The Bumpy Road Ahead For A-Rod This Season
Via George King -
As his teammates jumped into dress slacks and shirts with buttons for a flight to Pittsburgh late yesterday afternoon, Alex Rodriguez donned jeans, a T-shirt and bolted the Yankees’ clubhouse long before the team bus split for the airport.
Rodriguez, who is at the beginning of what many predict will be a nasty divorce, didn’t accompany the Yankees to Pittsburgh. Instead, he will arrive today for tonight’s makeup game against the Pirates.
“He had to take care of something,” Joe Girardi said of Rodriguez and wouldn’t elaborate further.
I was just thinking about this yesterday…watching the afternoon news during lunch…and making note of all the coverage the media – both the tabliods and ‘mainstream’ outlets – is throwing at the Christie Brinkley divorce case.
I mean…Christie Brinkley? Do we really care that Christie Brinkley is getting divorced?
If the Brinkley case is any yardstick, the A-Rod divorce case – because of his money, because he’s a Yankee, and because of the Madonna factor – is going to be a media circus.
And, how that’s going to be a good thing for Alex, and the Yankees, this season…well, I just don’t see it happening…do you?
Brinkley split with the perv architect in 2006, and the divorce went to trial now. What makes you think this divorce will have any effect on this season?
And when you’ve got a perfect storm coming together – first super model with huge home in the Hamptons, philandering pervert for a husband, trial in public when it could have been closed to the press – of course you are going to get ridiculous saturation coverage in the tabs.
What I would worry about right now is the likelihood that everywhere the Yankees play, entire stadiums are going to start singing “Like a Virgin” every time he comes to the plate. If not in Pittsburgh, Toronto seems like the perfect place for fans to give it to him, after last season’s “Ha!” and then later in the month Boston. A-Rod will get a break since the Yankees play so many times at home but I could see this taking off in a big way.
~~What makes you think this divorce will have any effect on this season?~~
A. A-Rod is already doing things related to it now…like not traveling with the team.
B. Do a google news search on A-Rod and Madonna…and see the steam it’s already building in the media.
And, FWIW, the two cases are already crossing over…
from the Boston Herald today…
~~~And speaking of Mrs. A-Rod, New York’s other scorned woman, Christie Brinkley, who is in the midst of her own messy divorce trial from cheatin’ spouse Peter Cook, had some words of advice for Cyn.
“I think that the best advice I could give Ms. Rodriguez is to hire (my lawyer) Bob Cohen,” the aging supermodel told the New York Daily News.~~~
My point is that the divorce won’t be near a trial anytime this season. So what is different from the earlier media frenzy when the news was about Madonna and not his wife’s response to his transgressions?
A-Rod will continue to avoid the press and that’s it. Not traveling with the team isn’t going to have any effect. Let me know when he starts asking to miss games because of this, then there will be an effect – but he won’t do that under any circumstances.
What I would worry about right now is the likelihood that everywhere the Yankees play, entire stadiums are going to start singing “Like a Virgin” every time he comes to the plate.
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Even so, so what?
Let’s see if this’ll affect his performance on the field. He’s been serenaded with boos ever since he signed for $252M, so I guess this is something he’s used to.
Yeah, but those will be unique “boos”.
I actually agree that A-Rod will probably play through it like nothing is going on. But ten thousand voices singing “Like a Virgin” will definitely be a Sportscenter highlight. If Red Sox fans organized the blonde girl masks of last year on short notice, I’m sure they’ll have people outside the park passing out lyric sheets.