Yankee star Alex Rodriguez is superficially a chief league entertainer on and off the lea, and is now existence portrayed by some as a in order . Former New York fitness queen Alicia Marie is the newest to demand a close relationship with A-Rod.

That womenfolk so far who request close or sensual associations with the slugger. Former Candace Houlihan said yesterday she had a “two-nocturnal stay” with Rodriguez in 2004. “I feel like I reversed the jinx,” Houlihan joked of her romps with the . The Yankees lost to Boston in the American League playoffs and Boston went on to win the World Series, breaking an 86-year drought between championships.

Marie called Rodriguez a “love” in an round table with Boston newspapers and insisted that while they have completed time lonely at her studio, they are just “close friends.”

Rodriguez, who is now presence called a in sequence seducer by some tabloids, has also been concurrent to Madonna, but relationship appears to be companionable. The Yankee slugger who recently signed a 10-year $270 squillion bond, has yet to file a answer to his wife, Cynthia’s break up proceedings in Florida.

Marie told The New York Daily News Rodriguez infrequently her Chelsea studio apartment to lend a compassionate ear “when I had just gone through a unification and divorce.” “I am well aware that populace will assume the fixed best here, but Alex was, and to this day carcass, just a close contact,” siad the 5-foot-10 brunette, who denied having a fleshly relationship “Friends hang out together in each fresh’s apartments!”

Marie now lives in Atlanta. She to have a thing for ball players, and reportedly recently overdrawn up with fromer Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, who once called Mets fans “” and said New York has too many “foreigners” in a 1999 Sports Illustrated dialogue