There's a stipulation in Alex Rodriguez's contract with the New York Yankees that the slugger is to be paid bonuses for achieving specific "milestone" statistics, namely home runs. Apparently the Yankees believe that if they make no mention of Rodriguez's chase of Willie Mays' historic 660 mark, then they can avoid paying the troubled behemoth athlete.
Rodriguez has hit 655 career home runs, however in a release that the Yankees PR office distributes to the press box before every game, the team made no mention of A-Rod nearing the historic home run tally, while citing other upcoming "milestones" like Didi Gregorius' 200th career game... Hmm...
The Yankees are not nearly as clever as they think that they are and when Rodriguez inevitably hits that 660th home run, they are going to have to own up to their contract and pay the man. As someone who was in attendance for Alex Rodriguez' 600th career home run, it would be disgraceful for the team to make no mention of an even greater milestone. For God's sake, he hit 600 in the bottom of the first and they had the T-Shirts printed before the Yankees went to play defense!
The Yankees can afford to pay Alex Rodriguez, they will pay Alex Rodriguez, and they're not going to avoid anything by not mentioning it.
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