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A-Rod Loves Everybody

Feb 22, 2008 – 6:15 PM
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Tom Fornelli

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I don't know what Alex Rodriguez got for Valentine's Day last week, but whatever it was, it has surely filled his heart with love. His heart is so filled, in fact, that he has lots of extra love to spread around, and it seems he's decided to give all that love to his Yankees teammates.

First Alex offered up his unborn daughter to Andy Pettite, and now he wants us all to know how awesome Derek Jeter is.
"I think Jeter is going to have an MVP season," Rodriguez said. "That's my prediction for the year. And Bobby's [Abreu] going to have a monster year."

"I think [Jeter]'s going to have an explosive, monster season. I think he's in great shape. I think he did some great things this winter with his workouts. I'm very excited for his year."
Does this mean that A-Rod and Jeter are BFF's again? Have the sleepovers resumed?

Or does Alex have a more sinister reason for his praise of Derek? Could it be that Rodriguez is somehow hoping that he can deflect all the attention away from him this season, and place it on Jeter? No? I didn't think so either, Alex is probably just saying this because that's what Alex does: he kisses everybody's butt.
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