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A Rod and Braun are shameless scum. Sounds like A Rod is about to get permabanned.

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Report: A-Rod could be banned for life if he turns down MLB’s Biogenesis settlement offer

The latest report from the New York Daily News' A-Rod Watch 2013 says the embattled Yankees third baseman has two options in his stand-off with MLB: Take a deal that would suspend him for the rest of 2013 and all of 2014, or face a lifetime ban.

It's another indication that Rodriguez — simultaneously at odds with the New York Yankees about his injury rehab and with MLB about the Biogenesis scandal — is unlikely to play this season. He's supposed to begin a second round of minor-league rehab this week, but reports indicate that MLB's impending suspension hammer would strike down upon him before that. The Daily News says MLB "hopes to know by Monday" whether A-Rod will take the deal. The resulting suspension or ban should follow pretty quickly.

It might sound like Bud Selig & Co. have A-Rod backed into a corner — the same corner Ryan Braun was in last week, only darker — but the Daily News quotes an A-Rod source as saying the 38-year-old with the $275 million contract isn't copping a plea, even if there's a pot of gold at the end.

A source close to Rodriguez said the player was sticking to his story that he has done nothing wrong and was unwilling to cut a deal.

“If there is a suspension,” the source said, “he will fight it.”

According to a source familiar with the discussions between MLB officials and A-Rod’s representatives, if Rodriguez accepted a settlement that would call for him to be suspended for the rest of this year and the entire 2014 season without pay, he would still have a chance to collect the $60 million the Yankees would owe him from 2015 to 2017.

MLB's case against A-Rod is believed to be strong, with phone records, text messages and e-mails that can link him to PED use between 2010-2012. MLB is also believed to have Rodriguez on the hook for meddling in the Biogenesis investigation. It sounds like enough that someone would be A-Rod's ear telling him to take the deal, to save whatever money and bits of his reputation he can.

If he doesn't, you have to wonder: Does A-Rod still think he's untouchable? Is he just that stubborn? Or does he have that much confidence in his legal team?
 

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LOL at baseball pretending to care about players and cheating. MLB is a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
 

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Never have so many Yankee fans been rooting for one of their own to be suspended.
 

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LOL at baseball pretending to care about players and cheating. MLB is a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

I don't see how you can claim that when they're going after these guys so hard... And not just any players, but superstars.

Personally I hope these guys get nailed to the wall. I just don't see why the union fights it so hard. They should want the game cleaned up as much as anyone. But their knee-jerk reaction is to fight baseball on anything and everything.
 

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LOL at baseball pretending to care about players and cheating. MLB is a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

better late than never. had they done nothing, you'd be screaming at them for looking the other way.
 

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If baseball bans Arod for Life and the Yankees can get out of that contract, that would be a huge win for NY.

Yanks have an incredible amount of shitty contracts on the books.

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You can probably even add Jeter to this list

That's just off the top of my head.

That team is fucked. For a few years at the very least.
 

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If baseball bans Arod for Life and the Yankees can get out of that contract, that would be a huge win for NY.

Yanks have an incredible amount of shitty contracts on the books.

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You can probably even add Jeter to this list

That's just off the top of my head.

That team is fucked. For a few years at the very least.

Granderson Free agent after this year
 

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And Jeter only has one more year left. If he's healthy, he's worth it.
 

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better late than never. had they done nothing, you'd be screaming at them for looking the other way.

The NFL allows massive amounts of cheating and I have not said a word about it. I still enjoy the game. I just wish someone would dole out some of that magic elixir to my Royals. The Royals single season record for home runs is a measly 36 and that was set way back in 1985. I would love to see Hosmer hit 70 home runs.

Correct me if I am wrong, but none of the guys tested positive, this was discovered through an investigation of the clinic, right?
 

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Braun tested positive last year but got off on a bullshit technicality. A-Rod tested positive many years ago, and admitted he was a steroid user in a sitdown interview with Peter Gammons in 2009 .
 
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Braun tested positive last year but got off on a bullshit technicality. A-Rod tested positive many years ago, and admitted he was a steroid user in a sitdown interview with Peter Gammons in 2009 .
Bartolo Colon and Melky Cabrera also tested positive and they are a part of this. They've already been suspended for what allegedly occurred during this time though, so they may avoid another suspension.
 
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