Yankees are synonymous with ... integrity.

Integrity must be their third tenet.

I mean, look, ARod's cheating sure ain't good. But, unfortunately, it sure ain't new:

"Everybody’s All-American turned out to be a two-bit cheat whose talents were exaggerated – if not created – in a chemist’s lab."

I like that, too: "Everybody's All-American."

ARod has been the most hated player in baseball since 2001.

Over the course of two days, he's re-imagined as a shining knight who was supposed to save baseball.


"In the real world, the Yankees would do what employers always do when they discover an employee has deceived them. They’d fire Rodriguez. Fire him and fight him over the balance of the absurd wages they never should’ve given him in the first place."

Evidently, you know nothing about the real world.


If ARod's stats are solely built on 'roids a la Giambi, then O'Connor sort of has a point. The Yankees paid for 40/120 and got 22/75. It could be a major problem.

I suspect ARod will still put up massive numbers and the Yankees will sell out every game. Time will tell if the contract is worth it. Please don't act like the performance on the baseball field doesn't count. That's precisely what he's paid to do.

Giambi is a criminal because he couldn't even bat .250.


"What a crying shame. At a time of epic unemployment, a multimillionaire who deserves to lose his job will keep it."

I was thinking the same thing about a hack columnist for something called NorthJersey.com ... sans the multimillionaire part.