Posted on 08/05/2013 4:09:00 PM PDT by Biggirl
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Alex Rodriguez has been banned for 211 regular-season games by Major League Baseball for his part in the sport’s latest performance-enhancing drugs scandal.
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Ditto.
You don’t get it. The Yanks PRAY to dump his insane contract! Now, they’re pressuring MLB to do it for them.
A-Rod was a dud and his contract is probably the stupidest in baseball history (well, except for the Red Sox selling the Bambino's contract, but that's a different issue).
Since A-Rod is ineffective even when healthy, the Yankees want to drop his contract and get $80 million to spend on free agents. And with a little help from their friends in the Commissioner's office, they may be able to do it.
He continues to play while appeal is pending. Could take 4-5 months which means he plays remainder of season on contract.
If suspension upheld, he’s gone 211 games without pay.
Then the Yanks figure out how to dump him.
Lenghthy court battles loom.
Baseball has always loved drugs.
Professional baseball has (undeniably) promoted and glorified drug abuse for generations.
But baseball wants performance degrading drugs.
And that is why we see Mickey Mantle and so many others like him lionized. Heavy boozers whose train wreck stories entertained the sports public every bit as much as their exploits on the field.
Feel free to be upset about this post.
All your upset doesn’t earn you your own set of facts.
No, YOU don't get it.
Read carefully now: WHO CARES?!
So how did the commissioner come up with 211? There’s 162 regular season games, so why not 162, or 243 (1 1/2 seasons) or 324 (two seasons)?
I think it includes the rest of this year and all of next
This is the Mickey Mantle story I heard. Mantle was going to get the next day game off, so he and Ford and Martin went out the night before and got blasted; a not too uncommon event. Mantle showed up and dressed for the game, finding a place in the dugout to hunker down and nurse his aching head.
The game was close and down to the wire, so Stengel looked down the bench in the bottom of the 8th and called Mantles name. Mantle went out and hit a 562 foot home run (maybe his longest).
Or as Lincoln said about Grant being an alcoholic, find out what he drinks and give a case to all the generals.
I am with you.
Every professional athlete could disappear tomorrow and I would never miss a beat.
Baseball has provided lurid stories for the salacious as well as uplifting stories for the masses stuck in a mundane life.
MLB knows that fair competition is the heart of baseball.
2 little——2 late
Me, too. I never got the attraction. But I have several friends who would curl up and die.
Just starting to listen to the Boston vs. Houston game, Boston away. They just talked about the A-Rod suspenstion.
Dear Leader and holder should look into this.
I dropped mlb when they went on strike for the first time.
LLS
Looks like this will become like a sports mini-series.
I dropped it when the struck the World Series.
its perfectly legal...
in moderate amts its probably good for you...
its part of our American culture, and every culture around us...
its inexpensive and readily available...
like a good cigar, its meant for celebration or relaxation....
so how one can compare the use of alcohol....even the abuse of alcohol...with the use of illegal, unnatural injections is "out there"..
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