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The Bar => Sports => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on January 11, 2014, 11:27:40 AM
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I'm surprised that this came out on a weekend. The full headline:
Alex Rodriguez gets SLAMMED! Arbitrator hits Yankees slugger with full-season ban, plus postseason
Fredric Horowitz’s decision endorses MLB’s accusations that A-Rod scored an array of performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered Miami-area anti-aging clinic operated by Anthony Bosch, and employed thug tactics in obstructing commissioner Bud Selig’s investigation into the biggest doping scandal in baseball history.
BY TERI THOMPSON, , MICHAEL O’KEEFFE , CHRISTIAN RED AND NATHANIEL VINTON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2014, 11:47 AM
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He’s out.
Alex Rodriguez, once Major League Baseball’s biggest star, was slammed Saturday with an historic drug suspension that encompasses all of the 2014 season, including the postseason, and will cost the Yankee third baseman $25 million in this year’s salary, plus millions in any performance incentives he would have earned.
The ban comes after a year of vicious attacks on Major League Baseball and the Yankees, public denials that he acquired massive amounts of performance-enhancing drugs from a seedy Miami dope den, and millions in legal bills from a team of high-profile lawyers, crisis managers and private investigators.
RELATED: A-ROD TIMELINE: FROM TOP PICK TO BIOGENESIS DOPE
Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz struck the 14-time All-Star and three-time Most Valuable Player with the 162-game suspension, plus the offseason, in an endorsement of MLB’s accusations that Rodriguez scored an array of PEDs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered Miami-area anti-aging clinic operated by Anthony Bosch, in clear violation of the game’s collectively bargained drug program.
Rodriguez announced the suspension -- the longest drug suspension in the history of the program -- Saturday morning in a long statement in which he denied having used performance-enhancing drugs in the period in question and calling the ruling an “injustice†and vowing to take the fight to federal court.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/breaking-a-rod-slammed-full-season-ban-postseason-article-1.1576281#ixzz2q70LMmaa
Can't wait to see what happens hext--do the Yankees try to void the rest of A-Roid's contract?
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I'm surprised that this came out on a weekend. The full headline:
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/breaking-a-rod-slammed-full-season-ban-postseason-article-1.1576281#ixzz2q70LMmaa
Can't wait to see what happens hext--do the Yankees try to void the rest of A-Roid's contract?
O-) O-) O-)
Good. Piss on him. IIRC, the Yankees have some sort of out on the contract. Can't remember exactly the details.
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I'm surprised that this came out on a weekend. The full headline:
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/breaking-a-rod-slammed-full-season-ban-postseason-article-1.1576281#ixzz2q70LMmaa
Can't wait to see what happens hext--do the Yankees try to void the rest of A-Roid's contract?
O-) O-) O-)
ESPN was discussing the possibility of buying it out. Good riddance and all that.
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ESPN was discussing the possibility of buying it out. Good riddance and all that.
Spark(y) up a theme song...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcgLaOF77eA[/youtube]
Side note...This song is the most popular theme song for tandem video soundtrack at my home drop zone.