Rosenthal: Inside A-Rod and J-Lo’s audacious bid to buy the Mets – The Athletic

Heres how the story may have gone.
Alex Rodriguez, born in Washington Heights at the northern end of Manhattan, comes house to New York by signing with the Mets at the 2000 winter conferences. He then spends the rest of his career with the franchise, playing “tidy” in a period of performance-enhancing drugs, taking his put on the Mount Rushmore of all-time baseball greats. When the team comes up for sale in 2020, soon after his retirement, other interested bidders step aside. A-Rod, all agree, need to be the owner.
Heres how the story really went.
The Mets withdrew from the bidding for Rodriguez in 2000, triggering him, at 25, to sign a record 10-year, $252 million contract with the Rangers. Previous Mets basic supervisor Steve Phillips stated he feared producing a “24-plus-one male roster” and destroying “the material of the team” because of Rodriguezs off-field needs, which supposedly included workplace …