OT: Arbitrator Slams ARod - full year suspension

[RockyMTblue2]

ARod knew he was cooked from the beginning. His walking out of the arbitration proceeding was his final big bluff move. Good. Like to think performance enhancing drugging is over, but there will always be another chemical to beat testing and guys who will go with it.

He is blustering about getting a reversal in federal court, but that is a very slim chance. At the very best he would end up with a right to a new arbitration process. Course he is a narcistic personality and I would be happy to see him spend more millions in this foolishness. Not as happy as his legal team, but happy.

 

[huskeynut]

GREAT. Can't wait to see him gone from the Yankees.

I know they won't, but I would hope the Yankees release him and let him scream and whine some more. It would make a statement about cheaters to the rest of the league and maybe other teams would follow.

 

[Icebear]

Too bad, I was hoping the Yankees would have to pay him this year.

 

[jdubct]

Too bad, I was hoping the Yankees would have to pay him this year.[/quo
I thought he had to be paid because his contract is guaranteed. Whether he plays this year will be up to the timing and outcome of his upcoming suit against mlb.

 

[Icebear]

Not according to the arbiters ruling.

 

[calpedaler]

Better yet The Yankees have to give it to a charity, like the Taylor Hooten Foundation, and ARod gets nothing.

 

[pap49cba]

I am so over these posers.... A Rod, Lance, etc., etc.

 

[Alydar]

Manny Ramirez, Ortiz...... all of them

 

[ThisJustIn]

could't happen to a nicer guy....

 

[pinotbear]

could't happen to a nicer guy....

yeah - I was hoping for the full 200+ games.

 

[pinotbear]

 

[DobbsRover2]

yeah - I was hoping for the full 200+ games.

Kind of wonder what Jeter was thinking afterward when he got to see the replays of the slap and how standing up for a teammate sometimes drags you into the muck.

News is saying that Yankees are free of the A-Rod payments for this year, I believe it's still three more years afterward that are left on the contract, so they still have a pretty hefty sword hanging over them. There's talk of a buy-out, but I'm not sure what A-Rod's incentive to do so would be unless there was a sure indication that another team was willing to pick him up while he can still swing a bat a wee bit in 2015. That could be a stretch though.

 

[hoophuskee]

Too bad, I was hoping the Yankees would have to pay him this year.

From MLB Netwrok last night they estimated Yanks will have to pay him about $3m this year.

 

[Scoe]

that was funny, if that were Arod on the receiving end of that its front page news and talked about 24/7 for 10 years.