Up until this point, Brian
Cashman and ARod’s New York Yankees teammates have been left to do the heavy
lifting in terms of feeding the hungry media beast with comments about ARod’s latest PED
controversy. But since it was the Steinbrenners who re-signed ARod, it was their
responsibility to answer some questions. Of course, Hal didn’t say much about the
situation other than the team is cooperating with Major League Baseball, that
the situation is concerning but out of the Yankees hands and that he doesn’t
know much more about the situation than the rest of us (yeah, right).
But what Steinbrenner didn’t
say was also noteworthy. He didn’t offer any show of support for his embattled
third baseman, probably because the Yankees are working furiously behind the scenes
to figure out a way to use this latest scandal to get rid of ARod once and for
all. I can’t help but wonder if Steinbrenner’s apparent willingness to break
tradition and sign Robinson Cano to an expensive, long-term deal this offseason is any indication that
the Yankees think they can get out from under ARod’s onerous contract (probably
wishful thinking on my part, but dare to dream).
There are a lot of people like
Curt Schilling who believe ARod will never play another day with the New York Yankees, either because the team will void or settle his contract or because
his injuries have diminished him to the point of retirement. I can’t see ARod
just walking away from New York because his ego is too large to allow himself
to be run out of town and the Yankees chances of getting out of that contract seem slim
to none. Steinbrenner may simply have to adjust to the reality that he will be
answering questions about ARod for a long time to come.
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