A-ROD'S A YANKEE DOODLE RANDY HITS A STRIP JOINT WITH TORONTO BABE By DAN MANGAN :shock: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICK-TURE: Alex Rodriguez walks into the Four Seasons hotel in Toronto with a woman not his wife before getting on an elevator together. May 30, 2007 -- Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez stepped up to the plate with a mysterious, busty blonde in Toronto, as these intimate, exclusive photos reveal. The cozy duo dined with two pals at a pricey steakhouse late Sunday night, then headed to a glitzy strip club before making their way to his hotel, where the pair ducked into an elevator and headed upstairs just after midnight. Cynthia Rodriguez - A-Rod's wife and mother of their 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Natasha - was nowhere to be seen during the slugger's big night out on the town, which occurred the evening before the last-place Bronx Bombers' pathetic 7-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. And it came as Rodriguez took a room at Toronto's Four Seasons hotel - down the street from the Park Hyatt, where most, if not all of his Yankee teammates and coaches are staying during a three-game stint that ends tonight. "No comment," Rodriguez said when The Post asked him about his north-of-the-border jaunt with the blonde. Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo said A-Rod has "never commented on his personal or private life, and he's not going to start now." Rodriguez went 0-for-3 last night in the Yanks' 3-2 loss to the Blue Jays. A-Rod started his busy Sunday in The Bronx, where the Yankees dropped a third straight game to the Los Angeles Angels. The powerhouse third baseman then flew to Toronto, where he checked into the Four Seasons in the city's posh Yorkville section. After settling in, the 31-year-old A-Rod, the mystery blonde and two men left the Four Seasons in a taxi shortly after 8:30 p.m., and headed to dinner at Harbour Sixty Steakhouse, a ritzy restaurant located about two miles away near the city's harbor and the Rogers Centre, where the Blue Jays play. Rodriguez, who was wearing his wedding band, was casually dressed in jeans and a white, short-sleeved T-shirt featuring a large fleur-de-lis on its left arm. His tight-bodied, bleach-blonde gal pal was clad in a snug pair of blue jeans, a shiny, light T-shirt and wedge-heeled shoes. A witness told The Post that Rodriguez and his three companions spent about two hours dining at Harbour Sixty. Rodriguez and the blonde, and possibly the two other men, then were driven in one of Harbour Sixty's cars two miles to the Brass Rail, a flashy strip club located on Yonge Street. The witness saw A-Rod and the woman go into the Brass Rail just after 11 p.m. Home to what one Web site calls, "Toronto's most beautiful all-nude dancers," the Brass Rail is known for its booming sound system, overflowing crowds, overpriced beers and $20 lap dances - a drop in the bucket for Rodriguez, who has a 10-year contract worth $252 million. Rodriguez and the blonde spent an hour or so at the Brass Rail, the witness said. When they walked out of there, A-Rod and the woman were alone. They then got a cab back to the Four Seasons. Their cab pulled up to the hotel minutes after midnight. A-Rod then strode into the hotel behind her. He rubbed his nose as if to obscure his face to other people as he joined her at the elevator bank. As the doors to an elevator opened, he and the blonde got in together, the witness said. The doors then closed, and they disappeared upstairs.
:idea: Speaking of which... A-Rod's wife hurries to his side in stripper flap BY JONATHAN LEMIRE in Miami, RICH SCHAPIRO in Boston and DAVE GOLDINER in New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Friday, June 1st 2007, 4:00 AM Embattled Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez was seen yesterday arm in arm with an attractive blond - but this time it was his wife. Four days after a paparazzo caught him in Toronto with another woman, A-Rod emerged in Boston yesterday with his gorgeous wife standing by her man. The couple seemed at peace with each other, smiling as A-Rod signed autographs outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Beantown, where the Yankees will take on the hated Red Sox in a three-game series beginning tonight. But when a reporter approached his wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, Alex Rodriguez scowled and brusquely stopped her from answering questions. "It's been enough," said Alex Rodriguez, 31, who wore a white polo shirt and jeans. When last seen, Cynthia Rodriguez, 34, was toting two pieces of luggage Wednesday night as she left their luxury Park Ave. apartment in Manhattan. She was in no mood then to talk about her hubby's coast-to-coast romps in strip clubs and bars, some of them with one specific blond. But although she remained silent yesterday, Cynthia Rodriguez's face seemed far less weary and more relaxed. Sources close to the Yankees told the Daily News that she plans to stay with him through the weekend, then travel with him to Chicago as the Bombers continue a 10-day road trip. The firestorm over the slugger's personal life erupted over the weekend when A-Rod was spotted going to a Toronto strip club and then a hotel with a blond gal pal. Reports quickly flooded in about similar sightings of A-Rod with blonds in other cities. He even has his own favorite hottie in New York - and followed her when she switched from one strip club to another, insiders say. The curvy, brown-eyed stripper, who goes by the name Monique at the Hustler Club, acknowledged knowing Alex Rodriguez but declined to offer any details. "We met at the VIP Club a few years ago. I don't want to get him in anymore trouble than he's already in," she said last night. A-Rod and his wife dined together last night, leaving the Ritz-Carlton in a cab and heading to Grill 23 and Bar in downtown Boston. They were surrounded by security and an entourage. Asked how they were doing, one person in the group said simply, "Good." A-Rod's in-laws also poured cold water on the reports that the $252 million man has been stepping out without his wife. "They're fine," Evangeline Scurtis, 60, Cynthia Rodriguez's mother, said in the driveway of her Miami home. "They're doing fine."
Just a thought, but didn't anyone notice the Post's over-emphasizing the fact that the woman is blonde? That's just their way of saying brown man chasing after white girl.
