Where Will It End With Arod? Now It's "Escorts"

And the saga continues...

For those that haven't seen it, today's NY Daily News has another tabloid story about Alex Rodriguez, only now it's hookers and not steroids.

(See bottom of this post for his apology)

A former Manhattan madam who supplied Eliot Spitzer with hookers also counted Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez as a customer - and found him so charming she dated him herself for free, former employees of the call-girl agency tell the Daily News.

A-Rod wooed ex-madam Kristin Davis with flowers, jewelry, persistence and heated e-mails, according to the sources.

"Throughout the years, there were a number of clients that I befriended and it was not uncommon for them to want the women they can't have whether it be the phone bookers or the madam," Davis said.

"In regard to Alex, all I can say is our paths have definitely crossed personally and professionally."

Davis met Rodriguez in June of 2006 in a gym in Philadelphia, shortly after she opened a branch of her call-girl service in the City of Brotherly Love, sources said.

Davis told a friend the then-married Rodriguez asked her, "What are you doing tonight?"

The shapely madam didn't know who A-Rod was but found him "hot as hell," she told the friend. "I said, 'I'm having dinner with my boyfriend. But if you're looking for someone to hang out with, here's a number.' I gave him my agency's card."

That night, Davis told a friend, Rodriguez booked a two-hour "date" with one of her girls, who met him at the Four Seasons on Rittenhouse Square.

"He gave his real name," Davis told the friend. "The next day we found out who Alex Rodriguez was. The girl we sent freaked out. Her father (works for) another Major League Baseball team."

Rodriguez soon became a repeat customer of one of Davis' three Manhattan agencies, two former employees said.

In an e-mail exchange provided to The News by a former booker for Davis' Wicked Models, Rodriguez purportedly told Davis on Nov. 17, 2006: "Thanks for setting me up with Samantha. She was gorgeous. But she is not you. When can I see you you are gorgeous . . ."

The exchange goes on:

Davis: "Hi Alex. You don't want to see me. I'm no fun. lol. Just because your (sic) so sweet, here are some pics of me and I appreciate the compliments. Your (sic) a doll. Thanks, Kristin"

Rodriguez: "You have been playing hard to get for a year now, your (sic) killing me."

Davis: "It's not playing I am hard to get. Maybe you should try harder."

Rodriguez: "Kristin, I definitely will and I love the pics. I put the one on my cell so I can look at you all the time. Alex."

Davis: "You are too sweet. I'll let you know when I get someone you like."

Two former agency workers said A-Rod hired prostitutes more than a half-dozen times, often meeting them at the Four Seasons hotel on W. 57th St.

Here's a hint of what his apology on Oprah will look like.

Scene: A teary-eyed Alex sits across from Oprah, who is looking motherly, yet with a hint of tenderness behind the scorn...

Oprah: Alex, you are handsome, talented, rich as all get out chile', but why the hookers?

Alex: I was young, I was stupid, I made a mistake, the other guys in the clubhouse had female friends too.

Oprah: And what were you thinking when you were doing all this stuff with your "friends"?

Alex: I was young, I was stupid, I made a mistake, the other guys in the clubhouse had female friends too.

Oprah: And what's next for you? How do you get past this?

Alex: I was young, I was stupid, I made a mistake, the other guys in the clubhouse had female friends too. And I just hope Yankee fans will see it in their hearts to forgive me, for I want nothing more than to be a true Yankee.

(40 second pause...ARod turns to his 2 teammates in attendance, neither of whom speak much English but were told to be there, and says with weepy eyes)

Alex: Thank you.