1. Yes, I see the e-mails to my account and the postings on the blog, and I know Yankee many fans want movement away from the A-Rod/steroid story and toward “baseball.” Again, I will stress this: The A-Rod story is a baseball story. Now major league baseball wants to have a sitdown with Rodriguez and the identity of his cousin has been revealed. This story is going to continue to swarm around Rodriguez, which means it will continue to swarm around the team trying to play, you know, baseball. The more holes that are found in A-Rod’s statements the more legs this story is going to have and that is why it has been so important for Rodriguez to either say nothing or – if he opens his mouth – to have the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth come out of it.

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