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Please stay A-way! Fans want Alex Rodriguez gone

BRONX SNEER: Yankee fans are fed up with fallen star Alex Rodriguez, here at a Trenton Thunder Double A game over the weekend. (
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Yankees fans have had enough of Alex Rodriguez — and would like to see the PED-linked prima donna take a long walk out of The Bronx for good.

“He’s hurting his team, his teammates, and he’s cheating,” limo driver Frank Cedeno, 52, said at the Yankees Clubhouse store on West 42nd Street. “He should be suspended. Anyone that uses those should be gone, and gone for life.”

The slugging third baseman may be hit with a long ban from baseball today, as Commissioner Bud Selig is expected to announce penalties to A-Rod and other players mixed up with a shady, steroid-linked Florida lab called Biogenesis.

Rather than mourn the loss of the high-paid superstar, many Yankees fans said they would love to be rid of him and his $29 million salary.

“I think he should be kicked out, he cheated,” Patrick O’Neil, 28, a West Village resident, said at the Press Box bar on 50th Street and Second Avenue.

“If they have proof that he cheated, then he should be kicked out. He should be suspended within any parameters they [Major League Baseball] have set up.”

He also added: “I think the Yankees will be fine without him.”

The suspension ruling that is expected today comes just as A-Rod is ready to get off a long stint on the disabled list, where he was recovering from a hip injury. He has the right to stay on the team as he appeals any suspension, so he may be in the lineup tonight even if Selig throws the book at him.

The prospect of an embattled and humiliated Rodriguez taking the field had people flocking to Twitter yesterday to mock him.

“Hey @AROD, you should juice up as much as you can while you appeal your suspension. You won’t win, [might] as well go out with a bang,” said a user who took the name “Not Aroid.”

Another user named Quanell said: “Hey @arod ! Great example you are setting for kids. Why don’t you quit and admit cheaters don’t win? Take your dirty money and go away.”

Tweeter Steve Belanger thought maybe A-Rod should have spent less time hobknobbing with Hollywood starlets during tenure in The Bronx .

“Biggest lesson learned from this whole @AROD scandal is that you should NEVER let Cameron Diaz feed you popcorn,” he said.