I believe A-Rod gets 25.2 mil a year for 10 years, thus making the 252 million. (he may just average that and get 22 now, 28 later or something)
Always been a fan of A-Rod, not so much now that he's joined the Yankees. Great player, but can't be the best until he's won a World Series. It's ridiculous that he's been on the teams he has been (Seattle with Griffey, Johnson, Martinez among many others and the get-whoever-we-want Yankees) and doesn't have a ring. As his former Rangers teammates named him, he is "The Cooler" as it seems whenever he leaves a team, they start winning. That has to say something about his clubhouse effect.