Alex Rodriguez is really becoming a pariah, of sorts, for the New York media. Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet, and he's already being dragged through the mud about his holiday plans. You see, he's allegedly going to spend the break with Madonna instead of his children.
Instead of ushering in the holidays in Miami with his children, Natasha, 4, and Ella, 1 - A-Rod, 33, is hosting a dinner at his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, 50, and her kids, Lourdes, Rocco, and David, and manager Guy Oseary.
If that was really true, I'd have to agree it's a pretty selfish and brutal thing to do to your kids. I mean, Thanksgiving is a holiday where families generally spend time together -- unlike the night before.
Reports are surfacing, however, that contradict the above report from the New York Post. According to Us Magazine, the Post is completely wrong:
"He's going to be with Cynthia and her entire family for Thanksgiving, and this has been planned for months," the insider adds. "It's quite a big celebration."
"They have a large family get together every year," the source tells Us. "It was always his intention to go to the family get together with her family, and it includes a whole array of relatives."
While most of us will be donning our A-Rod jerseys or Madonna masks tonight at the Airhogs game, the real life Alex Rodriguez is still going through the divorce process with his soon to be former wife Cynthia Rodriguez right now. As we're all incredibly aware, Cynthia is leaving A-Rod because of his repeated infidelity, which quite possibly includes sleeping with Madonna.
Cynthia isn't coming off completely clean here, either, as she's been accused of cheating on Alex with Lenny Kravitz. It's all pretty much insane, really, and it probably couldn't get much more ridiculous than it already is. Well, unless it turns out that Alex is an alien from the planet Quaron-4 and has been sent to this planet to break Barry Bonds' home run record and bring back all our planets muscular blondes.
Of course, that's not likely to happen, but the fact that C-Rod is now saying that A-Rod put wiretaps on her phone and has had her followed might garner your attention.
Scorned baseball wife Cynthia Rodriguez wants to know if her estranged hubby, A-Rod, had her wiretapped and secretly tailed, according to explosive new court documents.
At the end of a largely routine request for financial documents, computer records, property reports and medical bills, C-Rod dropped a legal bomb that accuses Alex Rodriguez of stealing signs.
When last we heard, the relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Scott Boras wasn't any better than the relationship between A-Rod and his wife. Word was that Boras's hardline tactics regarding the Yankees weren't appreciated by Rodriguez and the agent wasn't involved in negotiating the deal that brought the two sides back together.
He's back by Rodriguez's side, however, and serving in a heretofore unknown capacity. He was in Toronto over the weekend to play mediator between his client and Cynthia Rodriguez as they shared space for the first time since the public meltdown of their marriage. According to the Daily News, it's unknown if he's trying to help broker a divorce settlement or just convince both sides to keep their dirty laundry out of the tabloids but, either way, the team that barred him from contract negotiations is happy to have him back on the scene.
"He [Boras] seems to be there with the blessing of the Yankees' front office, which is ironic, considering that Boras held up George Steinbrenner for millions," the source said. "But apparently the front office welcomes anyone who can get A-Rod's mind back onto baseball."
I wonder how much he charges an hour for couples therapy? Boras may well have the best of intentions for A-Rod but he's also got a personal horse in this race.
It should be no surprise that a bunch of celebrities attended the June 29, 2006 Madonna concert in Madison Square Garden. She's the material girl. She's huge. People love her. We don't question why, we just let her keep making her money and talking in her fake British accent.
But the fact that the celebrity divorce couple of the hour -- Mr. and Mrs. A. Rod -- were in attendance is a little bizarre. And ironic, I suppose. Of course, not as bizarre or ironic as the fact that C-Rod's rumored man, Lenny Kravitz, was also there.
And all of that might sound a bit like a fictional tale of celebrity lore, were it not for the illustrious Don Chavez, who somehow has pictures of the whole thing. Does this actually mean anything? Absolutely Maybe not. But you can bet that this will be the perceived starting point for the whole alleged A-Rod - Madonna affair (and maybe the C-Rod - Kravitz business too).
The lesson, as always? Never take your celebrity spouse to a Madonna concert in New York. Been sayin' it for years.
Throughout the history of mankind, people have looked to others to help them figure out how to get by and survive their lives. In some cultures, people turn to their elders for advice since they have a lot more experience, and have seen many different situations and how they've played out. In other places, people just do a whole bunch of hallucinogenic drugs hoping to have a vision that will solve whatever problem they're dealing with at the time.
In American culture, we have strippers. Yes, much like the oracles of ancient Greece, we Americans prefer our advice to come from naked women who are probably just really, really high. That's why Cynthia Rodriguez should talk to one of her soon to be ex-husband's former ladies if she ever thinks of forgiving Alex.
Cheating Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez had a two-night stand with an ex-Centerfolds stripper while in town to play the Red Sox in 2004, and Candice Houlihan says A-Rod's wife "did the right thing" by filing for divorce yesterday.
"A leopard doesn't change his spots," Houlihan, now a Reading hairdresser, told the Track. "Good for her, I think she's doing the smart thing. And she'll probably get tons of cash."
It always comes back to money with strippers, doesn't it?
Though Cynthia isn't the only one getting advice, as a gigolo in Manhattan named Hugo told A-Rod last night not to worry about losing his wife because he has over $100 million and can "get all the booty a man could dream of. Being married is for guys who can't get any."
20. ANTENUPTIAL AGREEMENT: On October 3, 2002, the parties executed a "document" titled "Antenuptial Agreement". A determination as to the validity or enforceability of the agreement requires additional investigation and discovery.
See what Cynthia's lawyer did there? Very clever. It's not a document, it's a "document." If you put it in quotes, it might not exist!
Unfortunately for Cynthia, the prenup is probably legal -- were it not, one guesses the lawyers would be far more condemning here -- and the astronomical amount of money she's likely to receive from her soon-to-be-former husband is thus nominally reduced. It's cool though, 'cause Lenny Kravitz totally banks. Love + Revolution -- marketing like that simply does not fail.
The story that will not die just gained another nine lives -- Alex Rodriguez's wife, Cynthia, is officially suing for divorce, according to both the Miami Herald and the far more reputable TMZ. (AOL! Woo!) You can probably guess the reasons for the divorce: A-Rod's "alleged" extramarital affairs, not least of which may or may not involve Madonna. Cynthia's lawyer scored the first blows:
Cynthia Rodriguez's lawyer tells TMZ, "A-Rod may be an All-Star baseball player, but he's flunked the All-Star team as far as marriage is concerned." Lilly says, "We're not gonna lose this case." He acknowledges a prenup exists but it's "too early" to decide if he'll challenge it. He says there will be a "huge settlement" in the case but "not hundreds of millions of dollars." Lilly says A-Rod's estate is "vast ... beyond what anyone knows."
Madonna will not be specifically named in the divorce papers. Lilly says infidelity is a "major cause" for the divorce, but not because of any one allegation. Rather, he says, there were a series of dalliances and "Madonna was the last straw." Lilly says Cynthia did not have an affair with Lenny Kravitz and that her relationship with him is "totally innocent and puristic."
So, to recap: A-Rod does have a prenup (phew!), but doesn't have a guarantee that he's not going to get taken for millions (doh!). Also, Cynthia says her relationship with relatively horrible pop singer Lenny Kravitz is "totally puristic." Right. So is writing about this story for money. So puristic, in fact, that I think I'll go take a cold shower.
This is the best and the worst time of year for Dugouts. The trade deadline looms and we'll get a chance to cover a lot of teams we don't normally cover. At the same time, the newsmakers of baseball start making news, and most of the time that involves a steady stream of unbelievable stories from the Yankees and the Red Sox. I want to do more Pirates Dugouts, but nobody in Pittsburgh just had their marriage broken up by a random assemblance of pop musicians. Nobody from the Pirates ran up a wall and high-fived a guy.
We've been sitting on this for a few days, waiting for the logical "oh THIS is what really happened" to come along. It just... isn't coming along. So today we attempt to handle this from an educated, even-handed perspective.
Today's Dugout, which should've just been about the Royals again, is after the jump.
Those are the rumors that have rocked the baseball/washed-up-pop-singer enthusiast demographics this week, and the rumors just went up another notch: the New York Daily News is reporting that A-Rod and Cynthia have separated after three months of problems:
Kravitz, 44, is in the middle of his "Love Revolution Tour" in Europe.
Sorry, that blockquote is out of left field, but I just want to digest that sentence for a second. "Love Revolution?" Is it OK to take two iconic 60's pop terms, combine them, and call that a tour? Was "Highway 61 Submarine" unavailable? Did Alex Rodriguez really just lose his wife to that guy?
I'm sure many of you were left with the impression that because A-Rod had a meeting with the Yankees without Scott Boras yesterday, that a deal would be done with the Yankees with Boras on the sidelines.
But I just got off the phone with Boras and he insisted that he is still representing Alex Rodriguez and he is still representing Rodriguez in what is now the discussions with the Yankees. (Boras wouldn't say if his job is to just negotiate exclusively with the Yankees now.)
"Alex and Cynthia visited the Steinbrenners and Yankees officials and following that, instructed me to discuss contract terms with the Yankees," Boras said.
As Rovell alludes, it's possible Rodriguez has provided Boras guidelines and enlisted him to negotiate with the Yankees solely as a legal precaution, preventing Boras from entertaining offers from other teams. After all, athletes aren't lawyers, and should never negotiate their own contracts. Perhaps Boras is back in the driver's seat, and perhaps not ... but at the very least he's back in Alex's life. If Brad and Angelina can make it work, who says these two crazy kids can't?
Alex Rodriguez is really becoming a pariah, of sorts, for the New York media. Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet, and he's already being dragged through the mud about his holiday plans. You see, he's allegedly going to spend the break with Madonna instead of his children. 
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Throughout the history of mankind, people have looked to others to help them figure out how to get by and survive their lives. In some cultures, people turn to their elders for advice since they have a lot more experience, and have seen many different situations and how they've played out. In other places, people just do a whole bunch of hallucinogenic drugs hoping to have a vision that will solve whatever problem they're dealing with at the time.
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The story that will not die just gained another nine lives -- Alex Rodriguez's wife, Cynthia, is officially suing for divorce, according to 
This is the best and the worst time of year for Dugouts. The trade deadline looms and we'll get a chance to cover a lot of teams we don't normally cover. At the same time, the newsmakers of baseball start making news, and most of the time that involves a steady stream of unbelievable stories from the Yankees and the Red Sox. I want to do more Pirates Dugouts, but nobody in Pittsburgh just had their marriage broken up by a random assemblance of pop musicians. Nobody from the Pirates ran up a wall and high-fived a guy.
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