You ever have one of the experiences where a picture falls off a wall for no reason? Then you find out later that the person in the photo has had an accident or worse?
This just happened as I was working on blog posts:
The mini-bobblehead of Alex Rodriguez, then a member of the Texas Rangers, was part of a collection that includes Ichiro Suzuki, Tom Glavine, and Mike Piazza (there was one more, but I can’t find it and don’t remember who it was, nor do I remember where they came from. Perhaps a giveaway in cereal boxes?)
A-Rod has come under attack — again — by the New York Yankees, who decided, after all this time, that they don’t want to pay him the bonuses under his contract for attaining “milestone” home runs.
The New York Yankees are devising legal arguments so Alex Rodriguez won’t be able to collect any of the bonuses he is owed per the $30 million “milestone home run” marketing agreement he signed in 2007, sources confirmed to ESPNNewYork.com.
If Rodriguez hits six more homers, which would tie him with Willie Mays for fourth all time, he will be eligible for a $6 million bonus as part of his 10-year, $275 million contract with the Yankees. Rodriguez has hit 654 home runs in his career.
The Yankees plan on contesting the validity of the marketing deal because of Rodriguez’s steroids revelations and yearlong suspension….
As much as you may not like Rodriguez, the Yankees pretty much knew what they were getting when they re-signed him in 2007. Tony Kornhieser argued about this on yesterday’s Pardon the Interruption. Word had long been circulating that A-Rod used performance enhancing drugs. Unless they believed his fairy tales that he was clean, in which case bad on them for not doing due diligence. They wanted him for the fannies he would put in the seats and the excitement engendered by those home runs, but now, given his suspension and the facts that the team will probably be stink-o for the next few seasons, they don’t want to honor their agreements.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Oh, and by the way, the bobblehead doesn’t work, either.
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