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Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez Once Paid Six-Figure amount for a Blank Hard-drive: Here’s Why
Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez was one of the best players of his time, no doubt about that. But his life has been full of controversies. There is another fact about A-Rod loves the limelight. Even years after his retirement, he never misses a single chance to get the headlines.
Be it on the field or off the field, A-Rod was one of the smartest players in Major League Baseball. Whenever he got into any trouble, he knew exactly what to do. But once in his life, a normal person fooled him for thousands of dollars.
Notably, A-Rod has always been the smart one in the room, but sometimes even the best one gets someone better than them. And this time it was A-Rod’s turn to pay the price to be the smartest. Yes, it’s hard to believe, but a guy sold a hard drive for a six-figure amount.
Why did Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez pay such a whopping amount for a hard drive?
Like earlier said, fooling A-Rod is not everybody’s cup of tea unless one has got something very special about them. Talking about the incident, Hollywood filmmaker Billy Corben revealed how A-Rod bought an empty hard drive. As per Corben, A-Rod believed that the guy who was selling the hard drive had some classified information.
TAMPA – FEBRUARY 17: Infielder Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees pauses during a press conference about his performance enhancing drug use at the George Steinbrenner complex February 17, 2009 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
But he got nervous and ended up deleting the classified video of MLB authorities buying some stolen records in a diner. And to top that, after deleting the video, the person sold his blank hard drive to Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez for a reportedly six-figure amount.
Talking to Joe Rogan, Corben said, “Alex actually paid six figures for a blank hard-drive. It had a video of MLB buying the stolen records in the diner, but the guy got nervous and deleted it. Alex still bought a hard-drive. They allegedly sent it around the world to data recovery services and weren’t able to recover it. So Alex is paying six figures for a blank hard-drive, for crying out loud.”
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Well, while trying to get that classified video, A-Rod lost his thousands of dollars. Knowing how crazy A-Rod is, had he got his hands on that video, God knows what he would have done with it.
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