Posted on 01/11/2014 10:19:54 AM PST by djf
A-Fraud.....your 15 minutes are up. Please exit the league and return to obscurity.
That’s certainly one area Rangers and Mariners fans can agree on.
Baseball doesn’t have a hard salary cap, but they do impose a huge tax on teams that go above a certain cap. The Yankees have been over that cap for more than decade. Anyway, paying $25 million or for nothing is not good.
I heard the 50 game reduction will restore about $9 million in salary!
Correct. The team could make a case for that if they have a poor '14 season. He could counter that claim by saying it was MLB that suspended him for the season. Would A-hole get a sympathetic jury in NYC? I dunno. He could. They just elected a self-admitted commie as Mayor, and the jury would be from that pool of nitwits.
Oooops, oldtimers disease strikes again. Thanks for the memory jog.
Asmus?
That Dang Pizza-man is trying to save money by hiring an “unproven”? Maybe he’s a GOPe and it just “his turn”?
I'm sure Major League Baseball contracts have standard provisions that specify exactly what actions constitute a breach of contract, and a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs is not one of them. Usually a player can only breach the contract if he puts himself in a position where he cannot fulfill the terms of the contract -- by getting imprisoned (like Plaxico Burress of the NY Giants a few years ago), or by injuring/killing himself in the process of doing something risky outside of baseball. Baseball fans may remember that the Yankees only went out and got Rodriguez after they voided the contract of their previous third baseman -- Aaron Boone -- who had suffered an off-season injury playing basketball.
Ironically, Rodriguez's PED use might even be seen as point in his favor if the Yankees try to void the contract. He can surely make the case that he has gone to great lengths to make sure he was able to perform at an extraordinary level of excellence for his employer!
Not likely. He'd be wise to get a change of venue to a more sympathetic city. Seattle, for example.
There’s a reason you’re considered one of the best....
Forcing a 38 year old to miss a full year of playing, basically is forcing him to retire.
Unless he continues to work out, at a professional level, the year off will doom him. At 38, he's already in the twilight of his career. Every year it becomes harder and harder to hold off the young bucks. He'll be 39 years 9 months when the 2015 season starts. 40 years old, after having 1 year off.
Derek Jeter is 39. This is probably his last year.
A-Rod says he’s going to fight it in federal court. His statement as well as comments by other involved parties can be found here:
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