01-17-2014, 08:37 AM
There is compelling circumstantial evidence which supports A-Rod's suspension and justifies further investigation of Rodriguez, IMO.
Like Lance Armstrong, Rodriguez and his doctors may well simply have a protocol for administering the performance-enhancing drugs, a protocol which enabled Rodriguez to dope and still show clean on the MLB tests. It’s all in the timing and dosages and knowing the likely time frame during which a test could be administered (as Bosch outlined).
The fact that none of A-Rod’s tests have come back positive for doping doesn’t mean that there is no evidence against him. The testimony of his doctor, the timing and contents of the doctor’s visits and messages with A-Rod, the fact that he refuses to testify because he might incriminate himself…there's probably more that we don't know about. Circumstantial evidence - what most cases are based upon.
Why would a doctor who will no longer be able to attract high-dollar athlete clients lie? What does the USADA have to gain by falsely pursuing Rodriguez? Why won’t A-Rod testify and instead chooses to exert his right not to incriminate himself by taking the 5th, if he has nothing to hide? Why would the baseball commissioner and an unbiased legal arbitrator, one with a record of fairness and open-mindedness in hearing thousands of labor disputes, want to bring such negative attention to the sport by creating false claims of doping against Rodriguez?
At the end of the day, I don’t think Rodriguez using the media only to present his side and suing everyone and their brother is gonna do anything but hurt him. IMO, that deflection is not working in his favor now, and it will hurt him more when he again refuses to testify about doping under oath in legal cases that he's initiated.
This isn’t going to end up with A-Rod in the “unfairly persecuted victim of conspiracy” role. I think he’s going down the Lance Armstrong path and he will be proven to be a major doper and an ego-driven liar who's been enabled for years by a network of "yes" men. JMO.
Like Lance Armstrong, Rodriguez and his doctors may well simply have a protocol for administering the performance-enhancing drugs, a protocol which enabled Rodriguez to dope and still show clean on the MLB tests. It’s all in the timing and dosages and knowing the likely time frame during which a test could be administered (as Bosch outlined).
The fact that none of A-Rod’s tests have come back positive for doping doesn’t mean that there is no evidence against him. The testimony of his doctor, the timing and contents of the doctor’s visits and messages with A-Rod, the fact that he refuses to testify because he might incriminate himself…there's probably more that we don't know about. Circumstantial evidence - what most cases are based upon.
Why would a doctor who will no longer be able to attract high-dollar athlete clients lie? What does the USADA have to gain by falsely pursuing Rodriguez? Why won’t A-Rod testify and instead chooses to exert his right not to incriminate himself by taking the 5th, if he has nothing to hide? Why would the baseball commissioner and an unbiased legal arbitrator, one with a record of fairness and open-mindedness in hearing thousands of labor disputes, want to bring such negative attention to the sport by creating false claims of doping against Rodriguez?
At the end of the day, I don’t think Rodriguez using the media only to present his side and suing everyone and their brother is gonna do anything but hurt him. IMO, that deflection is not working in his favor now, and it will hurt him more when he again refuses to testify about doping under oath in legal cases that he's initiated.
This isn’t going to end up with A-Rod in the “unfairly persecuted victim of conspiracy” role. I think he’s going down the Lance Armstrong path and he will be proven to be a major doper and an ego-driven liar who's been enabled for years by a network of "yes" men. JMO.