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Article: Rodriguez's New York State of Mind; All-Star Opens Talks to Rejoin the Yankees, Is Negotiating Without His Agent
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- The Washington Post
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- November 15, 2007
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After spending much of the past 21/2 weeks doing everything he
could to alienate himself from the New York Yankees -- and by all
accounts succeeding -- third baseman Alex Rodriguez took his brief
flirtation with free agency in a wholly unexpected direction,
initiating contract talks with his former employers that could
result in Rodriguez's return to the Bronx.
"After spending time with [wife] Cynthia and my family over these
last few weeks," Rodriguez said in a posting on his Web site with a
timestamp of 3:27 p.m. yesterday, "it became clear to me that I
needed to make an attempt to engage the Yankees regarding my future
with the organization."
Rodriguez made it clear that he approached ...