You might be right about the Hillary curse, but getting rid of A Rod will free some money to get some decent pitching.
Your right about pitching, but the Yankees will sure miss A Rod's bat during the course of the long season. Boy could the Detroit Tigers use A Rod at 3B. We have the pitching. Ortiz and Ramirez are 2 of the best 3-4 hitters I've seen in a while. Boston's entire lineup 1-9 seemed to have outstanding discipline at the plate. I can see why they won it all (not having followed baseball at all during the regular season).