The biggest sports story ever?

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

As a blogger, and in particular as a YANKEES’ blogger, I feel it is my sworn duty to write something about the Alex Rodriguez-Madonna-Cynthia Rodriguez-Lenny Kravitz entanglement, and the Rodriguez’s reported separation.

After all, the illustrious Dan Shanoff called it “the best sports story ever” in an entry on The Sporting Blog this morning. Deadspin spent time today wondering how Yankee fans will greet A-Rod tonight when the Yankees face the Red Sox.

The thing is, I really don’t give a damn about the whole sordid mess. If A-Rod and the missus want to go their separate ways, and spend their time swapping bodily fluids with used-up, passed around, former super stars that’s their problem. Not mine.

Sports story? The amazing Tampa Bay Rays are a sports story. Seattle losing the Sonics after 41 years is a sports story. The ongoing Wimbledon tennis tournament is a sports story.

The Alex-Madonna-Cynthia-Lenny entanglement? That’s a New York Post Page 6 celebrity gossip story. A fine, juicy one with lots of rumors, half-truths, denials, secrecy and untold stories for sure, but still a celebrity gossip story. Not a sports one.

Maybe I’ve been rendered humorless by the less-than-stellar season the Yankees are having. Maybe I just don’t have the true soul of the humorist blogger, the kind who lives to expound on and make fun of the juiciest of rumors.

I don’t know. I just know that what I care about is A-Rod hopefully using his wooden bat to get some key hits this weekend against Boston and next week against first-place Tampa Bay.

I really could care less what he uses his wood for on his own time.