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...this is not Derek Jeter masquerading as the V-Spot. Alex Rodriguez did all of baseball a favor by taking Tom Hicks' ridiculous 10 year, $252 million contract to play shortstop for the Texas Rangers. Mark my words, when the history of baseball is written, this contract will be considered as epoch changing as the actions of Curt Flood and Marvin Miller...
...this contract is a slap in the face to the entire economic system of the game. The Seattle Mariners are by no means a poor team. They have a brand new, well-attended facility in Safeco Field, and they offered Rodriguez somewhere around $150 million to stay put. The fact is that GM Pat Gillick has done everything right over the past couple of years to bring his club to the precipice of contention...
...their clients' image? "Stylistically, I think there's a mistake being made here," says Leigh Steinberg, who was the real-life model for the fictional Jerry Maguire and who represents no athlete yet mentioned. "There's an insensitivity on the part of Woods and the Williams sisters and Rodriguez in the way they're floating these large amounts of money, a 'Let them eat cake' aspect to a family [with an] income of $30,000. This is, in essence, rubbing it in the face." Echoes David Falk, who represents Michael Jordan: "The public has no taste for listening to people...
Recently, though, I came into possession of what may be the ultimate weapon for people like me who hate cell-phone abusers: the C-Guard "cellular firewall," a $900 device that jams cellular calls. My pal Roger Rodriguez, a gentle soul who works in TIME magazine's tech department, actually ordered one. "I wanted to try it out," he explained. He had a look in his eye that I recognized...
...Rodriguez lent me the thing, which is roughly the size of a paperback novel. It has a short, ugly black antenna that screws on. For power, you can plug it into the wall or use a battery pack. It's simple to operate: you flip a switch, and the appliance does its thing, obliterating cellular transmissions in an area comparable to a medium-size movie theater. That's in cities; out in the country, where the distance between cells is greater, the device can take out one whole floor of a building...