We wrote about A-Rod just a week or two ago, but he’s back in the MLB news. Recently, it was reported that he had hip problems. The news had been that he was going to be out for awhile, then it had been that he was going to get surgery, and then that he was just going to play right through it. Well, he just decided this weekend that he was going to get the hip surgery after all and that he would do well to take some time away. This has a two-part benefit for him. Number one, he can actually get the surgery and heal up before he comes back, avoiding accidentally hurting himself more. Number two, it will give the news sometime to forget about the steroids-issue that he has been having for a month or two. Hopefully he’ll have a speedy recovery. Now, back to real baseball discussion.