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A-Rod Out for 10 Weeks Due to Hip Surgery
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Billy Parker
Published Mar 5, 2009
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It's barely March, but it's fair to say that Alex Rodriguez is not having the best year ever. After reports surfaced yesterday that an MRI showed that tightness he was experiencing in his hip stemmed from a cyst, now word is that the cyst will require surgery that will keep A-Rod out for ten weeks. ESPN learned of this from his brother who told them that surgery to remove the cyst is scheduled for Monday in Colorado. Joe Rodriguez said, "It's a big blow for the whole family. Alex is destroyed. But the most important thing is to have a successful surgery so that Alex may continue his career." The procedure obviously means that A-Rod is out for the World Baseball Classic as well as more than a month of the Yankees inaugural year in their new ballpark. And to add insult to injury, just today the Daily News ran a feature of A-Rod's 10 biggest foot in his mouth quotes—our favorite being his allusion to nightly slumber parties with Derek Jeter.
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