MLB Has to Fix The A-Rod Situation

Aug 21, 2013

I’ve bitten my tongue on this Alex Rodriguez situation for a little while now but things are starting to get ridiculous. This man is supposed to be sitting out the next two hundred and eleven games with a drug related suspension. Instead he decides to activate some stupid appeal rule (which Major League Baseball should definitely get rid of) and has been on the field for a few weeks now.

It’s so annoying to see him out there because of how big he is to baseball. A-Rod is a distraction; he’s arguably the biggest name in baseball right now so he’s treated as such. Whenever there’s a story about the New York Yankees you should already assume that Rodriguez is right in the middle, but when is this going to stop? When is this circus act sideshow named “A-Roid” going to die down?

I think I would have been ok with Alex Rodriguez playing through the appeal if he wasn’t such a big figure, but since he is, people are coming for him. The fact that Ryan Dempster of the Boston Red Sox is currently serving an suspension for intentionally hitting A-Rod is too much. I don’t care that he actually hit him, this happens all the time; it’s a part of the game. I just think it’s pretty wack that you get suspended for hitting someone with the ball that has no business on the field anyway.

This appeal process is going to get messy. We are going to see way more of A-Rod pretty soon. I bet the Yankees will even somehow do some damage in the postseason. More players will probably get suspended for doing stuff to A-Rod, and A-Rod probably will get away from his suspension. Baseball is doing its best to get the roids off the field but it almost means nothing if we can’t get Rodriguez off the field until all of this is over.