ARod splitsville

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

ARod is ditching his wife for Madonna? Yikes, I thought she was Derek's turf. Potential Yankee clubhouse turmoil over an over-the-hill diva is a beautiful thing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Actually, according to the Daily News, the wife ditched HIM for Lenny Kravitz.

[Methead]

Is this a divorce, or Battle Of The Bands?

[smg58]

If it involved Fleetwood Mac, a great album would come out of it.

[Frayed Knot]

How long until the rumors of an affair between Madonna and Cynthia Rodriguez start?






* Hey, hey, hey, I'm Doctor K!

[Guest AG/DC]

Snarky comment that I just can't bring myself to make.

[Guest themetfairy]

Cynthia files for divorce.

[soupcan]

Female Co-Worker: "How old is A-Rod? 32? 34?"

Me: "32 I think."

F.C-W: "Would you do Madonna if you were 32 and she was 50?"

Me: "Well, it is Madonna"

F.C-W: "Sure, but she's 50."

Me: "Yeah, but even at 50 she looks amazing. She's in better shape than most 25 year-old women out there."

F.C-W: "She's 50."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'd do Arod sooner than Madonna I think.

[soupcan]

All things being equal - if there was a 50 year old woman out there that looked like Madonna and was in the same shape she is in and wanted to have sex with me, I'd have to consider it.

Now if you add to that, that the woman is in fact Madonna, I think I would absolutely knock boots with her.

It's Madonna.

[Guest themetfairy]

The Dugout has its own take on the situation.

Best line -

] BertySanchez: who lives this life where Madonna and Lenny Kravitz wander in and ruin their marriage, seriously

[Centerfield]

I'd make her wear a wedding dress and find a stage.

[Guest AG/DC]

You folks are nuts. You're looking at this from the perspective of your own sex-starved selves.

Look at it from the perspective of A-Rod. He's got, on one hand, the prospect of staying true to his marital vows and enjoying self-repsect and public esteeem, and the love and company of his wife and child.

On the other hand, he can risk that over any number (tens of thousands?) of women from 18-40 who would be happy and discreet and not treat you like a conquest to be devoured.

Are you really that horny that you want to be in Dennis Rodman's germ pool? Sheesh.

[Guest themetfairy]

AG/DC wrote: Look at it from the perspective of A-Rod. He's got, on one hand, the prospect of staying true to his marital vows and enjoying self-repsect and public esteeem, and the love and company of his wife and child.

Children, one of whom is an infant.

[Guest AG/DC]

Yeah.

I'm not saying that he strayed. I'm saying that, of all the stupid reasons to stray, Madonna's got to be one of the stupidest.

[soupcan]

I see your point.

Madonna, for me, would basically define my existence.

For him - not so much.

[Centerfield]

There's no way A-Rod hasn't strayed before. He had a very public incident with a stripper last year. If the choices were:

1. Stay faithful to your family

or

2. Bang Madonna

Then I'd pick 1. And so far, I, personally, have chosen to do that...taking a pass on all my chances to bang the Material Girl.

But, if I'm A-Rod, where my choices are

1. Bang lots of strippers, hordes of women, but not Madonna

or

2. Bang lots of strippers, hordes of women, AND Madonna

I'm going with 2.

[Guest themetfairy]

Yeah, at that point I guess a guy just has to go for the cycle....

[Guest AG/DC]

Gosh McNugget why?

Madonna's gonna get you disgraced in the tabloids, embarassed in the locker room, and abused by the fans at home and on the road, and she'll probably destroy your game and devour your soul beofre she's done with you. I won't even mention Rodman again. OK, I just did, but I'm done now.

Is your curiosity so strong? She drove Sean Penn to enough insantiy that he got thrown in a cage. She's a megalomaniacal nutjob 18 years his senior.

My libido shrivels at the thought.

[soupcan]

But....its Madonna.

[Guest AG/DC]

Oh, you're right. Stupid me.

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe because my conscious thoughts about Madonna have amounted to maybe 5 or 10 minutes of my life, but this whole discussion reminds of of a story Michael Kay related back when Jose Canseco briefly played with the Yanx.
He said the team's bat boys were impressed with Canseco because he dated Madonna "back when it was still cool to do so"
And that was like 8 or 9 years ago.

[soupcan]

="AG/DC"]Oh, you're right. Stupid me.

Yeah, you're right - she's a pig.

[Guest AG/DC]

Jeez, when you're a brand-name photo subject and have an army of attendants to strap you together and digitize you, even I can look hot in a posed shot. That's practically a re-creation

But it's your funeral.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Madonna's face is now line-less.
2008


2007

[soupcan]

AG/DC wrote: even I can look hot in a posed shot.

You really want to go there?

[Guest AG/DC]

="soupcan"] ="AG/DC"] even I can look hot in a posed shot. You really want to go there?

I was born there.

="batmagadanleadoff"]Madonna's face is now line-less. 2008

Yeah, no digital touch-ups there.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I've never had sex with a 50-year-old, and don't expect to until 2021, when my wife reaches that age.

I'm 45 though, and am certainly capable of finding a 50-year-old woman to be attractive. Even lust-worthy.

I don't know that I felt that way when I was 32, though.

But that really is besides the point. Alex Rodriguez has to know that everything he does is under the microscope. If he couldn't get away with escorting an unknown stripper in Toronto, he certainly should have known that he couldn't keep an affair with Madonna under the radar.

One thing I saw said that they bonded over kaballah. (I'm not really sure what that is; some kind of ancient Hebrew mysticism, I think?) I really haven't been paying attention to the details. Other than that story about the Polo Ground stairway, the non-sports (and funnies) pages of the Daily News have been especially skippable lately. It's all Alex and Cindy Rodriguez, Christie Brinkley, and the Russian suicide model.

[TransMonk]

I stopped finding Madonna attractive about 20 years ago.

This also coincides with her music going from pappy to crappy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lines on the face don't make a woman unattractive.

I know I felt differently when I was 25, but my tastes have aged as I have.

If I was single right now, I'd be looking for a 40-something, not a 20-something.