Is This The Greediest Man Alive?



From USA Today

A-Rod renegs on rest of record contract, opts for free agency.

In this tale of two third basemen, one wears championship rings and one wears pinstripes — or used to, anyway.  Mike Lowell and Alex Rodriguez.  Look for one in October, and you find him the World Series MVP.  Look for the other, and you see his agent.

Rodriguez, a year younger, has 334 more home runs than Lowell.  He has 725 more RBI, and this season made three times more money.  But he has two fewer championships.  He has a contract to die for, numbers to slobber over, an aura as wide as Wyoming.  But he has never gotten a team to the World Series.

But when is the point where one player just gets too ... big?  Rodriguez has become like an enormous and exotic new sofa for a small living room.  The issue is not whether the sofa is worth the money.  The issue is, once you have it is there room for anything else?

One of the Steinbrenners has been quoted saying that if Rodriguez does not want to be a Yankee, good riddance, and don't let the door hit him on his wallet.

Looks like all that money won't buy a World Series ring, much less an MVP.

When you put him up against George Bush's oil patch friends or Dick Cheney's friends in the Halliburton Company, A-Rod is nothing but a piker in the minor leagues. He doesn't even register as a blip on their radar.