| A-Rod acquires new tabloid nickname: 'Stray-Rod' |
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| Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:38 |
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TORONTO (AP) -Alex Rodriguez made the cover of the New York Post on Wednesday - and not because of the New York Yankees' latest slump. ``STRAY-ROD'' blared the Page 1 headline across a picture of A-Rod and an unidentified woman. ``Alex hits strip club with mystery blonde,'' it continued. The Post said the pair entered an elevator at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto - near the Park Hyatt where most of the Yankees stayed - after dinner at a steak house Sunday night. They later went to a strip club, the newspaper said. An inside headline called him a ``YANKEE DOODLE RANDY.'' ``Cynthia Rodriguez - A-Rod's wife and mother of their 2 1/2-year-old daughter Natasha - was nowhere to be seen,'' the Post said. Rodriguez had little to say on the matter before Wednesday's game against Toronto. ``Absolutely no comment about anything personal and I certainly don't think this will be a distraction to our team,'' he said. Asked whether it would be a distraction to him personally, Rodriguez said, ``No, I don't think so.'' ``I think everything probably got blown out of proportion like always,'' outfielder Johnny Damon said. Manager Joe Torre agreed: ``When you get into that area, I think it's over the line. It's what people seem to think is important or seem to think they have to do. ``In New York, there are so many more things that you talk about on a regular basis in addition to baseball,'' Torre added. ``When I took this job I certainly knew it wasn't going to be about hitting and running and changing pitchers.'' Torre said Rodriguez discussed the tabloid story with him. ``Alex is a big boy,'' Torre said. ``I know how serious he takes his baseball. It really wasn't an issue for me in the fact that he wouldn't be ready to play tonight. ``My job is to keep the distractions from carrying over onto the playing field,'' Torre said. The Yankees began the day at 21-29 and 14 1/2 games behind Boston in the AL East. |
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