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The salaries for Kansas City’s 27 players on its opening-day roster and disabled lists total $36.1 million, according to an analysis of major league contracts by The Associated Press.

A-Rod alone makes $32 million atop the New York Yankees’ $201.7 million payroll. He is baseball’s highest-paid player for the 11th straight year.

I think taking money from the Yankees is a good thing. In that context, A-rod contributes a lot of "good" to society. Of course the Yankees have been buying pennants for decades by purchasing the most talented players in MLB. My very limited interest in MLB extends to what the teams other than the Yankees are doing. And when any team beats the Yankees, that is an extra-special good vibe during the season. As a poor boy, I always root for the financial underdogs.

Sg

phoney, overpaid,juiced up pos. I can't even watch that commercial he's in...Rod

PAY-Rod.Good luck,
SZ

He's where he belongs. Fan's love to hate A Rod and the Yankees. But an entire wasted career in Texas would have been more fitting.

I second B-Rod's sentiments on A-rod...but I'll include pathological liar as well.

Ike

I'm guessing he blows.

He likes popcorn

That's one way to stay under the radar.

Admitted 'Roid user and still keeps his numbers. No integrity in pro or amateur sports. Tough to be a fan these days.

Looks like the RedSox need some roids...thats not a good team for $180 mil payroll but back on topic ya AFraud does Suck! King Felix gets er done tonight!

Agreed Arod is a punk BUT the Yankees also pay a ton of money in luxury tax that teams like KC, Pitt, Florida and others do not put into player payroll. A minimum salary floor needs to be enacted to bring the bottom dwellers up to a more competitive level.

Cap em like NHL..Blackhawks 2010 Stanley Cup Champions had to dispand because of it and I aint a Blackhawk fan but if that team was now they could no be beaten...well it would be well challanged.

NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez was called out for interference when he swatted at Boston pitcher Bronson Arroyo's glove and knocked the ball loose during a play near first base in the eighth inning of Game 6 of the AL Championship Series Tuesday night.


AP
A-Rod brought on controversy -- and riot police -- with this swat of Arroyo's arm in the eighth.

With one out and Derek Jeter on first after his RBI single cut Boston's lead to 4-2, Rodriguez hit a grounder down the first-base line that Arroyo fielded. While Arroyo ran toward Rodriguez to tag him out, the Yankees third baseman stuck out his left hand and slapped the pitcher's glove. The ball was knocked loose and rolled down the right-field line. Jeter came all the way around to score and first-base umpire Randy Marsh ruled Rodriguez safe.

"That was unprofessional. That's against the rules," Boston's Kevin Millar said. "If you want to play football, strap on some pads and go play for the Green Bay Packers."

If he had never left Seattle, would you still dislike him?

I enjoyed watching him, and Ken, and Edgar, and Randy back in the day. Can't say as I've watched a lot of M's baseball since, though I enjoyed following their record tying winning season a few years ago without a lot of big-name players.

Afraud and Bonds are the biggest tools in all of sports.

He would have never stayed here because he is all about the money.
Its okay to be all about the money, but what turned the fans against him was when he said he wasn't just about the money, that his next team had to be about winning championships too. Then he signed with Texas, soley for the money, and he lent his name to the campaign to lure Boeing to relocate in Texas. It was all downhill after that. His contract almost ruined the Rangers too and it was a major reason that Hicks had to sell the team.

I will say this about Arod, love him or hate him, I would have loved to have him in my duggout during the 2001 playoff run. The M's needed a little more firepower that season to go all the way and he would have provided it.