#a-roid

[davidwrightismylife]

How the heck did he do it last year? I mean, two hip surgeries, his 40th birthday and basically two years of inactivity and A-Rod was great for three-quarters of the season. My mom taught me a long time ago, if it is too good to be true, it usually is. That said, maybe A-Rod was doing things on the up and up -- but at this point, it would be naive not to at least wonder if he still had some extra help.

Andrew Marchand, ESPN Senior Sports Writer

[americasgotballs]

With the Alex Rodriguez suspension announced the Yankees have no luxury tax barriers stopping them from signing Tanaka

Yesterday afternoon, an arbitrator decided Alex Rodriguez's suspension would be reduced from 211 games to an even full season. As a result, the $25m Rodriguez was owed stays in the Yankees pockets. Additionally, the AAV (average annual value) of A-Rod's contract of $27.5m no longer counts against the luxury task threshold for the Yanks. Before the arbitrators decision the Yanks payroll stood at about $176 million. Now, A-Rod's AAV will be officially off the books for the 2014 season, allowing the Yankees to sign Tanaka and avoid the luxury tax for at least this year.

Rodriguez saw his suspension reduced from 211 games to an even full season.

The Yankees were an obvious front runner for Tanaka regardless of how the A-Rod situation played out, but now they are even more primed to go all out to sign Tanaka. Yesterday a source reported the Cubs, another front runner from Tanaka, were willing to commit nine figures to the Japanese star. The Yankees are now in perfect position to do the same. Now its a matter of where the former Rakuten star would prefer to play. Tanaka went 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA last season for the Rakuten Golden Eagles.

[townienews]

He's not the impact bat or perennial best player on any given field that he used to be...but then again non-stop, rampant PED use, and the hands of time, will do that to a person. But that he gets to play baseball when the league has piles and mountains and loads and bales and bundles and dumpsters and cabinets of evidence against him in the Biogenesis case is beyond infuriating and embarrassing, for baseball and its fans (yes, Yankees fans included). It's just stupid. "Due Process", "Right of Appeal". Please! We all know. Everybody knows. That he cheated. That he lied. That he's an assclown of epic proportions. But when we learn today that he rolled on Ryan Braun and his own teammate, Francisco Cervelli (who I'm no fan of, that home plate clapping prickface), giving MLB info on them and their PED use so as to possibly save his own chapped ass skin? Wow. We're in a brand-new stratosphere of PoS-dom. But nothing with this pan-fried penisbrain surprises me at this point. Nothing. Not that Lackey is anything short of a piehole himself, but I totally understand why he has an on-field problem with A-Rod playing. And I totally hope he plunks Dismay-Rod, leading to a Saturday afternoon A-Roid vs The Red Sox Catcher Brawl 2.0. Get ready, Salty. Should be a humdinger! Enjoy your beer at the stadium tonight, folks. That's all you'll get, because all the boos should be hurled at the field. Wonder how creative the Fenway folks will get tonight? Remmeber when A-Rod had the Canadian affair with the blonde bodybuilder, and then Sox fans wore blonde girl masks to the game? That was a hit pile of awesome. GO SOX! Winning the game would be great because it's a pennant race, and these are the rival Yanks in town, nipping at the heels of the Wild Card. But winning so that this crudstorm doesn't get the satisfaction of victory again at Fenway before finally getting suspended would be double-great.

[fear-n-trembling]

My nerves are not as raw as others in my family, but when I hear a PED using baseball player say "I'm fighting for my life", I'd like to drag him by the ear to meet my 12 y/o nephew (with non-Hodgkins lymphoma) who actually is.

P.A.

[nygiantsrock]

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