All eyes will be on a small tent behind the third-base stands at Steinbrenner Field today as Alex Rodriguez addresses the media.
A-Rod will be talking to the media following his admission that he used banned drugs, although the Yankees still didn't know how many specifics of his drug use. They are about to find out.
"I don't think it's necessary in my eyes that he answer every detail," Manager Joe Girardi said Monday.
But don't expect Rodriquez to be all alone in front of the cameras, as Tampa Bay Online reports, he will just be the center of a much larger three-ring circus of advisors.
The image-conscious Rodriguez appears to be formulating his strategy surrounded by an entourage large enough to fill a television series. Even before Sports Illustrated reported on its website February 7 that Rodriguez tested positive for a pair of steroids during baseball's anonymous survey in 2003, Team A-Rod included agent Scott Boras and his staff, manager Guy Oseary and the William Morris Agency.
He has retained James E. Sharp, a lawyer who represented Pettitte and Sammy Sosa before Congress and then-President George W. Bush in front of a federal prosecutor. Rodriguez also brought in Outside Eyes, a media strategy and crisis management company based in Newport Beach, California, that includes communications specialists from Republican campaigns.
What we are hoping for is straight answers, but with that lot behind, beside and in front of A-Rod, there seems little hope of that.
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