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Mark Simon and Steve Berthiaume joined forces on Friday's Baseball Today podcast. Among their items of discussion: 1. The Blue Jays-Yankees game on Thursday was crazy and the guys wonder how much the Yanks will miss Alex Rodriguez. 2. Steve exp...

As Neil Paine writes, these Texas Rangers are radically different from the Rangers, not so long ago, who had the game's highest-paid player and their division's worst record. According to Paine, the transformation has been all about priorities: Larg...

Today's links are going to take a deep breath and count to 600 before passing judgment on Alex Rodriguez's Hall of Fame prospects ... OK, so the next season of "The Simpsons" is going to feature the voices of Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe, Hugh Laur...

How is Alex Rodriguez's latest milestone not really so exciting? Let us count the ways ... 1. Steroids Right or wrong, we just don't get excited about drug cheaters. Not about their positive accomplishments, anyway. Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McG...

Well, it looks like the war is officially over. Ben Shpigel: A detente was seemingly reached in the Alex Rodriguez-Dallas Braden feud Tuesday, when Braden sent over what could be construed as a peace offering. Rodriguez received a "Get Off My Mo...

Hey, who knew that the Omaha Wizard created those silly bonuses in Alex Rodriguez's contract? Mark Feinsand: The incentive clauses were actually the creation of Warren Buffett, Rodriguez's billionaire friend who advised him during his negotiations ...

Alex Rodriguez, Future Home Run King, currently ranks 29th in the American League in home runs. Actually, he's tied for 29th with Mike Napoli, both Red Sox catchers, and a bunch of other guys who aren't Future Home Run Kings. Bob Klapisch has some of...

Today's links are going on strike immediately and won't return to work until Alex Rodriguez hits another home run ... • There have been dozens of tributes to Ernie Harwell already, and it's hardly fair to single out just a few of them ... bu...

LoHud's Chad Jennings on that weird dustup this afternoon involving Dallas Braden and Alex Rodriguez: "He just told me to get off his mound," Rodriguez said. "I was a little surprised. I'd never quite heard that. Especially from a guy that has a ha...

The sale's not quite complete, but one way or another Tom Hicks will soon relinquish control of the Rangers. Jennifer Floyd Engel got Hicks on the phone: So I had to ask. He had hinted before in private that signing Alex Rodriguez to that 10-year, ...

Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez were the clear-cut first two choices for the top 100 players of the decade; after that, the list got a little more difficult.

I know it's a day-old story, but sometimes these things take a while to percolate inside my fool head ... A day after Alex Rodriguez prompted the first video replay review in World Series and postseason history, the outfield landscape at Citizens B...

Rob Neyer covers Game 4 of the World Series , discussing Alex Rodriguez, Brad Lidge, Cole Hamels and more....

Is it the manager's fault when players who usually play intelligently suddenly start playing stupidly? Yeah, maybe just a little bit. This much, though? Matthew Pouliot:Because Guerrero and Alex Rodriguez shined in the ALCS, Figgins perhaps now stand...

Everybody's hammering Joe Girardi for not yanking A.J. Burnett sooner in Game 5, and maybe everybody's got a point. What really bothered me, though, was when he yanked Alex Rodriguez in the top of the ninth inning for pinch-runner Freddy Guzman. Nobo...

Rob Neyer discusses the Phillies' domination of the Dodgers in Game 3 of the NLCS and why it was inevitable that Alex Rodriguez would start hitting in the postseason....