The sad truth about Alex Rodriguez

ByJOHNETTE HOWARD
January 12, 2014, 5:59 PM

— -- Alex Rodriguez is a chronic liar, an admitted PED user and a celebrity whose love of money, records and fame is exceeded only by his paradoxical lack of self-confidence and the pathological behaviors it inspired.

But of all the things Rodriguez lost Saturday when an arbitrator suspended the New York Yankees' 38-year-old third baseman for the 2014 season, what will level A-Rod the most is this: He won't have the simple right to jog out every day from March to October and play the game.

His love of baseball is the most genuine thing about him, his one public posture that is definitely not a lie.