WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. And now for the biggest news in baseball today ... other than the Red Sox winning that little thing called the World Series ... no biggie ... Alex Rodriguez has opted out of his $252 million, 10-year Yankees contract.

Make no mistake, every year a Yankee will try and most likely succeed in stealing the postseason spotlight -- regardless if the team is playing or not.

And what better night to steal the spotlight than the night the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.

Classy, not trashy.

Upon hearing the news, Steinbrenner -- now the figurehead of the Yankees' baseball operations -- sent a scathing message Rodriguez's way.

"It's clear he didn't want to be a Yankee," Steinbrenner told the New York Daily News. "He doesn't understand the privilege of being a Yankee on a team where the owners are willing to pay $200 million to put a winning product on the field.

"I don't want anybody on my team that doesn't want to be a Yankee."

Steinbrenner also answered the question of whether there's any chance he could change his mind. "We're not going to back down," he said. "It's goodbye."

I'm not sure what A-Rod's agent, Scott Boras, was attempting to accomplish by announcing Rodriguez is testing the free agent market during the World Series. I mean, for people who think of A-Rod as a cry baby or a punk, or a postseason loser ... this move certainly won't change their mind.

The golden question is which team will be able ... other than the Yankees ... to pay Rodriguez the $30 million a year that Boras and Rodriguez are demanding?

Ironically, the team that could is the Boston Red Sox. Too bad for Alex though, the Sox just proved they don't really need him. (Sweeping the World Series and what not .. no biggie.)