I want to talk about a baseball player named Melky Cabrera.

He used to be on youtube, shirtless in a hotel room, eating peanuts with a porn star.

He is on youtube eating something off his bat.

He created an infantile fake website to throw investigators off his trail.

He failed a PED test and was suspended 50 games.

After the suspension, the Blue Jays signed him to a $16 million contract.

He is batting .280 with 2 HRs so far this season.

Lots of players come back from suspensions. Also, lots of players are stupid. So, while Lupica can scarcely contain his glee at another chance to bury ARod, there is no reason to think ARod's career is over:

"But if he does confirm everybody’s worst suspicions about A-Rod, confirms that A-Rod was not just trolling for a way to make himself what he used to be but actually getting drugs from a two-bit scammer like Bosch — Biogenesis Bosch! — then he would be suspended for a long time; suspended for being a user all over again and lying to baseball about that. His career would be over. Nobody comes back from that."

Why not?


"A-Rod would have to fight to get the rest of his money from the Yankees."

Contract Law is on his side.


"And maybe, if he ever recovers from his latest hip surgery, he would become the kind of novelty act in Taiwan that Manny Ramirez has become."

He's expected to recover in July or August.

He'd likely be more productive than Brignac, Adams, and maybe even Youkilis.

 
"No wonder all these big guys from the Yankees have suddenly been liberated to talk about how 'disappointed' they are in him. They act as if they all knew that Bosch was in the chute this way."

Yes, they knew Bosch was ... ummm .. they knew Bosch was "in the chute."



"Or maybe he was doing some form of baseball drugs from the time he was a kid — was never the golden-boy, natural talent, home-run-king-in-waiting that we thought he was when he was a kid with the Seattle Mariners."

I agree, maybe ARod has been on steroids all along and his entire career is a fraud.

Which is why I can similarly speculate that the careers of Piazza, Pedro, Big Papi, and hundreds of others are fraudulent.

Which is why proof is so important.

Which is why ARod won't get suspended 100 games.

Which is why the Yankees won't be able to get out of his contract.

Which is why everyone is supposed to be equal under the Law.

Which is why a person's popularity with Mike Lupica is not a legal determinant of innocence or guilt.