, a 20,000-bottle wine cellar and a 20-seat home theater. Outside are three other buildings, including a fishing and ice-skating hut.
And it would cost Rodriguez, who now lives on Park Avenue, an extra $5 million to finish the mansion’s interior, which for now is just framed out.
Rodriguez’s interest in the property comes as the Yankees have indicated they want to negotiate a new contract to avoid letting A-Rod become a free agent in November, when he can exercise an opt-out clause on the remaining three years of his existing contract.
Just off of exclusive Round Hill Road in northern Greenwich, the Lake Carrington Estate and its mansion is being developed by locally based Antares Investment Partners on spec – without a buyer in place.
“Rodriguez’s representative has looked at the property in the last few weeks,” a source familiar with the situation told The Post.
That representative is Lynn Cone – the real-estate-broker wife of former Yankees and Mets pitcher David Cone, sources confirmed. Lynn Cone could not be reached for comment, and A-Rod’s sports agent, Scott Boras, did not return a call seeking comment.
Rodriguez, his wife, Cynthia, 34, and Lynn Cone recently dined at Polpo Restaurant & Saloon in Greenwich – one of several restaurants in town whose backers include Antares Investment Partners.
I’m sure the Mets are just as happy (as the Yankees) to hear about this potential purchase. Remember, the Yankees are not the only team in town. On the bright side, these digs are about 3 hours away from Fenway. That’s a pretty long drive, each way, on a daily basis.
Maybe I’m naive, but the Yankees want A-Rod back, the Yankees can afford to pay him the most, the Yankees receive a break for the next three years due to the deal with Texas, and Boras will want to take his player to where he can make the most money (and likely get the first $30 million a year contract) unless the player insists on otherwise. So I think it’s highly unlikely that A-Rod is going anywhere else, even across town to Shea.
~~~Inside are seven bedrooms, 17 bathrooms~~~
Does that make sense for a place to have so many bathrooms versus bedrooms? The ratio just doesn’t make sense. I’ve never had a place with more than 1 1/2 bathrooms so I really don’t know anything, BUT with so many bathrooms that would make it impossible for ARod to ever shit on himself again (i.e 2004 ALCS, 2005 ALDS, and 2006 ALDS).
There is no way on earth that George loses A-Rod to the Mets–let alone anyone else. The closest thing present-day baseball has to Babe Ruth will spend the remainder of his career playing in the House that George Built.
I’ve also heard that A-Rod has bought a condo in a new building being built on 88th Street and East End Avenue. It would seem like he’s interested in staying, based on his recent real estate ventures. That being said, when you’re loaded like he is, I don’t think buying property means anything. Maybe it is for his wife? Maybe it is for relatives? Who knows. I don’t think this tells us anything one way or another.
That being said, 17 bathrooms? The bed-to-bath ratio is ridiculous. Very strange.
I agree that 17 bathrooms is ridiculous, but that’s how rich people houses work. You have to figure that there’s at least a few for whereever the regular bedrooms are, there’s probably a master bedroom suite with it’s own bathroom, a bathroom by the pool, one by the basketball court, one in each of the additional buildlings, one by the home theater, a guest bathroom of some sort near the living/dining room, there’s probably a play room or something, family room or something, and there’s a bathroom there.
Rich people have a lot of space in the house. Can you imagine having only 3 bedrooms spread out over those 35,000 square feet? You’d have to jog every time you had to go to the bathroom.
snowball, Yeah I know rich people live by a different standard than the rest of us, I’m not hating on them or their 17 bathrooms. I just found the ratio extremely odd. It just seems like the Rodriguez, if they get this property, will be spending a lot of time urinating and defecating in their new property.
Do you think they have a competition as to who can do #2 first in all 17 bathrooms? What better way to baptize the new place.
If Cynthia wins then she gets a brand new shirt that reads, “F- you, A-hole”, if ARod wins then he gets a blond “manly” looking stripper chick. Sounds like a party in CT!!!!!!
Garcia–I’m totally with you. It is odd. So that’s why I was trying to figure out where they’d put their 17 bathrooms. So I decided to share what I came up with.
What does the mini-Rodriguez get if she wins the race?
She gets to go and play with one of Elijah Dukes’ kids.