Why A-Rod’s retirement devise is a charade

All a tension and nearby tears could not drown a media’s cynicism. Why would anybody have reason to doubt Alex Rodriguez? Or Yankees coronet looking to make a post-playing purpose for a sinister slugger relocating forward?

Yet even on this sold Sunday when he set Friday as his final day in Pinstripes (no doubt providing a Yankees with one final large measure in sheet sales and TV ratings), A-Rod couldn’t remonstrate trainer scribes, and other meddlesome parties, that Hal Steinbrenner didn’t jam this deal, “releasing” him and creation him a “special adviser,” down his throat.

Neither could Steinbrenner, who should have been in a Bronx to answer questions. He inaugurated to spin from distant by a sorcery of paper and a press release, that can’t answer questions. Steinbrenner’s biggest fulfilment here was creation certain his lackeys didn’t trickle what was going down to their favorite media mouthpieces.

Anyway, if we trust a celebration line, Friday, opposite a Rays, will be Rodriguez’s final day as a Major League Baseball player. This representation was perceived with healthy skepticism. Especially deliberation it’s entrance from a male who once told a giveaway universe he had schooled his lesson, and was finished with drugs, usually to again acknowledge he was regulating PEDs. And from an classification that: 1) knows it sealed an awful agreement prolongation with Rodriguez 2)watched as he attempted suing them.

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The doubt also resulted from ball analysts who know what a diversion means to Rodriguez. This is another reason because a whole “retirement” plan, notwithstanding a mistake frank approach it was presented, is a charade.

After a scarcely hour-long reverence featuring A-Rod, Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi ended, John Flaherty (only on YES) pronounced Rodriguez was not a associate who unexpected walked in a hall and said: “I can’t play anymore.”

“I consider he believes he still can, though this (adviser to Steinbrenner) attribute with a Yankees is going to pierce brazen now,” Flaherty said. “And we consternation after a integrate of weeks if Alex Rodriguez says: ‘You know what, we skip this (game already) so most we wish to revisit (my preference to retire).’ ”

Jack Curry seconded that emotion, saying: “I don’t consider he’s ever going to stop meditative like a player. In this instance, he was forced to stop meditative like a player.”

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Rodriguez was meditative like a Yankees PR user when a few trainer scribes cut by a prefabricated Candy Land unfolding in an try to get A-Rod to offer specifics on what went down with Steinbrenner.

Q: “Did Hal ask we to retire?”

A-Rod: “I’m going to keep those conversations private…..”

Q: “Did a Yankees radically give we an final here that said, ‘Let’s work out something where we both have some beauty walking out of this or else we are going to recover you?’”

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A-Rod: “I don’t consider a conversations got that aggressive. we didn’t consider they indispensable to. we have measureless honour for Hal Steinbrenner. we unequivocally focused on a certain partial of a conversation….”

There are 27 million positives due A-Rod, that he will collect in full. And a devise where everybody walks divided with their face intact. Reality, or what upheld for it during this late morning fantasia, is a Yankees couldn’t caring reduction what Rodriguez does after he is strictly expelled following his Pinstriped culmination Friday.

Cashman, who paid his respects to A-Rod during his apportionment of a gabfest, including praising him as a extensive evaluator of ball talent, pronounced as most when asked if Rodriguez was giveaway to join another team, or enter a new profession, immediately after he is released.

“He does have a ability to do that, or go into broadcasting,” Cashman said. “….He can do anything he wants.”

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Say what?

After this large buildup of his analysis and motivating skills from Hal (again, around press release) and Cashman, live in a Bronx, it’s fine if A-Rod splits? If he’s that good assisting immature players and evaluating them, wouldn’t we go a additional mile (whatever that is) to keep him in a organization?

Go a additional mile to make certain another group doesn’t sinecure this implausible talent evaluator?

Not if this was zero some-more than an exercise-say anything, do anything — so a Yankees and Rodriguez could travel divided from any other with “grace,” and dignity.

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This is only another victimless criminal pursuit in a universe of sports. The participants are a billionaire player, whom a media incited into a sensitive figure, and a storied authorization value zillions that wanted to get absolved of a pain in a donkey who has run out of juice, er, gas.

A-Rod’s romantic display might have helped that mission. Even near-tears sell. But this is zero some-more than dual absolute players (A-Rod and Steinbrenner) in a party attention slicing a behind room deal.

At slightest A-Rod didn’t say: “Today I’m a luckiest male on a face of a earth.”

Maybe Friday. 

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