After hooking up with Madonna, A-Rod was soon frequenting Manhattan's Kabbalah Centre - where he's been spotted recently - in an all-white uniform, the sect's symbol of purity.  
The temple on East 48th Street near Lexington Avenue is the same center that Madonna and her family visited yesterday.  
"I've seen him walking out of it," said doorman Andrew Rodriguez (no relation to A-Rod), who works at a building next door to the center.  
And even when A-Rod wasn't with Madonna, she was there in spirit, according to Romero.  
"He'd be in the gym and if a Madonna video would come on, he'd go into a trance," Romero said.  
And when A-Rod is driving in his car, he'll only listen to Madonna music, the trainer said.  
The third baseman's flirtation with Madonna and her faith led her to introduce him to fellow kabbalah practitioner Guy Oseary - manager of Madonna and other music stars - at a Los Angeles kabbalah center.  
Rodriguez and Oseary became fast friends, and Oseary's influence over A-Rod led the Yankee to a highly publicized breakup with agent Scott Boras, baseball's most powerful player representative, according to a source with knowledge of the split.  
After last season, A-Rod, under Boras' guidance, opted out of his Yankees deal to seek an even bigger contract in the free-agent market.  
That move touched off a PR backlash, and A-Rod, at the urging of his kabbalah pals, dumped Boras and cut his own deal to return to the Yankees.  
He then quickly hired Oseary, becoming the only athlete in the rock manager's stable of A-list entertainers.  
A high-ranking kabbalah source said Madonna, A-Rod and Oseary have shared Friday night Sabbath dinners together.
The disillusioned A-Rod was ripe to look for new answers after what should have been a celebrated 2007 campaign.  
He smashed 54 home runs, but the season ended in personal and team frustration. The Yankees lost to the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the playoffs, while A-Rod was dogged by rumors of infidelity.  
The slugger had been spotted gallivanting around Toronto earlier that summer with a buxom blond stripper.  
As A-Rod got deeper into his newfound faith, he spent more time socializing with Madonna and Oseary - all while growing apart from pregnant Cynthia, who was carrying their second child, sources said.  
The buff Bomber was photographed wearing his wedding ring as recently as a few months ago, but was not wearing it last week.  
As news of A-Rod's and Madonna's rendezvous broke last week, Cynthia left Miami with Romero and his family for Paris to be by the side of a family friend, rock star Lenny Kravitz. She was photographed strolling the streets there sans wedding band.  
And snapshotsfrom the vacation show her and pals visiting the Eiffel Tower and goofing around in a park.  
Still, Romero says the baseball wife is devastated by Rodriguez's alleged marital infidelity.  
"She's taking it pretty hard," said Ray Romero, Dodd's dad.  
"She went there to clear her mind and get away. She feels bad about it."  
A-Rod has consistently refused to answer questions about his relationship with Madonna, pleading with reporters to talk only baseball with him.  
Romero, his family and C-Rod attended two of Kravitz's concerts last week.  
The rocker insists he and Cynthia are no more than friends who hadn't seen each other in two years before last week.  
Romero, who also trains Kravitz, said the rocker text-messaged A-Rod yesterday, asking him: "Clear my name, brother. What is this all about?"  
Yesterday, C-Rod, sporting black spandex and a pink tank top emblazoned with a heart, was spotted pumping iron at a Florida gym, where she broke a sweat to a collection of Kra