• If it truly is the A-Rod of stadiums, then this slashing of ticket prices is like a meaningless Rodriguez home run in the late innings. Lowering prices from $2,500 to $1,250 helps who exactly?

•  If a pitcher suddenly loses velocity and becomes a shell of his former self, why do we think that throwing in the eighth inning will cure him? Shouldn’t we, in the post-Mitchell Report era, at least consider that he could have been juicing? That’s what we do with sluggers who suddenly stop hitting.

•  It is nearly May and the Yankees will end it exactly where they ended last season - in third place. The popular belief now is that A-Rod is going to be the savior. But we’ve heard that one every season and we no longer believe it.