* Anyone who watched Alex Rodriguez during last season’s AL Championship Series knows he is finished as a professional baseball player. I don’t think the Yankees should have to pay the remainder of his contract because he signed the contract under false pretenses. A-Rod should short-circuit the whole process and retire. He owes it to the Yankees, who made him a rich man; he owes it to the fans, for whose admiration he had no regard; and he owes it to baseball, which used to be a game people could believe in. If I had a vote for the Hall of Fame, I wouldn’t vote for any of these creeps who took performance-enhancing drugs because they put themselves ahead of the game I love.
KEN DREXLER
North Woodmere, N.Y.
* It’s funny how the Yankees were never horrified by Alex Rodriguez’s lying and cheating until he became incapable of helping them win.
ALAN HIRSCHBERG
Forest Hills
Far from Amazin’
* These weak pickups and pray-that-they-work trades by Mets general manager Sandy Alderson are building toward another lost season. For every 10 guys Alderson signs for a few million bucks, he could sign at least two decent free agents. For every All-Star and Cy Young winner he has traded, he has gotten only prospects — and although they may pan out in the future, he will bury them in the minors this year.
WAYNE O’CONNOR
Levittown, N.Y.
Ray of dope
* The article by Maureen Callahan on Ray Lewis in last Sunday’s Post [“The tarnish on Ray’s halo,” The Post and nypost.com, Jan. 27] rehashed my distaste for pro athletes who are still pampered and worshipped despite criminal acts and very bad behavior toward society and to their own families. Lewis should have been held accountable at the very least for the coverup of the murders he was arrested for. Plaxico Burress shoots himself in the leg and does time, but Lewis avoids prison even though lives were lost? If I were completely innocent of a crime, I would fight to the end. But hey, Lewis now is so revered ESPN has a job waiting for him (no surprise there) and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is hiring him as a special adviser and considers the Ravens linebacker “a voice of reason.” Excuse me, I just puked on my iPad!
JOE SANCHEZ
Manhattan
Not Pro-Bowled over
* Commissioner Roger Goodell, please pull the plug on that embarrassment called the Pro Bowl. There was no hitting, linemen gently pushed and hugged each other while exchanging pleasantries, and I’ve seen much harder tackling in the Lingerie Football League. End the farce, and donate the milllions it costs to produce this joke of a game to Hurricane Sandy relief.
MICHAEL MAURER
Long Branch, N.J.
How bout them Jets?
* Having to root for either of these teams for the Super Bowl has made this postseason hard enough, without my sweet little 7-year-old daughter asking me “How are the Jets doing?” D’Oh!
BILL O’ROURKE
Port Washington, N.Y.
Rated X
* I wonder if President Obama would allow his daughters to complete in ESPN’s X-Games?
ANDY ROMANIC
Freeport, N.Y.