Whether he realizes it or not, A-Rod is the Whitey Bulger of baseball, the most wanted criminal in the game?s history, more condemned by MLB authorities than Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox Eight in 1920, Pete Rose in 1989 or Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds in 2008.
Why do I say this?
Because in this, baseball?s requiem for the steroids plague that has tarnished the game?s integrity and made a mockery of the home run records, A-Rod has not only been one of the biggest cheats of all, but he is also believed to have sought to impede MLB?s investigation by helping to secure lawyers for some of the witnesses in the case.
...A-Rod is said to be resting that sore quad that prevented him from joining the Yankees in Texas this week, all the while painting himself as the victim in all of this to anyone who will listen. He wants everyone to believe that it is the Yankees who are going out of their way to keep him off the field, even though he was the one who brought up the quad issue last week.
But as the walls of baseball justice are closing in on him, he has to know there is nowhere to turn now, no one other than his lawyers and handlers to still stand by him. Among the rank-and-file major league players, other than maybe Robinson Cano, with whom he shares a mutual association with Jay-Z, he has zero supporters. For it is the players themselves who have forced this issue; told their leadership, executive director Michael Weiner and his lieutenants, they want a clean game and those who continue to try to beat the system punished and, when merited, punished severely.
...In any case, you can be sure Selig wants to rid baseball of him forever, just the way Kenesaw Mountain Landis ridded baseball of Shoeless Joe and the others forever, and Bart Giamatti did the same with Rose.
If I were A-Rod, instead of wasting time cultivating this ?victim? image, I?d be mimicking Adam Schiff, the craggy-faced New York district attorney in ?Law and Order? and start grousing at his lawyers to ?make a deal.?
That?s assuming Selig and his men are even open to one with someone they consider to be baseball?s Public Enemy No. 1.
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