A-Rod co-hosts ‘Live with Kelly’, chats with Cubs’ Schwarber

Alex Rodriguez was behind in a batter’s box Thursday — well, arrange of.

A-Rod co-hosted “Live with Kelly” with star Kelly Ripa and a dual took batting use on a travel outward a ABC’s Manhattan studio with Cubs’ star Kyle Schwarber, a guest on a show.

“I told you, I’m retired,” Rodriguez quipped when he took a furious pitch during one of Ripa’s pitches. Still, it was transparent A-Rod was carrying fun and his coming seemed like another clever at-bat, if we will, in his burgeoning broadcasting career.

Rodriguez, who worked on-air with Fox’s coverage of a ball postseason, was self-deprecating during a show, joking about how his daughters, 11 and 8, ridicule him for still owning a Blackberry.

“They remind we of dual things, how aged we are and how uncool we are,” Rodriguez joked.

Much of a speak was about a World Series and a Cubs’ victory, their initial championship given 1908. Rodriguez seemed to conclude covering history, job it “a great, American, conceptual story.”

He talked about how he had cooking with Schwarber during a Fall Classic — a dual talked hitting, natch. And when Schwarber talked about a Cubs’ World Series celebration, A-Rod admitted, “I’m still merrymaking from 2009.”

That, of course, is a pretension he won with a Yankees.

Rodriguez, now an confidant to Hal Steinbrenner, certified he misses being on a field.

“You’re always going to skip playing,” he said. “I skip a locker room and we skip my 4 at-bats. But we was so beholden to have a good finish and we appreciate Hal Steinbrenner for that. we finished in front of my mother, my daughters, a fans of New York. for me, it was a ideal ending.”

He lives in Miami now, though pronounced he still has a New York unit and a city “is always going to be partial of my life.”

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