A-Rod Gets A-Surgery

The beauty about a newspaper like the New York Post is that they never sugar coat anything...

George A. King, v 3.0 has the story of a very expensive investment and the impending surgery he's about to have...

"The Yankees have more trust in Dr. Marc Philippon than the rich had in Bernie Madoff."

That's his opening line...

Sweet...

Surgery is set for Monday morning at 7 fo those of you in Vail and would like to attend...

Rodriguez will require additional surgery after the season and it's not known if he will be ready for the start of spring training in 2010.

"To be reasonable it could vary from six weeks to eight or nine weeks. It will depend on his muscular re-balancing, his muscular strength return and stability,'' Philippon said on a conference call this morning.

"There is always risk with surgery but the approach we are using is definitely much safer than letting Alex play the way he is now,'' Philippon said. "There is no more risk doing this procedure than (the aggressive path). The only thing I can say is that because the cam (impingement) would still be there, long term there would be a risk of re-tearing his labrum. But short term, because I will remove part of the impingement we feel the risk is very limited that he will re-tear his labrum during that six, seventh month period.''

A-Rod's Domincan Republic teammates are somewhat pissed at him because he waited until just before the tournament started to tell folks of this revelation. They're still hot about his not wanting to offend either national originality that he didn't play for in WBC 1.

So now we all wait and see if the Good Doctor ((At least the Pinstripers better hope so)) finds anything else while he digging around in there...