Career over? Still doesn't make sense to me.

The information seem so out of bounds, that I think Bill Madden is being duped by source who are anti-ARod:

"According to the sources, a 150-game suspension might be the best that could be expected for Rodriguez, who is rehabbing from hip surgery with high Single-A Tampa and was chastised by the Yankees Saturday for failing to report to the team’s complex for Friday night’s game following a four-and-a-half hour meeting with MLB officials who outlined their case against him."

So ARod is going to cut a deal to avoid onerous punishment ... and that plea deal results in a 150-game suspension, by far the biggest suspension MLB has ever handed out to any of its hundreds of PED users.

The math seems off.

"His 20-day rehab assignment ends on July 22, and it is unclear where A-Rod will go after that, but according to a source, Yankee officials sent him a notification Saturday telling him that he is obligated to inform them in advance of any absence. Rodriguez also declined to accept an assignment to Buffalo, where the Yankees wanted him to join their Triple-A team, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, saying he was having a problem with his quad muscle. Rodriguez played in Saturday night’s game in Tampa, however."

I mean, look, if he is seriously begging out of a AAA assignment because of a phony problem with his quad muscle, then maybe he really is a week away from the Albert Belle cop out.

“ 'I can see a scenario where if they’ve got multiple offenses (against A-Rod) that rather than going for his career with an arbitrator, baseball might settle on something like 150 games,” said one of the sources.

...

'The bottom line is (MLB) wants these guys out of the game,' said one of the baseball sources. 'In (A-Rod’s) case, 150 games would sufficiently accomplish that.' "

Assuming these sources are accurate, it still doesn't explain Selig's particular animus towards ARod.  That alone should be rejected by an arbitrator.

If MLB wants these cheaters out of the game, a lot of MLB's current rosters would be gutted.