A-Rod told friend he was in love with Madonna

Love is such a fickle thing. So is sexual preference. Apparently a guy like Alex Rodriguez can fall in love with – and marry – a woman like Cynthia Rodriguez, then turn around and fall in love with Madonna and her Hulk muscles. Clearly the guy doesn’t have a really specific “type.”

Us has an exclusive from a friend of A-Rod’s who says the baseball player told him he was in love with Madonna over dinner six months ago. Which isn’t really a surprise – the notion that the two had just recently met was clearly bullshit.

Just met? Hardly. New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez was smitten with Madonna six months ago when he was exchanging text messages with her while dining with a friend in Miami. "He kept smiling, acting as if he was a little kid," the dinner companion tells Us Weekly in its latest issue, on newsstands now. "He told me it was Madonna," A-Rod's friend says. "I was shocked."

The highest-paid player in baseball then "proceeded to say he was in love with her," the pal tells Us. "I thought he was kidding, but he wasn't." By February, the 32-year-old slugger had upped the ante. "He said, 'She's my f-king soulmate, dude,'" the friend tells Us.

So was it an affair? "Without talking about specifics of sexual conduct, there's no question," her attorney, Earle Lilly, tells Us. "No one very often has pictures of the actual sex itself." While Madonna, 49 – who put on a show of unity with husband Guy Ritchie last week – has denied a relationship with A-Rod, Us Weekly reports all signs say otherwise.

[From Us Weekly]

“‘My fucking soulmate, dude.’” What a romantic statement. Really, the poetic eloquence of A-Rod’s statement would make any woman leave her husband of seven years. I got goose bumps just reading it. Normally that only happens when I read Rumi or Yeats, but that A-Rod really has a way with words.

This is going to be one hell of an ugly divorce. Cynthia Rodriguez seems to be fighting mad – and she seems to have pretty much everyone agreeing with her.

Here’s Alex Rodriguez leaving his midtown apartment as he signs a few autographs for fans today. I mages thanks to Splash. Header with Madonna arriving at the Kabbalah center with Guy Ritchie and their children after getting caught in the rain in New York on Saturday. Photographer: Anthony Dixon. Images thanks to WENN.