Alex Rodriguez is a great player, and he seems like a class act. The Yankees, on the other hand, are a blight on the baseball landscape. I don't hate New York, just the Yankees. The ethos of purchasing a winner cuts against my grain. Fortunately, baseball is boring, so the fact that the Yankees continue to spoil the professional game is no great loss.

I thought that the most interesting aspect of the deal was the provision of A-Rod's contract that gave him permission to link his website to the Yankees' team site. Look, I'm doing it here, and I didn't have to negotiate at all! (By the way, the Yankees show a picture of A-Rod in the foreground, with a photo of the Bambino in the background. If not completely over the top, it is at least premature. Maybe when A-Rod retires with ten World Series Championship rings ...)

The hard part in all of this is finding A-Rod's site. (15 minutes is enough wasted time. It's supposed to be at arod.com, but it doesn't load.)

P.S. I just visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame site and noticed that Babe Ruth didn't make the cut on 11 ballots for election to the Hall in 1936. In the inaugural Hall class of Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Honus Wagner, no one was a unanimous choice. What's with that?

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