Through 21 seasons of big-league action, Alex Rodriguez has suffered losses of all kinds. Competitive. Financial. Personal. Reputational.
Monday night’s big news, however, will not go down as a loss for America’s most beloved supervillain.
Rather, it’s a loss for baseball.
Alex Rodriguez is not an All-Star, and that’s just a darn shame for those of us who enjoy some spice in our lives and who take pleasure in taunting moralistic finger-waggers. More to the point, it gives American League manager Ned Yost a worse chance to capture home-field advantage for his league’s World Series representative, and it surely deletes a ratings point or three from the Midsummer Classic’s telecast on July 14.