This breakfast took place just two days prior to A-Rod first at-bat of the season, a home run off Jeremy Guthrie in Baltimore. It seems like Yankees fans owe the people at this meeting a big thank you for their efforts. I would have to say their methods worked.From Ian O'Conner:“I sat down with two very close friends and they told me a lot of things,” Rodriguez said Tuesday, “things that I had to change. They showed me tough love, and I thought from that breakfast on I’ve stayed with the plan and it’s been a good plan.”Gui Socarras, a longtime friend, and Jason Zillo, the Yankees’ director of media relations and an official close to A-Rod, arranged the breakfast at the diner on North Dale Mabry. This was in the first week of May, when the Yankees were in town to play the Rays.In effect, Socarras and Zillo told Rodriguez he needed to stop acting like a horse’s rump.“I’m glad I had two good friends that were very honest with me,” A-Rod said, “and told me the way it was.”“It was ob...
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