Madden gets his pound of flesh.

"Through all this disgrace, A-Rod sounds as if he still thinks he controls his destiny in baseball.

Well, here’s a bulletin for him: He controls nothing."


Maybe you can lend him some of your incontinence medication, you miserable old turd.


"It was not surprising, given his narcissistic, delusional nature, that A-Rod’s immediate response to the record drug suspension baseball arbitrator Fredric Horowitz levied on him Saturday was defiance. The deck was stacked against him from Day 1, the arbitrator was biased, Major League Baseball was corrupt in the manner in which it made its case against him, the Yankees and Randy Levine conspired with MLB to get his contract voided and, by golly, he is going to court to get exonerated for all of this."

Let's go through it:

Deck was stacked; arbitrator was not biased; MLB was corrupt; Yankees and MLB did not conspire, but they Yankees are happy that MLB did their dirty work for them.

So ARod is correct in 2 out of 4 of his complaints summarized herein.


He is guilty of taking steroids. That should be 50 - 100 games, like everyone else. (Yes, he foolishly turned down a shorter banishment, but that was before Bosch came forward. When hit with 211 or threatened with a lifetime ban, I'd imagine the cost-benefit analysis shifts.)

He is guilty of being a narcissist. Not a crime. Zero games.

Hie is guilty of being delusional. Not a crime. Zero games.

In fact, many of the ballplayers who Madden happily covers are guilty of at least one of these things, if not all three.


While Madden briefly mentioned the idea that ARod ratted out other players, that is a worse crime than anything mentioned above. It may be true, it may not be true, it's kind of hard to tell. Lots of leaks.

Some rumors indicated that ARod was co-owner of Biogeneis or got a finder's fee.  If so, that's not just a suspension, that's prison.

But here's what gets me the most. Boschs' reliability is questionable for sure, but Bosch suggested on "60 Minutes" that ARod threatened Bosch's life. I have not seen one columnist recoil in horror at this suggestion (though I briefly heard Stephen A. Smith on the radio). Again, that's prison.

I truly wonder if Bill Madden thinks that narcissism is a worse crime than, you know ... Crime crimes.


So we got the evidence, MLB's case is strong enough for an arbitrator. A criminal court would have probably tossed all of it, but this isn't a criminal court.

But unless we have evidence that ARod worked for Bosch or threatened Bosch, then I still don't understand why he should get more than 50-100, like everyone else.

If there is evidence that ARod committed those crimes, then call the cops and get him out of here. It's out of MLB's purview at that point