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NY Post: A-Rod close again with old pal Jeter

They drove here together yesterday from Tampa for the Yankees’ split-squad 6-0 win over the Pirates. And they left together. Before the game they played catch and long toss together, ran together in the outfield and even walked into the clubhouse together along the right-field line at 12:01 after they were done with their early work while a group of Yankees were still taking batting practice.

“They’ve definitely grown closer,” one Yankee official told me.

They are laughing and joking together more, and during Sunday’s workout in Tampa they spent a lot of time talking in short leftfield on a back field. They are enjoying being teammates.

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Guapo Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:17 PM | 33 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Alberto Gilardino Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:55 PM (#3475870)

Yes, but do they have each other's statues and/or murals in their bedrooms?

2. My Grate Friend, Peason Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:58 PM (#3475873)

Hey look, a Fresh, New topic for sportswriters to mull over. Now I'm really looking forward to This Year in Baseball Journalism.

3. JMPH Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:58 PM (#3475875)

Yes, but do they have each other's statues and/or murals in their bedrooms?

Seriously, until Jeter is making love beneath a painting of A-Rod as a centaur, this feud is not over.

4. majorflaw Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:06 PM (#3475878)

BRADENTON, Fla. -- The bond of winning a championship together has created a tighter bond between Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.

Now that's what I call great writing.

5. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:06 PM (#3475880)

New Yankee Logo.

6. JMPH Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:08 PM (#3475883)

New Yankee Logo.

I clicked with considerable fear.

7. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:14 PM (#3475888)

A-Rod after he got home from his day with Jeter.

8. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:17 PM (#3475889)

I clicked with considerable fear.

Pretty snazzy, huh?

9. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:17 PM (#3475891)

A-Rod after he got home from his day with Jeter.

Now this is a link I want nothing to do with.

10. phredbird

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:22 PM (#3475896)

pedro and quentin!

11. Howzer Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:22 PM (#3475897)

Are they going to share Madonna?
Or maybe get together with a certain Yankee sportscaster for a night?

12. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:26 PM (#3475903)

Are they going to share Madonna?
Or maybe get together with a certain Yankee sportscaster for a night?

Is this a reference to Michael Kay's extended bachelorhood?

13. Swedish Chef Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:07 PM (#3475952)

Seriously, until Jeter is making love beneath a painting of A-Rod as a centaur, this feud is not over.

In the locker room, Yankees spring training complex. Jeter runs into A-Rod, who's admiring himself in the mirror.

"Hey, Rod, what's up?"
"Hey, Jetes, you heard that Kate left me?"
Jeter raises his eyebrows, "She left you just like that?"
"She said I had to choose between her and the paintings."
"The Centaur ones?"
A-Rod nods.
Jeter looks aghast, "But those are great!"
A-Rod nods again.
Jeter continues, "Speaking of those, would you mind if I borrowed one? Me and Minka is planning some high fantasy role play, and they would go great with it."
"No, what is it you're planning?"
"Just a little Lord of the Rings, Eowyn is going to get some elfish love from Legolas to celebrate six months of monogamy."
"But there are no centaurs in Middle Earth."
Jeter raises an eyebrow but remains silent.
A-Rod scratches his chin and continues, "But of course it could be a representation of Rohirrim myths, and anyway the Beornings show that Tolkien conceived the boundary between man and animal to be fluid."
"You got it."
"But Eowyn and Legolas never... never mind ...this Uruk Hai is going to find some elfish maiden to ravage!"

14. Into the Void Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:21 PM (#3475961)

With all the sarcasm around here it's nice to have a heartwarming article such as this posted. Thank you Guapo.

15. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:26 PM (#3475967)

13, you really have a lot of free time, don't you? (though I'm suprised that Jeter and A-Rod did not have time to discuss the life and exploits of Turín Turambar).

16. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:32 PM (#3475975)

Omygod you ####### nerds!

17. I Am Not a Number Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:32 PM (#3475976)

One presumes that Kernan, as a professional courtesy, omitted the details of the tickle fight.

18. Swedish Chef Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:38 PM (#3475979)

13, you really have a lot of free time, don't you?

No way! Writing "sports stars in Middle Earth" fanfiction is almost a full time job.

19. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:45 PM (#3475984)

13, you really have a lot of free time, don't you?

He's not super busy like the rest of us who are saving humanity by reading baseball stories.

20. Ron Johnson Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:58 PM (#3475994)

#19, Reading is no problem. It's the commenting that's the killer.

21. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:06 PM (#3475999)

A-Rod-Jeter theme song.

22. RJ in TO Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:10 PM (#3476003)

#19, Reading is no problem. It's the commenting that's the killer.

Especially since most of us cut out the reading, and skip directly to the commenting. Besides, who really needs to know anything more than the title to have an informed opinion on the content?

23. Ron Johnson Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:18 PM (#3476008)

#22 -- an uninformed opinion will do. Plus there's the option to comment on a comment. Or to let people know what you really think about the battle of Jutland (though these technically should be save for a Craig C. thread)

24. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:43 PM (#3476028)

Jellicoe decided not to risk the Empire on a roll of the dice. That's my take, and I'm sticking with it.

25. birdlives is one crazy ninja Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:45 PM (#3476030)

Are the sleepovers back on?

26. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:50 PM (#3476033)

Now this is a link I want nothing to do with.

Chicken.

27. Gamingboy Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:51 PM (#3476034)

Okay, now time to figure out how to destroy their friendship.

28. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: March 09, 2010 at 11:00 PM (#3476043)

Okay, now time to figure out how to destroy their friendship.

You break them up by trading Jeter for Hanley Ramirez and A-Rod for Longoria. That'll show those dirty Yanks.

29. wjones Posted: March 09, 2010 at 11:43 PM (#3476074)

"Just a little Lord of the Rings, Eowyn is going to get some elfish love from Legolas to celebrate six months of monogamy."
"But there are no centaurs in Middle Earth."

Well, maybe he was confused. J.R.R. Tolken and C.S. Lewis did go to school together.

30. Gamingboy Posted: March 09, 2010 at 11:46 PM (#3476076)

You break them up by trading Jeter for Hanley Ramirez and A-Rod for Longoria. That'll show those dirty Yanks.

Okay, next suggestion!

31. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: March 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM (#3476091)

Okay, next suggestion!

You trade Jeter for Pujols, Teixeira for Ramirez, A-Rod for Howdy Doody, and Howdy Doody for Wright and Santana. That'll put half a continent between them and they'll become wrapped up in the 62 year old Clarabell-Cardinals blood feud. Problem solved.

32. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: March 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM (#3476092)

You break them up by trading Jeter for Hanley Ramirez and A-Rod for Longoria. That'll show those dirty Yanks.

There's always Naples, Florida to meet up and hang....

33. Dale Sams Posted: March 10, 2010 at 12:07 AM (#3476093)

That'll show those dirty Yanks.

Ptt...212 miles of Florida asphalt couldn't part those two.

edit: passes half-full coke and rum above to Wally Cox in square number 2.

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