Sean B. Fitzgerald It doesn’t go something like this, it goes exactly like this.

Welcome back you freak.

Tonight in Baltimore, the New York Yankees will welcome back their "star" slugger Alex Rodriguez to the lineup. Ironically, with a 14-16 record and 5.5 games back of the Toronto Blue Jays, the Yankees need Rodriguez more than ever. At this point with the rotation, bullpen, and lineup struggling mightily, New York will put up with the bad publicity magnet that is Arod, if it means he socks a few dingers. And I am sure the rest of the Yankees Universe feels the same way. We will put up with the Madonna-loving, steroid-taking, pitch-tipping, bitch-titting mental midget, if he hits with runner's in scoring position. Also, with Rodriguez in the lineup, it will take some pressure off Mark Teixeira. Who, it's look like, has just as fragile a psyche as Arod. He can barely handle the smattering of boo's from a half-empty Yankee Stadium, imagine if he were back at the old park. He would be taken off the field in a straitjacket muttering, "All boo's and no hits make Marky a dull boy".

Who'd a thunk it? Arod a potential savior? Well, we'll see.