Someone, anyone – please throw A-Rod out of baseball

NEW JERSEY, USA – I look at Alex Rodriguez and see a narcissistic jock who thinks he is bigger than the game of baseball he says he loves.

This would be the second time he is caught using steroids and my take from everything he has done is that the only thing he wants to make sure of is that he gets paid the remaining US$100 million the New York Yankees owe him on his contract.

His brief press conference before playing his first game of 2013 in Chicago sounded more like the testimony of a low-level Mafioso than the highest paid player in baseball.

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In his press conference, Rodriguez was asked point blank if he took steroids.

“We’ll have a forum to discuss all of that,” Rodriguez parried, giving baseball’s version of pleading the 5th (the right in the US Constitution against self-incrimination). It’s a yes or no question, no matter what the lawyers say.

Rodriguez stonewalled all the variations of questions on steroids. I mean the answer is either “no” or various lawyer-like statements that in effect means yes.

Why is he fighting so hard against the 211 game suspension imposed by Major League Baseball, which accused A-Rod of violating the league’s steroid policy, if he did not do it? Throughout his press conference, Rodriguez never denied the charges against him. He came off sounding like a weasel trying to worm his way out of a trap. Problem is, the harder he fights the more he sinks in a mess of his own making.

This is the same A-Rod flaunting the bimbos hanging on his elbow, humiliating his wife and setting one hell of an example for his two daughters.

After baseball put in drug testing, the guy has the unmitigated gall to continue cheating. Rodriguez claims he used steroids only when he was with the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003 and never used the stuff when he joined the Yankees.

The records of the guy who gave him the drugs showed he was juicing back in 2009. Now that he is back in the game, you have to wonder if he is still using steroids to come back from hip surgery.

Rodriguez declared he is “thrilled” to put on the Yankee uniform and said the past 7 months have been a “nightmare.” I bet putting on the uniform is giving the Yankee officials nightmares.

Honorable thing

I felt nauseous listening to him. I felt sorry for the game of baseball, a sport that is still the national pastime of Americans.

My unscientific gut or instinct? I think he’s lying.

The man cannot answer a simple, straight question if he used steroids. Baseball officials accused him of lying on the drug use and obstructing their investigation by trying to buy documents so he can destroy the evidence. Hewing and hawing does not cut it.

I look at A-Rod and see a selfish, self-absorbed jock who is taking a job away from another player who is clean but less skilled than No. 13 on the Yankees.

I wish the Yankees would do the honorable thing. Buy out the contract of A-Rod and release him. Let’s see if any other team will sign a player as dirty and dishonorable as Rodriguez.

Will they take a financial hit by walking away from the contract? Yes. But it will show that the Yankees stand for something other than winning.

It will show that when it comes to steroid use and doing things the right way where you do not spit on the heritage of the game, there is no room in the New York Yankee universe for Alex Rodriguez.

A-Rod does not belong in the same room as Lou Gehrig or Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle or Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera or Derek Jeter.

The least the Yankees can do is take one for baseball and throw A-Rod out of the game. – Rappler.com