A-Rod Frenzy a New Low in Tabloid Tawdriness

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Now let's be crystal-clear here: The man they call A-Rod might be wealthy, but he's clearly a few innings short of a complete game. I mean, you're easily recognizable and gossip-worthy, so if you strut around Toronto strip clubs with a buxom blonde that could be an employee -- turns out, the woman in question is a stripper who once appeared in Playboy -- people are going to stare. People are going to talk.

In fact, you wonder what's worse: a newspaper deciding to run such tripe, or the public's fascination with the tawdry details? No doubt, the Post's circulation didn't suffer earlier this week when the headline blared: "Astray Rod."

No doubt, Cynthia Rodriguez, the mother of A-Rod's two-year-old son, might have agreed the moment she walked past one of the Post's newspaper stands. Because that's who's really getting hurt here. Not the "friend," who is reaching celebrity status in New York as we speak, or Rodriguez, who at least has an attractive winger for strip club-hopping in most major-league cities.

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A-Rod Frenzy a New Low in Tabloid Tawdriness

THERE'S a sleazy feel to this business about Alex Rodriguez being photographed with a woman who was not his wife in Toronto this week.

And it's got nothing to do with insinuations of adultery,...

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