NY PostAlex Rodriguez is bringing his own food to restaurants in order to watch his diet as he prepares for spring training in Florida. The Yankee slugger was spotted at the Mondrian Hotel pool in South Beach on Saturday afternoon having lunch with girlfriend Torrie Wilson. But A-Rod didn’t order from the menu — sources say he’s following a special high-protein diet and travels with a cooler of his own grub. Rodriguez was seen asking a waitress to heat up his special meal in the kitchen, while Wilson nibbled on the poolside cafe’s chips and guacamole. A-Rod’s rep declined to comment. On Friday night, he joined his Yankee teammate Derek Jeter at Michael Jordan’s 49th birthday party. Jordan’s fiancée, Yvette Prieto, organized a surprise dinner at Miami’s Forge restaurant, joined by Paula Abdul, who sang “Happy Birthday.” Rodriguez later partied with Jordan and Jeter at South Beach club Mokai. The athletes, all without dates except for Jordan, danced at a table near the DJ booth until 2:30 a.m.

Ahhh, A-Rod. The Original Lebron. The original phenomenal talent who seems to always do everything wrong. Who always says the wrong thing every time he opens his mouth. Alex Rodriguez is the only dude in the world who couldn’t shake his horrible reputation after winning a World Series. Like ordinarily everyone says “Just win” and everything else goes away. Well Arod basically single handedly carried the Yankees to a World Series in 2009 and everyone is still like “Meh, he’s still a bougie dickhead.” And its because of stuff like this. Bringing your own food to restaurants. Does it get more obnoxious than that?

And the ultimate irony is that it actually shows incredible dedication to the game, while simultaneously making things worse for him. He’s so concerned with starting the season healthy and in shape that he brings a fuckin cooler of organic food and shit to the restaurants and makes them cook it for him. But Arod’s biggest problem has always been more mental and struggling to deal with how everyone hates him. So if he just left the cooler at home and acted like a normal dude for once, he’d probably benefit on and off the field more than strictly following his diet.

Anyway, if I was that chef I’d piss in that cooler.