Manhattan Strip Clubs: Rodriguez Is the Same, Perceptions Changed

A month before the steroids bombshell, Rodriguez was roasted by his former manager, Joe Torre, in his book “The Yankee Years.” The book ignited a new round of A-Rod battering and gave credibility to what many of the most devout Yankees fans had begun to think: Rodriguez was a phony and a fraud. He was disingenuous.
Torre’s frank assessments confirmed in some fans’ minds that Rodriguez was the not the person to lead the Yankees to a championship. In one section, Torre said that Rodriguez became “the unmistakable shorthand symbol for why the Yankees no longer were champions and suffered at the rise of the Red Sox.”
In one passage the book conjectured: “Whether hitting 450-foot home runs or sunbathing shirtless in Central Park or squiring strippers, Rodriguez was like nothing ever seen before on the championship teams of the Torre Era: an ambitious superstar impressed and motivated by stature and status, particularly when those qualities pertained to himself.”

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