ARod could Face Suspension for PED's

[BRobinsonfan]

According to USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/01/29/alex-rodriguez-south-florida-drugs-clinic-suspension/1874225/

[OFFNY]

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Thanks for the info, Brooks.

[isestrex]

Now the Yankees are trying to void the rest of his contract.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8894904/new-york-yankees-attempting-voide-alex-rodriguez-contract-according-sources

I'm on my knees praying that this doesn't happen.<a href="http://s1106.photobucket.com/albums/h367/isestrex/Emoticons/?action=view&current=eusa_pray.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h367/isestrex/Emoticons/eusa_pray.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[Moose Milligan]

Now the Yankees are trying to void the rest of his contract.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8894904/new-york-yankees-attempting-voide-alex-rodriguez-contract-according-sources

I'm on my knees praying that this doesn't happen.<a href="http://s1106.photobucket.com/albums/h367/isestrex/Emoticons/?action=view&current=eusa_pray.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h367/isestrex/Emoticons/eusa_pray.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Either way this is a good thing. Yanks can't void the contract and they're stuck with him. Yanks void the contract and A-Rod is disgraced (more than he already is).

I'd certainly prefer to see the Yankees stuck with him, but seeing A-Rod with egg all over his face again would be awesome.

[Blizzard1090]

I'm hoping it does happen. As great as it would to see the Yanks stuck with him,the new CBA has certainly curtailed their spending a lot,this year and for the future IMO (lol at Tex's contract going foward.)

But as a baseball fan who has watched the game suffer under the PED/Steroid cloud for the past 20 years,a message needs to be sent,and voiding the contract of the biggest fraud in the game right now is a start.

[ShoelesJoe]

The Yankees are between a rock a hard place here. If they don't void ARod's contract they could be flushing $100 million down a hole. If they do void the contract it could poison the organization to future big time free agents who'd steer clear of a team that appears to look for excuses not to pay their players if they become unproductive. And w/o big time free agents regularly coming to NY the Yankees will turn into the AL East version of the Pirates or the Royals in no time.

[isestrex]

Either way this is a good thing. Yanks can't void the contract and they're stuck with him. Yanks void the contract and A-Rod is disgraced (more than he already is).

I'd certainly prefer to see the Yankees stuck with him, but seeing A-Rod with egg all over his face again would be awesome.

Seeing A-Rod AND the Yankees with egg on their face would be awesome. If the contract is voided, you only get to see one of those things.

[SeaBird]

The worst thing that can happen to A-Rod is a suspension. And even that is unlikely because hand scribbled notes in a ledger are not proof that he held or used illegal substances. He has not tested positive on any tests. Read up on the new The Joint Drug Agreement and you'll see that it does not allow for voiding a contract as discipline for PED use.

[SeaBird]

Now the Yankees are trying to void the rest of his contract.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8894904/new-york-yankees-attempting-voide-alex-rodriguez-contract-according-sources

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It won't happen. From the article you cite:

According to two baseball sources -- one of whom is familiar with the wording of Rodriguez's contract -- even if it is proved that Rodriguez received PEDs and HGH from Bosch, the Yankees would not be able to impose a punishment greater than the mandatory 50-game suspension stipulated for a first-time offender by baseball's collectively bargained Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

[Dipper9]

Nothing will make me happier than to see ARod never play another game, AND the Yankees pay him every last cent of that stupid contract!

BUT...this is the Yankees, so we'll probably see ARod win MVP of the World Series this year!

[BRobinsonfan]

According to a new article this morning "Rodriguez appears 16 times in the documents New Times received, the paper said, either as ''Alex Rodriguez,'' ''Alex Rod'' or the nickname ''Cacique,'' a pre-Columbian Caribbean chief."

ARod is mounting a vigorous defense: ''The news report about a purported relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Anthony Bosch are not true,'' Rodriguez said in a statement issued by a publicist. ''He was not Mr. Bosch's patient, he was never treated by him and he was never advised by him. The purported documents referenced in the story - at least as they relate to Alex Rodriguez - are not legitimate.'' http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rod-implicated-ped-again-mlb-083556043--mlb.html

Interesting to note that Rodriguez is already expected to be sidelined for the first half of next season. If he does draw a 50 game suspension - can that be served on the DL or would it only go into effect after he comes off the DL?

[SeaBird]

He would serve his suspension while on the DL. He will not be paid for the suspension. So it could cost him 1/3 of his pay for the year. That's about $8.6M for 50 games.

[ledzepp8]

It doesn't seem fair to me that someone who is suspended can serve that suspension while they are already not playing because of being on the DL. They aren't being suspended from anything.

[backwardsk]

It doesn't seem fair to me that someone who is suspended can serve that suspension while they are already not playing because of being on the DL. They aren't being suspended from anything.

They are suspended from their paycheck. MLB should drag their feet and announce his suspension mid-summer. They won't, but they should.

[BillySmith]

More about ARod and the details of the PED use with Bosch:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20130204/alex-rodriguez-ped-regiment-anthony-bosch-miami-new-times/index.html