Sleazy Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has set off the wrath of a pop icon after ending his long-rumored romance with Madonna and dutifully returning to his ex-wife, Cynthia, in the wake of his steroid-use scandal.

The Material Girl is furious.

“Madge is pissed!” an insider revealed to the New York Daily News on Thursday. “Alex ran right home to Cynthia, and to Madonna, this is the ultimate dis.”

“But Alex’s handlers want to make sure he’s as far from Madonna as possible,” the spy blabbed. “He has enough negative publicity as it is.”

Tabloid tattles say Madge especially hurt that A-Roid turned to Cynthia for comfort in his time of need instead of her.

Ummm…did Madonna forget that she’s been spotted playing tonsil-hockey all over the pages of W Magazine with Brazilian model Jesus Luz?

Apparently not, and she’s got a good explanation for that.

“Madonna and A-Rod have been burning up the phones,” the Daily News spy claims, “and she keeps on insisting that Jesus is just a PR stunt. Alex says he understands, and now he’s asking her to understand that salvaging his career is his priority.”

Madonna isn’t giving up without a fight. The singing star is determined to get the steroid-poppin’ slugger back in her web.

“Madge is totally making a play to get him back….Madonna just wishes he had come to her. She has been the subject of negative press her whole career, and she wants to help him understand that this too shall pass.”

“She’s so desperate to see Alex, she’s plotting a way that they can sneak out to the Hamptons to work things out. She wants to have some alone time.”

Alex Rodriguez cheated on his pregnant wife with a stripper. Beantown stripper Candice Houlihan says the Yankees third baseman dipped his bat in her during two intimate encounters in 2004; Cynthia was pregnant with the oldest of the couple’s two daughters.

“If it’s true Madonna has sampled Alex’s charms, then she’ll know what I mean when I say she’s a lucky lady,” thirty-two year old Candice tells NOTW.

Candice says she met the slugger in a Boston nightclub when he was in town battling the Red Sox.

“And if not then I can tell her he is the most amazing lover she’ll ever have and she should give it a whirl…..I know she’s very sexually experienced but I bet even she hasn’t experienced anything like Alex before.”

“What he can do to satisfy a woman is amazing—he’s very gifted in that department,” she says.

“The two nights I shared with him were magical and given half the chance I would do it again in a heartbeat—even though I felt bad when I found out about his wife. In that way he’s just like any other guy.”

“….I think her divorcing him is the smart thing to do. A leopard never changes his spots.”

The ante just went up in the bitter divorce battle between Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and his estranged wify Cynthia. Celebrity spies say Mrs. Rodriguez has copies of sexy text messages her husband allegedly sent to Madonna-proving her claims that the pair engaged in an “emotional affair.”

“They were instrumental in convincing her that he was besotted. The messages could be released if things get really ugly,” a source told a UK tabloid.

Madonna has a few words for Cynthia Rodriguez’ legal team: “Shut your piehole!” The notoriously promiscuous Material Girl is livid over Cynthia’s claims that the pop legend engaged her husband, New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, in a non-sexual, but emotional, extramartial affair.

“Madonna is outraged. She told his wife Cynthia’s lawyers not to make any more statements about her – in short, shut up.”

The Rodriguez’ are in the first stages of a bitter $50 million divorce battle. “The correct analysis is a relationship. Some people categorise an affair as sexual infidelity. We’re not claiming that – it’s an affair of the heart,” one of Cynthia’s attorney, Earle Lilly, said of Madonna’s relationship with Alex.

“Cynthia has tolerated a lot of misconduct, but this one was the final straw. Having Madonna sit in his box at baseball games, and the Kabbalah meetings that have taken place? it’s like an open forum. It’s just short of embarrassing if nothing else,” the attorney added.

Cynthia Rodriguez spent the weekend blowing $100,000 of Alex Rodriguez’ money just before filing for a divorce from the Yankees slugger in a Miami court on Monday.

Cynthia’s wasting no time taking A-Rod to the cleaners, a disgusted pal of the third baseman told the New York Daily News Tuesday. (And you thought the Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook divorce was ugly.) Cynthia flew to Paris and “had spa treatments [and] went to the best restaurants,” courtesy of her estranged hubby’s Mastercard.

“She’s been spending wildly,” the spy said.

New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife of five years, Cynthia Rodriguez, will file for divorce in Miami-Dade County Family Court on Monday morning. Cynthia walked out on her marriage last week amidst claims her third baseman husband has been having an affair with singer Madonna. The relationship with Madonna is just one in a string of A-Rod’s cheating scandals, Cynthia says.

She can no longer tolerate his cheating with a string of beauties, the New York Daily News wrote Monday.

“She has reached the end of her ability to tolerate his continued marital misconduct,” Cynthia’s divorce lawyer Earle Lilly told the NYDN. “As a baseball player, the guy’s terrific. This is the game of real life, and that’s where he’s not going to make the all-star team. As a parent and as a husband, he’s not going to get voted in.”