Tag: a-rod

It’s so good to have A-Rod back in our lives…

Of course, A-Rod shaves his legs. Of course, he does.

Interesting point from Buck:

> Getting Rodriguez’s $25 million salary off their 2014 books would effectively reset a Yankees payroll projected to exceed a $189 million luxury tax threshold the club hoped to slip under. And if they’re freed from the $86 million owed Rodriguez from 2014 to ’17? Showalter fears Commissioner Bud Selig’s zeal to ban Rodriguez might turn the Yankees into free agent predators again.

I would hope it does not work that way.

This should be really interesting, especially with the rumors that [A-Rod will get a lifetime ban if he does not settle with MLB](http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/31/source-if-a-rod-doesnt-settle-with-mlb-he-will-be-given-a-lifetime-suspension/) and that [Selig is ready to ban A-Rod from playing, even during his appeals process](http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/30/report-bud-selig-is-prepared-to-tear-up-the-drug-agreement-just-to-get-a-rod-out-of-baseball/). It looks like a good chunk of A-Rod’s money is going to be headed to lawyers really soon.

Of course he is.

So great.

> So in the wake of all this, you would think that players would be asking themselves, finally: Is it worth it? Are the rewards for cheating really worth the gamble that some day, they could wake up and find out they’d just become Manny or A-Rod, a walking PED punch line whose entire career had been instantly discredited?

> Well, sadly, here’s the truth: None of this will do it. None of this will stop some of these dopes from trying to cheat. Not in baseball or any other sport.

> …

> So somewhere along the line, the price these men must pay for this crime has to grow large enough to force them to feel the pain. Two-month suspensions alone aren’t enough. In-season blood tests aren’t enough. Even public humiliation isn’t enough.

> And it won’t be enough until the suspensions grow longer and the penalties grow stiffer — because, clearly, the thought of losing 50 games worth of pay isn’t scaring the people who need scaring.

Mr. Stark will not be the last one to make such a plea.

Well, at least we know why he did so well in the 2009 playoffs.

Such a classy guy.