This guy is so close to Joe Torre, that he nominated Torre for the ALS ice bucket challenge.

"It should no longer even be in dispute that the Yankees should do everything in their power, and explore every possible legal option — with the full support of Major League Baseball — to make sure Alex Rodriguez never wears their uniform again.

This doesn’t just speak to their obvious and own financial interests, and the more than $61-plus million for which they could eventually be on the hook for with a guy like Rodriguez. It speaks to their brand. The recent Yankee past is littered with guys who turned up dirty on baseball drugs. But there is nobody close to Rodriguez."

I totally disagree that there is nobody close to Rodriguez.

If the Yankees are seriously upset about steroid use, then give back all the tainted rings and take Torre's plaque out of the Hall of Fame.

For starters.


Then, donate about $500 million to anti-steroid campaigns, fire Cashman for negotiating contracts with known steroid users, and challenge all other teams to rid themselves of anyone associated with steroids, past or present.

Is that a strong enough message for you? Is that too much of a scorched earth policy?

Or just do the easy Selig strategy. Blame it all on ARod.


"You will hear once again about the sanctity of the guaranteed contract in baseball. One of these days somebody ought to challenge that notion, now that it turns out that Rodriguez sold out the Yankees in the interest of getting paid — the only thing that has ever mattered to him, truly — and mounted these various and fraudulent legal challenges during which he sold out just everybody with whom he came into contact, starting with Cousin Yuri Sucart."

It's not the sanctity of guaranteed contracts in baseball ... it's the sanctity of contracts and guarantees in the United States.

They already challenged ARod's contract and partially won.

They already got back around $27 million, or whatever it was.


"Whenever somebody like Rodriguez gets caught like this, we hear about how this is a world of second chances. It is. But you have to say Rodriguez already had a pretty good second chance, after he first copped to steroids five years ago at a press conference in Tampa. That was the first time he came around panhandling to the public and Yankee fans and his own teammates, looking for a second chance, and redemption, you bet.

A year later, almost as if he were still in the shadows of the Canyon of Heroes after leading the Yankees to the 2009 World Series, Rodriguez went straight to Tony Bosch for drugs. That is the only issue that matters with Rodriguez. It’s not about the coverage, it’s not about baseball’s prosecution of him and defense of its policy, it’s not even about all those who thought investigative reporting on Rodriguez — when he was in the barrel — involved taking phone calls from his lawyers and his flacks."

Yeah, he's a dick.


"Now we hear he is on the road to redemption, as if that day with the DEA was supposed to be something as inspiring as St. Paul’s epiphany on the road to Damascus, instead of him being just another perp trying to save his sorry self."

I haven't seen anyone claim he's on the road to redemption.

I think Lupica "hears" a lot of things in his head, imaginary arguments with the opposition.


"Only now the Yankees are just supposed to take him back because of a contract. But if honoring its terms meant nothing to Alex Rodriguez, why should it mean anything to them? They’d have the high ground with Rodriguez. But then, ask yourself a question: Who doesn’t at this point?"

You can honor the contract by cutting him or maybe by sending him to the minors (though he may be out of options, whatever those are).

The team that welcomed back Jason Giambi has the moral high ground over nobody.

That's why a lot of us fans don't really care.

Baseball is not the place we turn to for moral guidance. If we did, then MLB and the Yankees have already let us down thousands of times while they take the money and run.

I think ARod may end up as a high-priced platoon at third base with Chase Headley. That's embarrassing enough. That's more embarrassing than the steroids revelations. That's probably the worst punishment he can receive for his crimes -- a slow descent into irrelevance.