Alex Rodriguez Judgement Day!
The 3rd baseman for the New York Yankees – Alex Rodriguez who also played shortstop for the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners. Is currently being pushed to take a plea deal agreement or suffer a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball.
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Why you ask?
In December 2007, Rodriguez and the Yankees agreed to a 10-year, $275 million contract. This contract was the richest contract in baseball history (breaking his previous record of $252 million). In February 2009, after previously denying use of performance-enhancing drugs, including during a 2007 interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes, Rodriguez admitted to using steroids, saying he used them from 2001 to 2003 when playing for the Texas Rangers due to “an enormous amount of pressure” to perform.
Rodriguez is currently a major subject of the 2013 Biogenesis scandal and is currently involved in plea deal negotiations with the MLB. A report emerged on July 31, 2013, that the MLB will impose a lifetime ban on Rodriguez if he does not agree to a settlement.
ᔥAlex_Rodriguez via wikipedia.org
Alex Rodriguez is facing a lifetime ban! Do you think he should be banned from MLB?
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Compelling Evidence Against A-Rod!
The league reportedly has “compelling evidence” against Rodriguez, including proof that he suggested the Biogenesis clinic to other players who were thinking about using performance-enhancing drugs. That, combined with Rodriguez’s own history of PED use and his alleged attempt at obtaining and destroying evidence, gives the league fuel to seek a severe penalty against him, despite the fact that Rodriguez is technically a first-time offender.
ᔥReport: Alex Rodriguez to receive lifetime ban without agreement …
Can they really give Alex Rodriguez a lifetime ban?
Orza told me that the lifetime-ban rumor is purely a negotiating tactic: “Baseball knows it can’t ban Alex for life.” The labor contract language that would presumably empower it — the specific clause says that players can be disciplined for “conduct that is materially detrimental or materially prejudicial to the best interests of baseball” — was designed to prevent players from betting on games. If the provision applied to other situations, why wasn’t it invoked during one of baseball’s previous scandals — the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, for example? Also, at the insistence of the union, Selig signs a letter attached to the labor contract every year assuring players that he won’t invoke it. So that’s that.
ᔥCan Baseball Actually Ban Alex Rodriguez? – Deadspin
Being excommunicated with the game means you share a destiny with the Shuffler, Giants pitcher Phil Douglas, a hapless alcoholic who got drunk and wrote a letter to Cardinals outfielder Les Mann saying he was willing to tank a game. Mann, knowing what happened to Weaver when he kept guilty knowledge to himself, turned Douglas in. You are of the same ilk as Hal Chase and Heinie Zimmerman, never officially banned but not welcome either. Chase was the first real star of the New York Highlanders/Yankees, a slick-fielding first baseman who could hit a little, but he died alone, unloved, impoverished and malnourished because he not only tried to sell every game in which he played, he did his best to corrupt others as well. Zimmerman, holder of the 1912 NL batting title, spent the initial phase of his post-baseball existence deeply involved with the gangster Dutch Schultz, the kind of guy who would chastise a foe short of murder by rubbing syphilis-infected bandages in his eyes. It’s a classy crowd.
Alex Rodriguez has a $300 Million career that he’s about to lose, what’s to be next?
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ᔥAlex Rodriguez: Lifetime ban or not, he’s already dead – SBNation.com
So it looks either way, whatever form of punishment he accepts, doesn’t really matter in the end. Because now he’s been labelled as such and his creditability is all but gone. That means no more high priced salary, or fancy sponsors. Slowly but surely it will all start to go downhill from here, no that he is labelled as criminal for doing so many wrong doings. Even if it is his 1st offense, it doesn’t really matter, just look at how many offense’s he has for just his 1st. I definitely believe his career will not be the same again. What do you think? Does his career stand a chance, even after he accepts which ever punishment comes his way? Comment below to let us know what you think?
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