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Tit for tat: A-Rod's wife opts out of marriage contract
But maybe Cynthia Rodriguez started wondering what she'd look like if she wore Dodger blue, the way A-Rod wondered out loud the first time he ever issued divorce papers -- to the Seattle Mariners. Goodness knows A-Rod knows a few things about broken deals.
Is it any wonder that Alex Rodriguez, the high school phenom drafted by the Seattle Mariners whose agent threatened to enroll A-Rod at the University of Miami unless the Mariners paid A-Rod a huge signing bonus, continues 'til this day to be the post boy for Infamy?
It is astounding, really, but it's true. All we have to do today is look at the front page of The New York Post -- and every other tabloid and every other online celebrity magazine.
A-Rod, Pay-Rod, Stray-Rod, D-Rod!
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I remember when Alex Rodriguez, the young Mariners star, used to sit in front of his locker and ask whether he should buy a gold necklace with the "No.3" on it or have one made that said "A-Rod." Who am I, he asked -- in all kinds of code language.
Ah, confusion, confusion for our little Alex, who still exudes the empty aura of a man with no firm identity.
Today, Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce from the multi-millionaire Yankee slugger. And the real intrigue has as much to do with D-Rod's apparent visits with Madonna. Leave it to Alex to have a 50-year-old Material Girl Madge as the public center of this divorce blockbuster. Whether or not they are having an affair, A-Rod does share an agent with Madonna -- a turn of events that, once again, proves A-Rod is not only unlucky in love, but jinxed when it comes to business and marketing decisions he makes.
See, it was A-Rod's disastrous reliance on super-agent Scott Boras that helped earn A-Rod the distinction of being the best and highest-paid player in baseball that NO ONE cares about. Who would listen to an agent after they sent you to the Texas Rangers for $252 million and years of AL West basement-dwelling?
Then Boras and A-Rod botched their first get-outta Texas deal with the Red Sox. Finally, Mr. Red Sox turned into Mr. Yankee, where Alex had to give up his position in deference to Derek Jeter. Alex's travails with Boras hit a high point last October whe, in the middle of the 2007 World Series, Boras dropped an on-air bombshell that it would cost the Yankees $350 million just to talk to Alex about a new contract, since Boras also announced that Alex had opted out.
That's when Alex FINALLY ditched Boras, negotiated a new deal with the Yankees, eating Boras' words and, in the end, enlisting the services of Guy Oseary, who is also the agent for, you got it, Madonna.
Is it true what they say in marketing 101, that bad publicity is better than no publicity? 'Cuz in A-Rod's case, that's all it's been and all it is again. The empty vessel with the shiny metal surface takes another ding.
Topics: A-Rod , divorce , Madonna , New York Post
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