I just don’t get it!  Alex Rodriguez signed a contract for $275 million to play baseball – the highest contract ever offered.  Instead of investing some of that fortune in himself by hiring fitness coaches, nutritionists, psychologists and others that would enable him to stay at the top of his game, A-Rod chose to buy performance enhancing drugs and lie about them to all of his fans and fans of baseball.  Like Lance Armstrong, A-Rod took the arrogant attitude that ‘zero tolerance’ won’t touch me… and it didn’t - until now. Like Lance, it is indisputable that A-Rod took drugs, and like Lance it is indisputable that A-Rod has been lying about it from Day 1.

Meanwhile, because he thinks so much of himself, A-Rod has determined that he still wants to be role model!  My, my… As I understand it, role models have integrity, put the team and game ahead of themselves and are all things that wholesome healthy kids aspire to be… Don’t see any of Alex Rodriguez in that definition… 

So here he is trying to defend his trashed reputation ("Because if I don't no one will!") while he appeals the 211 game ban that he received from Major League Baseball (MLB) for using drugs and being a liar. The fact that he is allowed to play at all is criminal!  If MLB really wanted to send a message to sport fans around the world, it would have suspended A-Rod immediately WHILE the appeal goes on; paying him lost wages should, in the unlikely event, he is found innocent.  But they didn't, which is as telling as the fact that MLB is now defending A-Rod from the likes of pitchers who - on behalf of their teams (make no mistake about it!) - take on the vigilante role beaning him with ‘bean-balls’ to register fellow baseball player disgust in the matter. 

IF the guy had stepped up, apologized, and taken it on the chin I could be more respectful and accept that we are all human, and subject to screwing up one time or another; BUT he didn't.

Now A-Rod wants us all to feel sorry for him and support him in his Quixotic quest to have his 211 game suspension lifted or shortened –neither of which should happen. In my view, the sooner A-Rod gets off the field and serves his suspension like the rest of the cheaters that were caught in the same net, the happier and better off everyone - excluding the liar - will be.