He won't be banned from the game forever.

"Is anyone surprised that in addition to being a cheater, a liar and a narcissist, Alex Rodriguez also reportedly is a snitch?

By any measure, that's hitting for the cycle in baseball's Steroids Era."

Only one of those things is against the rules.

I don't know what to make of MLB's leaks. CBS News is reliable ... more reliable than TMZ ... but CBS News is not always reliable, of course.


But to answer your question, no, I'm not really surprised.  If he is stupid and childish and unintelligent enough to do something as self-defeating as this, I'm not really surprised.  He certainly doesn't have the moral authority to call out other players and I don't know why his position is enhanced by leaking these documents.  Especially since the names were going to be revealed soon enough.



"If the '60 Minutes' reporting is accurate, A-Rod not only violated baseball's collective bargaining agreement, he also alienated the last segment of our population that could possibly be on his side: the players' union.

According to the CBA, any allegations of PED use are to be handled privately before a player's name is made public. If A-Rod and/or his associates gave MLB investigators documents including Braun's and Cervelli's names, that would be a direct violation of the CBA. All of a sudden, it looks as if MLB knew exactly what it was doing when it threw the book at Rodriguez in the form of that massive 211-game suspension."

Jeez, listen to yourself.

If you're seriously going to take a stand against leaking in and of itself, then MLB should be on Death Row.

If MLB was playing it straight according to the CBA, there is no "all along" and you have no column and you have no idea ARod's suspension is 211 games.  Because the player's identity is supposed to be kept secret while his case is under appeal.


"We can only hope. After all, what self-respecting union would ever support a guy who ratted out two other members of the union, especially when the snitch is the ring leader of the whole operation? A-Rod is eight years older than Braun and nearly 11 years older than Cervelli, and already admitted to doping from 2001-2003, when Braun and Cervelli were still in school."

ARod is guilty of being eight years older than Braun and nearly eleven years older than Cervelli.

So he's guilty of lying (which isn't a crime), narcissism (which isn't a crime), leaking (which is a crime only in the sense that it gives crummy columnists something to write about), and now he's guilty of being older than other people.


Which brings us back to the same place we always end up.

If ARod is guilty of taking illegal PEDs, then punish him for taking illegal PEDs. 

This nonsense about being a "ring leader" for other grown men is enough to make me puke. 

The idea that he "obstructed" an investigation by a private entity (who paid for their own snitch) is an impossibility.  ARod has as much rights to those documents as MLB does.  In his attempts to fight MLB's investigation, he can lie, cheat, and bribe Tony Bosch.  He can also invoke the Fifth Amendment ... except there is no reason to invoke the Fifth Amendment since he isn't under oath ... since MLB has no subpoena power.


You know what is not a crime in America?  You know what is not a violation of MLB's CBA?  Being unlikeable.


"The good news about this news is that it focuses us even more on just how awful it is that A-Rod continues to play when he should be suspended, as his Biogenesis brethren were. To see A-Rod in pinstripes, pretending as if everything is normal, is worse than watching Barry Bonds' tainted march to the career home run record."

You can watch CSI reruns if you prefer.


"By playing, A-Rod continues to harm whatever legacy he has left. Let's hope that soon, he is kicked out of the game forever, putting him out of his misery, and us out of ours."

ARod has no legacy and therefore nothing to lose by playing baseball.

He is also not going to get kicked out of the game forever.  211 games at most.  So that may translate into an effective lifetime ban, but the people who keep saying that seem to be wrong about everything.


If you're so miserable writing about ARod, then write about something else.

USA Today has five-star Sudokus on Fridays.  That can occupy your time if watching narcissistic baseball players bothers you so much.