A-Rod Was In Fender Bender On Thursday

From Mark Feinsand:

Alex Rodriguez makes headlines virtually everywhere he goes, but the Yankees superstar managed to keep this week's car accident so quiet, even the team's general manager didn't know about it.

Just hours before a press conference in which A-Rod spent nearly 20 minutes discussing his desire to keep his focus on baseball, the third baseman was involved in a minor car accident in Tampa as he drove to Steinbrenner Field. A team source confirmed the incident, referring to the crash of his $400,000 Maybach as "a fender-bender and nothing more."

Brian Cashman told the Daily News that he was unaware of the incident until media reports surfaced on Saturday, and the GM didn't seem very concerned about the details.

"Nobody even brought it to my attention," Cashman said.

I'm surprised it took this long for the media to catch wind of this. It must have really been a minor accident. There were also stories floating around that A-Rod was texting at the time of the accident, but a spokesman for A-Rod denied those rumors. The good thing is that nobody got hurt, that's all that matters.