Note: Back to normal schedule on Monday, but just wanted to
pass along a few thoughts on beer, as gleaned from the menu at
the Rogue Ales Brew Pub in Newport, Oregon where I had a
delicious meal of fish and chips, and suds, last week.
But first, the A-Rod/C-Rod divorce tussle.
“If it jiggled, A-Rod wanted it.
“The Yankees slugger had a powerful yen for strippers and
exotic dancers that even his hot-bodied spouse, Cynthia, could
not satisfy, pals and other sources said.
“From a stripper named Monique to a busty blond named Joslyn
to sex-exuding Madonna, Alex Rodriguez chased after the flesh
while his marriage foundered….
“When the Yanks played at home – and Cynthia wasn’t around –
Rodriguez hit the city’s priciest men’s clubs and spent a fortune
ogling the girls.
“One of his favorites was Monique – a 5-foot-5 filly with brown
hair, brown eyes and a well-toned muscular figure – who
specialized in lap dances.”
As for Joslyn (Morse), she’s the one A-Rod was spotted with in
Toronto at a strip club last year.
“When Rodriguez flew to California for the funeral of Yankees
pitcher Cory Lidle in October 2006, she was listed on the flight
manifest as one of the passengers on the private plane.
“Busted, Rodriguez tried to make amends and made a point of
taking Cynthia and (now 3-year-old daughter) Natasha for a
stroll through Chicago’s Gold Coast – with photographers
trailing behind.
“Cynthia Rodriguez kept smiling through all the humiliations –
until A-Rod was linked to Madonna. Then she decided she
couldn’t take it anymore.
“With the other girls, it was all about bump and grind. With
Madonna, it appeared to be something more.”
[George Rush and Corky Siemaszko / New York Daily News]
“Alex Rodriguez’s bitter divorce took an ugly turn on Monday
night when Team A-Rod accused his estranged wife of going on
a spiteful spending spree in Paris.
“Spurned spouse Cynthia Rodriguez used the Yankee slugger’s
credit card to the tune of $100,000 to punish him for a dalliance
with Madonna that both he and the Material Girl deny, an A-Rod
pal said.
“ ‘She’s been spending wildly,’ the friend said. ‘She spent close
to $100,000 on her jaunt to Paris.’
“Cynthia flew the godparents of her daughters, Dodd and Sabina
Romero, and their older daughter, first-class to the City of
Lights, the friend said.
[Rush and Siemaszko / New York Daily News]
You’ll recall that after A-Rod was spotted with Joslyn in Toronto
last year, Cynthia showed up at Yankee Stadium in a white tank
top with ‘f— you’ printed on the back, aimed at the paparazzi.
A-Rod, who is into muscular women, first spotted Cynthia on a
Stairmaster at a gym in Coconut Grove in 1996. They didn’t
marry, though, until five years ago when A-Rod was with the
Texas Rangers.
Ah, but now it appears A-Rod had been “in love” with Madonna
since last January.
As reported by Dan Mangan of the New York Post:
“At dinner with a friend in Miami that month, the Bronx
Bombers’ third baseman ‘began tittering like a smitten
schoolboy’ over text messages with a woman, according to a
story in Us Weekly.
“ ‘He kept smiling, acting as if he was a little kid,’ Alex’s friend
told Us. ‘He told me it was Madonna. I was shocked.’
“ ‘He proceeded to say he was in love with her, but I thought he
was kidding,’ the friend said. ‘But he wasn’t.’
“In February, the friend said, A-Rod told him, ‘She’s my f—ing
soulmate, dude!’”
Meanwhile, C-Rod has access to a private jet and is “surrounded
by attendants who can attend to her every whim.”
Dan Mangan adds:
“The suit, filed in Miami-Dade County court, suggests that C-
Rod should land up to half of the more than $140 million Alex
has earned during their six-year marriage.
“ ‘The petitioner has exhausted every effort to salvage the
marriage,’ the suit said. ‘However, Alex has emotionally
abandoned his wife and children and has left her with no choice
but to divorce him.’
“Cynthia revealed in the divorce complaint that she and Alex
signed a prenuptial agreement on Oct. 3, 2002, a month before
their marriage.
“But the suit suggests that Cynthia wants that prenup tossed.
“Philadelphia divorce lawyer Lynne Gold-Bikin, who is not
involved in the case, said it is significant that Cynthia filed for
divorce in Florida, because that state’s judges are more apt to
toss out prenuptial agreements than those elsewhere. A prenup
can be ruled invalid in Florida if a judge decides its terms are not
‘fair or reasonable,’ she said.”
On Monday night, A-Rod appeared to be “reveling in his
impending bachelorhood as he held court with two male pals at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown. A steady stream of
beautiful young women approached the table to wish him well.”
Paul Daugherty / USA Today:
“A former Boston stripper claims to have spent two eventful
evenings with A-Rod in 2004. ‘I felt bad afterward,’ Candice
Houlihan confessed to the Boston Herald. But not, as it turned
out, all that bad.
“ ‘A couple of drinks later, I didn’t notice all that much, to tell
you the truth.’
“Ask yourself this: What is A-Rod doing?
“Normally, I don’t mess with the personal lives of the folks I
write about, unless it adversely affects their play. Because being
able to hit a ball, catch one or throw one doesn’t endow one with
superhuman morals or powers of common sense.
“These are just people. When they screw up publicly, on the
field or in the gym, it’s news. When they become punch lines off
the clock, so what?….
“I’d like to have been Micheal Vick for a day…and Barry Bonds.
And now, A-Rod.
“Who wouldn’t want that ability, those looks, that wallet?
“One day. Who’d want that publicity, that embarrassment, those
questions, that family living it all? Madonna?
“One day. We’ve long since grown accustomed to bad choices
from the people we revere, be they athletes or politicians. We
know too much about too much, and it has taken from the joy we
feel as fans.
“Wondering whether A-Rod was at Madonna’s place on the
Upper West Side last night shouldn’t matter as much as what he
does today in the ninth inning with a runner on third.
“But it does, apparently. Materially.”
Yup, it does matter….because it’s just fun for many of us to read
this stuff! If you watched A-Rod everyday like we do in the
New York area, it would crack you up. Forget what he has been
doing on the side, he just comes across as the most insincere
person I’ve ever seen in any walk of life, including the biggest
dirtball politicians.
As for the Yankees themselves, they are 6 ½ games out of first
place as I go to post.
—
Just Beer
“Beer, if drunk with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the
spirit and promotes health.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
–Paul Hornung
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend
time with his fools.”
–Ernest Hemingway
“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than
alcohol has taken out of me.”
–Winston Churchill
“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the
world.”
–Kaiser Wilhelm
“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?”
–W.C. Fields
“From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.”
–Saint Arnold of Metz, Patron Saint of Brewers
“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.”
–David Wallace
“The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk,
they’re sober.”
–Wm. Butler Yeats
“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of
mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine
invention, but the wheel does not do nearly as well with pizza.”
–Dave Barry
“Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.”
–W.C. Fields
“As he brews, so shall he drink.”
–Ben Johnson (1573-1637)
“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency
to thank her.”
–W.C. Fields
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach
you to keep your mouth shut.”
–Ernest Hemingway
“I work until beer o’clock.”
–Steven King
“There may be a few good men who don’t drink, but they’ve got
to prove it.”
–Col. Lincoln Kennedy, USMC
Next Bar Chat, Monday.
