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A-Rod Lifetime Ban from Baseball?
bigoutside
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Looks like that's where they are heading...
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig may be preparing to knock A-Rod out of the park. Selig may also just be using the threat of a lifetime ban to force the New York Yankees' third baseman to the bargaining table.
Citing two unnamed sources with knowledge of the negotiations, Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports reported on Wednesday that Selig was prepared to hit Alex Rodriguez with a lifetime suspension as well as suspend eight other players on either Thursday or Friday.
The 38-year-old could avoid a lifetime ban if he were willing to accept a lengthy suspension without appeal, The Associated Press subsequently reported. Citing someone with knowledge of the discussions, Ronald Blum of The AP indicated that MLB arbitrator Fredric Horowitz could also potentially shorten any lifetime ban levied against Rodriguez and that it even remained unclear if Selig would actually issue such a historic punishment.
Any suspension for Rodriguez would cap weeks of media reports indicating that the three-time AL MVP was among the players who would be suspended by MLB for connections to anti-aging clinic Biogenesis. The shuttered clinic in Miami and its founder, Anthony Bosch, are at the center of MLB's latest scandal involving performance-enhancing drugs. In January 2013, the Miami New Times published documents purportedly chronicling the use of performance-enhancing drugs -- including human growth hormone and anabolic steroids -- by several prominent MLB players, including Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun was the first player disciplined by MLB following its investigation into the clinic and Bosch.
Although Rodriguez's camp initially denied any connection to Biogenesis or Bosch, his name appeared 16 times in the records obtained by the Miami New Times. Shortly after Braun's suspension on July 22, Wallace Matthews of ESPN New York reported that "sources familiar with the investigation" said the evidence connecting A-Rod to Biogenesis is "far beyond" what the league had against the Brewers' slugger. Milwaukee had 65 games remaining on its regular-season schedule when Braun was sidelined for the remainder of the 2013 season
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/mlb-alex-rodriguez-lifetime-ban-threat_n_3685403.html
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig may be preparing to knock A-Rod out of the park. Selig may also just be using the threat of a lifetime ban to force the New York Yankees' third baseman to the bargaining table.
Citing two unnamed sources with knowledge of the negotiations, Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports reported on Wednesday that Selig was prepared to hit Alex Rodriguez with a lifetime suspension as well as suspend eight other players on either Thursday or Friday.
The 38-year-old could avoid a lifetime ban if he were willing to accept a lengthy suspension without appeal, The Associated Press subsequently reported. Citing someone with knowledge of the discussions, Ronald Blum of The AP indicated that MLB arbitrator Fredric Horowitz could also potentially shorten any lifetime ban levied against Rodriguez and that it even remained unclear if Selig would actually issue such a historic punishment.
Any suspension for Rodriguez would cap weeks of media reports indicating that the three-time AL MVP was among the players who would be suspended by MLB for connections to anti-aging clinic Biogenesis. The shuttered clinic in Miami and its founder, Anthony Bosch, are at the center of MLB's latest scandal involving performance-enhancing drugs. In January 2013, the Miami New Times published documents purportedly chronicling the use of performance-enhancing drugs -- including human growth hormone and anabolic steroids -- by several prominent MLB players, including Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun was the first player disciplined by MLB following its investigation into the clinic and Bosch.
Although Rodriguez's camp initially denied any connection to Biogenesis or Bosch, his name appeared 16 times in the records obtained by the Miami New Times. Shortly after Braun's suspension on July 22, Wallace Matthews of ESPN New York reported that "sources familiar with the investigation" said the evidence connecting A-Rod to Biogenesis is "far beyond" what the league had against the Brewers' slugger. Milwaukee had 65 games remaining on its regular-season schedule when Braun was sidelined for the remainder of the 2013 season
more
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/mlb-alex-rodriguez-lifetime-ban-threat_n_3685403.html
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I do not watch pro sports at my house, unless you count NASCAR.
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PS: It's all fake anyway just like wrestling.
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Don't tell Select Fire wrestling is fake.
He still thinks NASCAR is real.
I think they should have to eat 10 hot dogs and drink a 12-pack before every game,like the BAMBINO!![8D]
Their knees and hips just don't work right anymore.
And MLB pitchers can't use their throwing arm for playing tennis with their grandkids if they were slinging smoke during their playing years.
Just a thought...
Since they have already compromised their health, screw it.
Let 'em juice all they want.
quote:Originally posted by us55840
PS: It's all fake anyway just like wrestling.
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Don't tell Select Fire wrestling is fake.
He still thinks NASCAR is real.
[:D][:D]
Lance Armstrong, greatest bicycle rider in history.
Alexander Rodriguez, five years ago was the greatest baseball player in the game.
All of 'em a bunch of cheaters. Took all the dope they could, and lied about it. And lied, and lied and lied.
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