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Article: Hank's final gift: the juiced-up hoax
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- February 9, 2009
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IAN O'CONNOR
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
02-09-2009
Hank's final gift: the juiced-up hoax
IAN O'CONNOR
Date: 02-09-2009, Monday
Section: SPORTS
Edtion: All Editions
Alex Rodriguez could be dying a thousand big-league deaths on someone else's watch. He could be sucking the life force out of a franchise far, far away from the team that fired him in one breath and hired him back in the next.
Hank Steinbrenner should take the nuclear hit for that. In his brief and embarrassing time as overlord of the Yanks, before kid brother, Hal, grabbed a cane and hooked him off George's old stage, Hank violated his own public pledge.
Fifteen minutes after swearing he wouldn't re-sign A-Rod if the third baseman ...