NEW YORK — With most guys, the retirement announcement comes before the ceremony.
No, not with most guys. With everyone.
Everyone but Alex Rodriguez.
It's always complicated with him, so of course it was complicated on the night that should mark the end of a brilliant if also monumentally flawed career. Of course the skies roared with thunder Friday, just as Yankee Stadium public address announcer Paul Olden said, "Alex, you've spent 12 of your 22 seasons with the Yankees."
"It was certainly like biblical," Rodriguez himself said later. "You can't make that up.