New York Yankees: A-Rod Parties With Playmate Girlfriend as Arbitrator’s Ruling Is Expected Soon
COMMENTARY | New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez hasn’t been sitting around his Miami condo as he awaits an arbitrator’s ruling in his PED-suspension case.
Rather, A-Rod has been partying like a convict with just a few days of freedom before having to report to prison.
After spending New Year’s eve in the French West Indies with his playmate girlfriend, A-Rod partied at a Jay Z concert in Florida before flying to Los Angeles to attend the BCS championship game.
I think most athletes would want to stay out of the spotlight if they were awaiting what could be the death knell signaling the end of their career. Not A-Rod. He not only gallivanted around. He used Twitter to document his adventures.
Last week, A-Rod attended a Jay Z concert in Sunrise, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale, with Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado and San Diego Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso. Along with a photo, A-Rod tweeted, “Great time at the Jay Z show last night with @YonderalonsoU and Manny Machado!”
According to NJ.com, A-Rod and Machado each grew up in Miami while Alonso played baseball at the University of Miami.
Days before the concert, A-Rod was in the French West Indies with girlfriend Torrie Wilson, where the two were spotted walking the beach before New Year’s eve, according to celebrity gossip website Just Jared.
I guess A-Rod needed to get away for a few days, but not long enough to miss Auburn vs. Florida State.
This weekend, A-Rod and Wilson were spotted in Los Angeles, where A-Rod tweeted a picture of himself with a group of people he described as high school classmates outside the Rose Bowl, where he presumably watched the BCS championship. A-Rod and Wilson headed back east this week, according to the Daily News, which published a picture of the couple boarding an airplane out of LAX.
It’s unclear if A-Rod is back home in Miami or in New York, where arbitrator Fredric Horowitz’s ruling is expected soon. But the Daily News is reporting that A-Rod will seek an injunction staying his suspension if Horowitz upholds commissioner Bud Selig’s 211-game ban.
Sources told the News that they believe A-Rod’s legal team will ask a Federal judge to issue an injunction that would allow A-Rod to report to the Yankees’ spring training camp in Tampa next month and play when the 2014 season begins while they argue for A-Rod’s suspension to be overturned. By the time it’s over, Yankees officials will likely be the ones needing a break from the seemingly never-ending A-Rod saga.
As I’ve previously written about, A-Rod and Wilson are a perfect pair, as A-Rod appears to be borrowing a page from Wilson’s wrestling playbook with every odd tweet and ill-advised lawsuit he files.
Howard Z. Unger is a freelance journalist in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 15 years, he has written about sports, media, and popular culture. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, New York Post, and New York Times.
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