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From Yankees.com

"Rodriguez will be a Yankee for eight more seasons.

A lot can happen between now and 2017.

'There might be a postseason or two where I don't hit four or five or six home runs," Rodriguez said. "And I know the way it goes. I'm going to get crushed, and that's just part of it. But the one thing that no one can take away is what happened in 2009 with our team, with the way we came together like a family, everyone checking their egos at the door and winning a world championship. The feeling of satisfaction that I got from that will forever be mine.'"

A quick guide to the Arod press conference

For those of you who are too lazy to read the entire transcript of Arod's press conference, here are the highlights:

These are the 50 most frequently used words in the questions posed by reporters:

'03 (2) anything (4) believe (3) cheating (4) consider (2) count (2) cousin (3) credibility (3) dominican (3) drugs (3) everything (3) feel (5) fellow (2) game (3) gammons (2) given (2) going (5) home (3) injected (3) interview (7) lot (3) month (3) numbers (2) obviously (3) people (4) performance-enhancing (3) peter (2) player (5) positive (2) pretty (2) record (3) revealed (2) roberts (2) saying (2) something (4) states (2) steroids (5) stop (2) substance (3) taking (5) talked (8) teammates (5) think (4) times (3) today (3) took (5) united (2) week (7) wonder (4) years (4)

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Here are the 50 most frequently used words in Arod's answers:

'03 (5) ago (6) anything (6) baseball (21) best (7) better (5) blood (5) career (7) conversations (4) cousin (6) curious (4) days (5) decided (6) different (5) feels (4) forward (6) going (15) guys (10) half (4) hope (6) knew (5) lot (13) major (5) mistake (7) opportunity (5) people (9) played (7) players (5) position (5) pretty (5) question (8) realized (5) really (9) sorry (5) start (8) stupid (5) sure (5) team (4) teammates (6) test (11) thank (5) things (7) think (16) thought (7) today (10) understand (5) week (9) world (7) years (9) young (8)

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Who is A-Rod's "Cousin?"

The Inquisition

1:31 EST: Alex is a gifted player. Alex has to tell the truth. Alex has to be sorry. There are hundreds of ways to say these things and the pre-show pundits know them all.

1:39: We don't know if he's sorry, but he is late. Is he coming? Did he kill himself? You have to ask. He seems like a guy who's looking for a reason. But this would be a bad one.

1:41: Harold Reynolds: "This is his State Of The Union." Whoa.

1:43: The Yankees announce that A-Rod is late because he's still at his physical. Because they think we'll believe it?

1:46: I heard a rubber glove snap. Bend over, A-Rod.

1:48: That was quick! He's here! With pants on!

1:50: All lined up at the table. Nervous bunch. Cashman, as always, looks like he's waiting for a text from Satan. A-Rod looks like he expects the doctor to come back with the rubber glove.

1:53: A-Rod admits he's nervous! He's telling the truth! He's telling the truth!

1:56: "It's my cousin's fault, too. We were adorable, ignorant kids."

1:57: "They're testing me LITERALLY ALL OF THE TIME NOW, so leave me alone."

1:58: "Did I mention I was adorable?"

1:59: Oh, A-Rod, is there a pill that will keep you from crying?

2:00: The first question is really mean. "If you hadn't been caught, would you have ratted yourself out?" What do you think, creepy reporter?

2:01: By the way, A-Rod told his first lie a few minutes ago: "Baseball is a lot bigger than Alex Rodriguez."

2:05: Were you cheating?
"It wasn't cheating because I'm exempt because I didn't go to college."
Did you take pills or did you shoot?
"Ol' mama spike right in the mainline."
Why is Jamie Moyer being such a dick?
"?"
Why did you make it impossible for us to raise our kids?
"So God could give me this pulpit from which to raise your kids for you."

2:07: "I don't even know what the dope did to me. I must have been really faced... also, a 25 year old is still a kid."

2:10: He says "we're a family." About the Yankees. Derek Steinbrenner and Mariano Steinbrenner shift in their seats.

2:11: If Derek had heat vision, A-Rod would be dead.

2:14: Hey, speak English. A whole question asked and answered in Spanish. What if it was THE answer that PROVED EVERYTHING?

2:18: "It goes back to being young and being curious." Are we still talking about drugs?

2:19: "I respect Selig." FREAK!

2:20: What's in the bottle, freak?

2:22: Sweeny Murti: "How do we know you're telling the truth now, freak?" A-Rod: "Because you're not Katie Couric. It's impossible to tell that woman the truth."

2:25: "I'm here to take my medicine." If your veins haven't all collapsed.

2:27: Press conference over. Time to get out of those pants.

2:30: Uh-oh. Mike Without Mad Dog is pissed. The Yankees "took the media for a joy ride today. They settled nothing." The scandal goes on! Yay!

The end.

Arod and Knobby!

Together again for the first time, in stereo, at the Alex Rodriguez Memorial Sports Complex and Hair Highlighting Salon in Coral Gables, Fla.


photo by designated driver Jim "The King" Leyritz

More coming on Arod

Selena Roberts, the reporter who broke the story is writing ... a book.

“The book is still a work in progress,” said her editor. “I assure you she has more drug revelations as well as other news. Not everything that Selena has on A-Rod’s steroid participation has come out yet.”

Nine more years on his Yankees contract? Oh boy.

I just don't care

I'm sorry. I should feel outraged, upset, betrayed.

But I don't.

There's way too much important stuff to worry about right now in the real world.

If some overpaid bozo took drugs that were legal 6 years ago so he can hit a ball harder, so what?

I don't care. It doesn't change my life.

Record books? Hall of Fame? Hot stove?

Whatever.

I root for the Yankees. I pull for the good guys but if some players are dicks, so what?

I cheer for the laundry.

A-Rod Cries For Hater Gammons, Ending Controversy

Q: Why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself. Hey! Why are you hitting yourself?

A: Waaaah!

The Times, As Usual, Puts It Mildly

And tardily. They could have run that headline every day for the last five years.

Tom Peyer Not 'Shocked' By Schilling Asshole News

Christ, we're going to be asked to pay attention to this creep for the rest of our lives. Because he blogs.

Solution: break up the internet. It would be so worth it.

A-Rod Pee'd Hot in 2003

Dear Alex,

Thank you. This news could not have come at a better time.
Admit nothing. Keep the Press guessing and please drag this out till 2012.

Sincerely,
Michael Phelps

Torre throws Bowa under the bus

HE'S the one who called him A-Fraud. Aha!

"It is High" Free Real Estate Listings

As a public service, we at "It Is High..." are offering free real estate listings* in an effort to help stimulate the economy.

Here's the first, a spacious waterfront pied a terre in Miami, right near beautiful Coral Gables.

Asking only $14.8 million. Contact seller: Mr. A. Rodriguez.

*not really. Free only to Yankee players; everyone else subject to $1,000,000 fee.

Mysterious "Max" revealed - and he says Canseco's a liar

According to Sports Illustrated, trainer Joseph Dion has come forward and claims to be "Max," the mysterious trainer/steroids dealer that Canseco (in his upcoming book) claims to have introduced A-Rod to.

One problem. Dion says Canseco's full of shit and a liar.

From an ESPN.com report: "That's really, really funny because I am the one person that hates steroids," Dion was quoted as saying. "I'm against it 100 percent. And, A-Rod, at the time that I trained him -- and this I swear to God -- was 100 percent against steroids. He was one of the hardest working guys, and most natural guy, that I've met in my life. He hated steroids. We talked about it."

Yeah, I know. Canseco's a liar? What a shocker.

And, clean or not, A-Rod still can't drive in a run in a clutch situation.

Money Well Spent

Alex did his thing yesterday, when we needed him to carry the ballclub.

Derek was out, Jorge was on his way out, Jason could barely walk, Phil couldn't find anything to throw, Melky and Shelly were in MLB jail, so we needed the $250 million man to deliver.

Thank the jesuits, the mollusks and the head office guys for not letting this guy go, once his agent gave the Yankees a free ticket out of jail earlier in the FA signing period. It's as if the Knicks got a " do over " on the Ewing trade and, after considerable thought, still made the trade.

Somehow, the Yankees found more years and more money to keep this MVP. He'll be failing to drive in key runs for the next 20 years, I think.

Yesterday, K-Rod went down looking three times and swinging once. He looked better watching than swinging.

Glad he's back. We have no depth but we have K-Rod again.

Let's go for another "golden sombrero" tonight.

Love that bubble gum.

Shocking allegations to be made in Canseco's next book

The concluding chapter in his trilogy will offer some stunners...

1. Derek Jeter once remarked, "Fiddledee-dee! Why should I care about poor people!"
2. A-Rod’s computer password is "Jessica."
3. Curt Schilling keeps dirty paperback novels in his locker.
4. Roger Clemens wife owns a coat made from Dalmatian puppies.
5. Randy Johnson once asked him for directions to the street where his steroids dealer lives.
6. Gary Sheffield often asks guys what lottery number they intend to play – then he plays it himself!
7. Cal Ripken takes CDs from the local library, rips them and makes copies without paying.
8. Behind his back, Manny Ramirez calls David Ortiz "Big Fatty."
9. Once, at a pool party, Tom Glavine claimed the water was "perfect," when in fact, it was really cold.
10. Johnny Damon is a snitch. You can't trust him with a secret.

Jose Canseco: Speaking Truth to Hatred

Just in time for opening day, Ozzie Canseco’s twin brother, Jose, is cashing in his steroids fame for hosting the bash where his and Roger Clemens’ wife held a tit contest -- making him the biggest former celeb punch line since Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped the LA traffic cop.

In his new book: “Vindicated,” Jose says he hates, hates, absolutely hates Alex Rodriguez -- so deeply, so totally, so sincerely that he left A-Rod out of his first book, because, well, he hated him, hated him, hated him.

Godawmighty, he fukinay hates A-Rod!

“I hate your fucking guts,” Jose says, concluding a chapter devoted to hating A-Rod, with a direct statement to his imaginary reader, A-Rod -- a literary device borrowed from Ferris Buehler.

That’s hate. And it makes sense. After all, here’s a guy whose first book threw feces at every zookeeper in sight. Now, to his latest ghost writer, he blathers brand new, never-released allegations. It's like getting deleted scenes on Shrek 3. You thought you’d seen everything Jose could pump from his stomach, but he had some bile in reserve.

(Why the hatred? A-Rod coveted his wife, Jessica's future contest-winning boobs.)

It gets better. There’s a bizarre writing segment, like a dream sequence in an episode of “Friends,” where Jose – in a different font – includes excerpts of his “testimony” in a lie detector test. He claims to have introduced A-Rod to a steroids dealer. Apparently, the doofus thinks this excerpt proves he's telling the truth.

You know, in case someone – oh, I don’t know who – might doubt him.

This literary device dates back to Jack Abramoff.

OK… let’s try the Jose Canseco Literary Lie Detector:

Testing, one, two, three... OK, I have donned the shock collar, connected to the lie detector truth sequencer. If I tell a lie, I'll get a minor shock. Two plus two is threeAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Wow. That hurt.

OK. Ask a question. Fire away.

WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH JOSE CANSECO?

Well, Jose Canseco is the only guy in the world that inspires you to defend A-Rod.

He gives evil twins a bad name. He’s a sociopathic schoolyard bully who, if he grew up in Iraq 40 years ago, would have roomed with Saddam.

He's the Orville Reddenbacker of innuendo. Because that’s his business these days. He sells the Jose Canseco line of name-brand bullshit.

"Vindication?" He should have titled it "Moby Dork." He’ll be remembered for his bullshit. And Jessica’s boobs. I hear they're all naturaAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Nautical But Nice!

Not to be outdone by the Captain of the New York Yankees...


...the Captain of the Texas Rangers struck this pose for the next Men's Vogue.



Mens Vogue:
Lightning Rod
A-Rod's Off-Season Workout
Slideshow & Quotes About A-Rod