A-Rod's Future (Bans, Injuries and Fraud)

[Thunder]

I wanna see Lackey drill him in his first AB tomorrow.

[Bellhorn04]

I wanna see Lackey drill him in his first AB tomorrow.

 

No point. Just let him f*** things up on his own.

[Thunder]

No point. Just let him f*** things up on his own.

 

Well if Lackey throws it at that hip, A-Rod could get hurt again.

[jacksonianmarch]

Well if Lackey throws it at that hip, A-Rod could get hurt again.

 

That'd be awesome

[jacksonianmarch]

Fraud ratted out his fellow players in order to try and save himself, even his current teammate Franky Cervelli. This is gonna be fun

[Northern Star]

Fraud ratted out his fellow players in order to try and save himself, even his current teammate Franky Cervelli. This is gonna be fun

 

I am not being biased here, but has there EVER been ANY player at any time in history who is a bigger bitch than A-Rod? Braun is working his way up there after getting caught cheating and ruining a guy's life in order to wriggle off the hook, but I can't think of anyone else even close to A-Rod.

[rjortiz]

I am not being biased here, but has there EVER been ANY player at any time in history who is a bigger bitch than A-Rod? Braun is working his way up there after getting caught cheating and ruining a guy's life in order to wriggle off the hook, but I can't think of anyone else even close to A-Rod.

 

Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. Bonds is up there too.

[Northern Star]

Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. Bonds is up there too.

 

I wouldn't call Ty Cobb a bitch. He wouldn't slap the ball out of a fielder's glove - he'd just spike them. He was more a mean son of a bitch if anything.

 

Rose has become an embarrassment to himself with his years of denial followed by his tell-all confession book. Pay you money to hear you confess to breaking baseball's cardinal rule? Nah. I hope he never gets into the Hall while he's alive.

[rjortiz]

I wouldn't call Ty Cobb a bitch. He wouldn't slap the ball out of a fielder's glove - he'd just spike them. He was more a mean son of a bitch if anything.

 

Rose has become an embarrassment to himself with his years of denial followed by his tell-all confession book. Pay you money to hear you confess to breaking baseball's cardinal rule? Nah. I hope he never gets into the Hall while he's alive.

 

Cobb was a sadistic racist prick who beat up a disabled person. Rodriguez might be a snitch, and a narcissist, but I doubt he'd stoop that low. As for Rose, I have zero doubt he gambled against his own team.

 

Speaking of "book writers," Jose Canseco has to be the ultimate bitch. Not only did he snitch on a bunch of players, but he's a total douche. I think he said something like he ran a 3.9 40 yard dash, which would be fastest recorded time ever. He also hit his wife. He's definitely worse than Rodriguez.

Edited August 16, 2013 by rjortiz

[Northern Star]

Cobb was a sadistic racist prick who beat up a disabled person. Rodriguez might be a snitch, and a narcissist, but I doubt he'd stoop that low. As for Rose, I have zero doubt he gambled against his own team.

 

Speaking of "book writers," Jose Canseco has to be the ultimate bitch. Not only did he snitch on a bunch of players, but he's a total douche. I think he said something like he ran a 3.9 40 yard dash, which would be fastest recorded time ever. He also hit his wife. He's definitely worse than Rodriguez.

 

 

I seem to remember someone (Emmz?) saying there is much more to the disabled spectator incident. I'm pretty sure the guy traveled to different cities just to heckle Cobb, for one thing.

 

Canseco snitched, but he was right, and I see his book as an important event in bringing the whole ugly truth to light. I don't doubt he's not a model citizen in other respects.

[rjortiz]

I seem to remember someone (Emmz?) saying there is much more to the disabled spectator incident. I'm pretty sure the guy traveled to different cities just to heckle Cobb, for one thing. Canseco snitched, but he was right, and I see his book as an important event in bringing the whole ugly truth to light. I don't doubt he's not a model citizen in other respects.

 

Haha, so what? I don't care if the guy called his sister a whore. The guy had no hands or legs.

 

I see what you mean about Canseco, although his motive was purely to profit off the revelations. I guess my point was that Rodriguez is a total douchebag, but he doesn't seem like a terrible person. I guess I'm not entirely sure by what you mean by biggest "bitch."

 

Speaking of douchebags, Rodriguez did out Ryan Braun, so that's a point to the good for him.

Edited August 16, 2013 by rjortiz

[Bellhorn04]

Haha, so what? I don't care if the guy called his sister a whore. The guy had no hands or legs.

 

I see what you mean about Canseco, although his motive was purely to profit off the revelations. I guess my point was that Rodriguez is a total douchebag, but he doesn't seem like a terrible person. I guess I'm not entirely sure by what you mean by biggest "bitch."

 

Speaking of douchebags, Rodriguez did out Ryan Braun, so that's a point to the good for him.

 

How much doucheness do you have to commit before you get to terrible person? Because A-Rod has to be close.

[rjortiz]

How much doucheness do you have to commit before you get to terrible person? Because A-Rod has to be close.

 

I think someone can be a douche, but not a terrible person. From what we know, he isn't a violent person, or has committed any violent crimes.

[Bellhorn04]

I think someone can be a douche, but not a terrible person. From what we know, he isn't a violent person, or has committed any violent crimes.

 

That's true, no violence. But I think liars, cheats and sleazeballs can achieve terrible person status if they really work at it.

[rjortiz]

That's true, no violence. But I think liars, cheats and sleazeballs can achieve terrible person status if they really work at it.

 

I guess that depends on your definition of what a terrible person is. If the worse thing he did was cheat at a game, and being a little too full of himself, then I can't condemn him.

[Bellhorn04]

I guess that depends on your definition of what a terrible person is. If the worse thing he did was cheat at a game, and being a little too full of himself, then I can't condemn him.

 

I understand where you're coming from. I'm certainly not saying he should be thrown in jail. If the world sees him as a douchebag for the ages from here on out, that should be sufficient.

[rjortiz]

I understand where you're coming from. I'm certainly not saying he should be thrown in jail. If the world sees him as a douchebag for the ages from here on out, that should be sufficient.

 

Agreed

[Youk Of The Nation]

Haha, so what? I don't care if the guy called his sister a whore. The guy had no hands or legs.

 

I see what you mean about Canseco, although his motive was purely to profit off the revelations. I guess my point was that Rodriguez is a total douchebag, but he doesn't seem like a terrible person. I guess I'm not entirely sure by what you mean by biggest "bitch."

 

Speaking of douchebags, Rodriguez did out Ryan Braun, so that's a point to the good for him.

 

The guy had both legs and one hand, minus a couple fingers. He had also been heckling Cobb all day despite Cobb's demands to the umpires to have the man removed. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do, but it was a different time in baseball where sometimes fights were settled with fists. A lot of people seem to have this image in their head of Cobb punching a quadruple amputee in the head over and over again, that is nowhere near what happened. Cobb was a mean son of a bitch sometimes, but he was honest about it. When he got in trouble for beating the s*** out of a heckler, he didn't try to take the heat off of himself by saying "so-and-so hit a guy last week, look, I have proof!". He was a bad man sometimes, but he was a man. A-Rod is a giant pussy in a Yankees uniform, and giving him a 'good point' for ratting out Braun and Cervelli to try to take a fraction of the media pressure off of himself is ridiculous. I can't believe he did it because he thought it was the right thing to do, he did it because he's a pathetic douche.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I would like to add, for the record, that I once dated a girl who only had one arm (the other was severed below the elbow in a car accident), and while I never got into any fights with her, I'm reasonably sure she could have thrown a decent punch with the arm she did have.

[Bellhorn04]

A-Rod's lawyers are publicly accusing the Yankees of malpractice and are accusing Bud Selig and the Yankees of conspiring to get A-Rod out of the game and the Yankees out of the contract. This has now gone into another dimension.

[Palodios]

A-Rod's lawyers are publicly accusing the Yankees of malpractice and are accusing Bud Selig and the Yankees of conspiring to get A-Rod out of the game and the Yankees out of the contract. This has now gone into another dimension.

 

In all fairness, that's exactly what they've been doing.

[Bellhorn04]

In all fairness, that's exactly what they've been doing.

 

I think we need to know the evidence MLB has against A-Rod before we can judge whether it's a vendetta by Selig or not.

[Bellhorn04]

A-Rod lawyer blasts Yankees; team prez wants Galea medical records released

 

By KEN DAVIDOFF

Last Updated: 6:33 AM, August 18, 2013

Posted: 12:56 AM, August 18, 2013

Yankees Blog

 

BOSTON — Alex Rodriguez promised Friday “a very, very bumpy road” ahead. The Yankees’ beleaguered third baseman has delivered quickly and explosively.

 

Joseph Tacopina, the latest addition to A-Rod’s ever-changing legal team, publicly lashed out at the Yankees and Major League Baseball in an interview with The New York Times published online yesterday, accusing both of improprieties in an effort to run Rodriguez and his bulky contract out of baseball.

 

“We have basically had enough,” Tacopina told the newspaper. “The process is being perverted when they act the way they do to make their case. They are pushing Alex to his limit.”

 

Tacopina unleashed a stream of allegations against Rodriguez’s employer and league, putting a name to thoughts that had been privately circulating around A-Rod’s circle for months. The primary charges involved the Yankees’ treatment of Rodriguez’s left hip injury that required surgical repair in January and MLB investigators’ conduct in compiling the information for the 211-game suspension he is appealing.

 

“The legacy of George Steinbrenner would be horrified,” Tacopina added. “This is the New York Yankees. This isn’t some thug-culture club.”

 

Yankees president Randy Levine, the primary recipient of Tacopina’s blasts, responded with a noteworthy challenge for A-Rod to disclose the truth about his performance-enhancing drug use and connection to Anthony Galea. The Canadian sports doctor treated Rodriguez in 2009, which became known to the Yankees only after Galea got into trouble with law-enforcement officials. Galea pleaded guilty last year to bringing unapproved drugs, including illegal performance enhancers, into the United States.

 

Following the Yankees’ 6-1 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Rodriguez worked hard to dance around questions about Tacopina’s comments.

 

“I’m going to defer to my lawyer to go about these matters,” Rodriguez said.

 

Asked if he had anything to hide, he said, “No.”

 

In a telephone interview yesterday, Levine said, “Alex is trying to distract from the only relevant question in this matter: Did he or did he not use PEDs?”

 

Tacopina claimed that, after the Yankees’ purposely didn’t tell A-Rod about the severity of his injury last October — “They rolled him out there like an invalid and made him look like he was finished as a ballplayer” — Levine told Bryan Kelly, who performed Rodriguez’s surgery, “I don’t ever want to see him on the field again.”

 

Through an attorney, Kelly didn’t confirm that Levine made such a remark. Levine said many other people, representing both the Yankees and Rodriguez, were on the calls with Kelly, and that the Yankees would gladly release their transcripts and notes with Rodriguez’s permission.

 

“Alex had the finest standard of care,” Levine said. “All of the choices were left to him. He directs his own medical care. All he has to do is tell us we are free to release his medical records, and everyone can take a look and see.’’

 

Then Levine leveled his challenge, continuing: “The one disturbing hole we have is, we don’t have the information on his treatments by Dr. Galea. It’s now incumbent that he tell everybody what went on with Dr. Galea.”

 

E-mails between Levine and Rodriguez would reflect poorly on Levine, Tacopina said, calling the communications “very damaging.” Levine countered the e-mails would show his support of A-Rod throughout the years.

 

Asked to describe his current relationship with Levine, Rodriguez said, “It’s business as usual for me. I have a job to do, and that’s to go out and play third base and do the best I can, and I’m doing that right now.”

 

Rodriguez did seemingly clarify that he didn’t fault manager Joe Girardi for anything that has gone down.

 

“I love Joe,” Rodriguez said. “Joe and I have an amazing relationship. I have the utmost respect for Joe. That’s unwavered.” Moments earlier, Girardi said, “I don’t ever want to ruin a player’s career. … That would break my heart.”

 

Tacopina also questioned the legitimacy of MLB’s investigation, which led to the suspension of 13 other players, including Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun (65 games) and Yankees teammate Cervelli (50 games), all of whom accepted without appeal. The attorney said that Anthony Bosch, the founder of Biogenesis (the now-shuttered anti-aging clinic in South Florida) who has become MLB’s star witness, “has no credibility.”

 

“We are confident in the credibility of our witnesses, and we will show this at the hearing,” MLB vice president of economics and league affairs Rob Manfred said, referring to the upcoming appeal hearing in front of independent arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. “We don’t feel the need to discuss this in the newspaper.”

 

The conduct of MLB’s Department of Investigations has come into question, and Tacopina opened that wound, as well, describing the investigators’ tactics as “rife with misconduct.” In particular, Tacopina said, investigators threatened witnesses and flashed what looked like police badges to enter gated communities.

 

“We are completely comfortable with the tactics used to investigate the illegal activities by Alex Rodriguez and others,” Manfred said. “It’s ironic that Mr. Rodriguez’s people are complaining about the conduct of others.”

[Bellhorn04]

Gotta love the cojones of A-Rod's new lawyer saying Bosch 'has no credibility' when all the other players accepted their suspensions without appeal.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

"They are pushing Alex to his limit.”

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[a700hitter]

Ortiz chides Dempster for hitting A-Rod

 

August 22, 2013 01:16 PM

 

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff

 

David Ortiz disapproved of teammate Ryan Dempster hitting Alex Rodriguez last Sunday night at Fenway Park.

 

"I didn't like it. I don't think it was the right thing to do,'' Ortiz told USA Today. "But we don't all think alike, and the guy who did it, Dempster, is a great guy. It's not that I didn't think it was right because Alex and I are friends, because once you cross the white lines, everyone's on their own.

 

"But we've got Tampa right on our heels, and that pitch woke up a monster in the Yankees' team at that moment. You saw how the game ended up. CC [sabathia] was throwing 91 [m.p.h.] and started throwing 96. Alex later hit one way out there.

 

"You're talking about a good team that you can't wake up. But we learn from our mistakes.''

I am glad that Ortiz was publicly critical of Dempster's idiotic selfish move.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Dora spelled backwards is A-Rod

 

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Can you say esteroides? Esteroides!

[Emmz]

I know what I'm calling A-Rod from now on.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Dora spelled backwards is A-Rod

 

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Can you say esteroides? Esteroides!

 

I don't know what's funnier. The picture, or the fact that it looks less ridiculous than his actual face.

[Brennan]

a-roid has definitely helped expose the average yankee fan for the bandwagon whores they are. First night back with the eyes of the world on him a few of them pretended to have some credibility and boo him. After a few games and a few hits they now cheer for him like pre-pubescent girls at a Justin Bieber concert. And all for naught, soon the yankee caps will be back under the beds and a-rod will become as irrelevant as bonds, clemens and the like.