ARod: Suspended; Appeals; and Returns.

The most boring and coincidentally the biggest story in the world today is that ARod got suspended for 211 games and is able to play while his appeal is heard.  He's able to play because Bud Selig is suspending him under the CBA's drug policy, rather then under the "best interests of baseball" codicil.

Look, ARod has no one to blame for this but himself.   He started believing his own press years ago and has taken extreme measures, and risks,  to live up to it.    That said, this outrage over PEDS in baseball is about 20 years late, and it's not really his fault that the wheel of hypocrisy keeps stopping on number 13.

In fact, I think Bud Selig is probably a far worse human being than Alex Rodriguez is.   Selig's elevation to league commissioner came only after he and the other owners threw out the relatively fair Faye Vincent nearly 20 years ago during the `94 stoppage.   Now, the reason why PED's didn't get cleared up back then was probably because Vincent was cast aside and baseball was booming once again on the excitement of `30s era baseball - powered by PEDS!     They lapped it up, and banked record gate receipts and TV deals.

But this seems personal between Selig and ARod.   I mean, David Ortiz failed the same original test ARod did, but nothing ever happens to him.   So why does Selig have it in for ARod?   I think it's because ARod broke the salary structure, first with his original Texas Ranger contract, then with his new Yankee contract.    ARod's deals sweetened everybody't deal, and that probably enraged a lot of old school owners and Bud is their bitch.   So I think Selig is interested in destroying him over the money he has cost the industry.   And I think he's interested in destroying him because he didn't lift any one of his corrupt, little fingers when PED use was far more widespread than it is today.  So I think, like the World Baseball Classic, he's looking to add "cleaned up baseball" to his phony-baloney "legacy."

I don't care if ARod ever plays another game, but if he's to go, I hope to heaven he takes Comrade Bud with with him.   He's been a bigger blot on baseball than all of the PED users combined.