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[Eli's Gone]

This also further marginalizes ARod...I got a kick out of this thought re: Girardi:

There is a school of thought that this is all part of a Yankee plan to humiliate Rodriguez to the point that he will quit and leave his money behind, but there's about as much chance of that as there is of Joe Girardi becoming the front man for a hip-hop group. Still, with no legal recourse to void A-Rod's contract and apparently little stomach for paying off his contract and releasing him, humiliation may be the only weapon the Yankees have left.

Short of a permanently disabling injury that would allow both parties to go their separate ways with some measure of dignity and financial satisfaction -- A-Rod would get the rest of the money owed on his contract and the Yankees would recoup some insurance money -- this could continue to be a long, drawn-out, messy divorce.