"I didn't like him that well."

So says the man who's obligated to pay Alex Rodriquez a quarter of a billion dollars.

I wonder sometimes if Alex Rodriquez will go down historically as a sort of reverse curse of the Babe.

Remember, Seattle won 116 games in their first season after losing Rodriguez to free agency. And the team that signed him got a lot worse. Once Texas traded Rodriquez to the New York Yankees, the team started getting better.

And the Yankees, after getting Rodriguez executed the most memorable post season collapse in Major League Baseball history, blowing a 3-0 ALCS lead to the Boston Red Sox.