Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Alex Rodriguez's Lawsuits Lead to the Want of His Banishment

     Earlier in the week, Major League Baseball's Players expressed their want of Alex Rodriguez's expulsion from the union. Following Rodriguez's lawsuit against the union, the lawyers of the union said that it is not allowed. They gave a statement saying they wanted to give Rodriguez his fair share of support as a paying member of the union. Myself and many others believe this was the wrong decision.
     Rodriguez has been about himself his entire career. He announced his free agency during the 2007 World Series even though Major League Baseball has an unwritten rule that no announcements regarding the MLB will take place during the World Series in order to give the Series the only attention at the time. He has filed many lawsuits against the MLB and other organizations and people regarding his suspension and has spoken out many times about how he did not do steroids when many others have given evidence saying he has. Rodriguez so far is the only player to create such a story about steroids. Although he is not the only one that has taken his case to court, he is the only player that has created such public attention towards himself. Because of this, he gets his bad self-image and others do not want to support him.
     During an interview with the TV show "60 Minutes" Rodriguez's supplier Anthony Bosch made statements that he supplied Rodriguez and later said he "was in fear of his life" when Rodriguez's associates told him they would kill him in order to prevent him from speaking out about the topic (read the full thing here). To me this is a serious problem.
     Why should the Player's association, full of players that do not want to support him, give him their support just because he is a paying member. This man has made the whole thing about him, almost as if it is the league against him trying to destroy him, all because of a 211 game suspension. Rodriguez doesn't deserve the support from the league due to his actions. If it were up to me, he would get a greater suspension and Major League Baseball should try to ban him for life. The League deserves better than a player sending death threats and suing his employer. Rodriguez has been paid 311 million dollars to date. Why does he need more for his lawsuit? The Player's association should make him go to court alone, along with revoking his allegiance with the union.
     Am I the only one who thinks this way about Rodriguez? Leave comments or ideas if you agree or disagree!

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