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Arod has filed suit against MLB. His appeal must not be going very well.

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In reading the lawsuit, Arod is going to drag everyone down with him, including the press, other players, officials in MLB. I dont see how any deal with MLB can be reached now in lowering his suspension, he makes too many accusations. Some of what he says could be true, but the issue is did he or didnt he use PEDS. MLB feels he did.

He has opened Pandora's box. The Feds yesterday asked the State of Florida to stand down with thier investigation. The FEDS are all over a mufti state PEDS distribution network involving professional athletes. IMO because Arod has filed this it, MLB will now have standing to getting the Galea Federal testimony by MLB players and court records unsealed. Bad move on Arods part filing this law suit. MLB has been after the sworn testimony of multiple players involved in the Gaela case. MLB has been in Buffalo Federal court recently attempting to get that testimony and I'm sure they will be back shortly.

The first MLB player of dozens that will be receiving Subpoenas was served by the FEDS. Also the State of Florida announced last week they are ramping up thier own investigation and will be issuing their own subpoenas also. The Feds yesterday asked the State of Florida to stand down with thier investigation.

The FEDS are after the suppliers and other dealers throughout over 20 different cities. They are slowly but surely establishing the supply network and in cases like this, it will be the buyers, users and thier surrogates who will provide the key testimony, most by subpoena. It's also begin whispered that eventually all the evidence will be turned over to major sports associations too and no one should doubt for one minute MLB has not been cooperating.

The state investigation that was started in Florida is already being watched by other states and the focus of those will be addressing PEDS use in kids under 18 as well as state health law violations and licensing issues. "A subpoena was issued for documents and we are looking into several areas of state interest," said Ed Griffith, spokesman for State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.

Griffith would not go into further specifics but said the state probe into Biogenesis of America and its former chief, Anthony Bosch, differed from a federal grand jury investigation into the clinic. The federal probe involves the sources of drugs the clinics are accused of selling to players, most notably one-time MVP Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers and longtime star Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees as well as numerous other MLB players and athletes.

MLB last week dismissed its portion of its Biogenesis lawsuit against Juan Carlos Nunez (the Aces Agency employee) in return for his full cooperation with MLB investigators. He is expected to provide numerous details on dozens of other MLB players not yet named, some dating back 5 years. There is speculation ACES may start cooperating with what they know now also. Nunez may know of 50 or more MLB players.

Take a look at the cheaters favorite PED supplier arriving at MLB HQ to testify in Arods appeal. Amazing how some people can clean up.

If a couple dozen more guys get 50-games to start the year, the 2014 fantasy drafts will be absolutely fascinating in terms of strategy.

MLB will remove this to federal court and easily get this dismissed. There won't ever be any discovery. This is a non-event.

I can't believe I am actually defending AROD but how does MLB justify a 200+ game suspension? If they have the evidence to substantiate the huge difference between his penalty and other penalties, then provide it. If they gave him the same penalty as the others then he would likely have accepted it. Maybe I am missing something but he may have a pretty good case that MLB has singled him out. I am not saying he is innocent and I am not a fan of AROD, at all. I am just trying to figure it out. He is obviously guilty but how do you justify his penalty compared to the others? It's not in the CBA and they can't use the previous positive test against him, or can they?

They have Arod using the last 4 years, more than any other player and he also told other players how to use and how to get the stuff. His suspension reflects the nature of his involvement, as I said for sometime, IMO he should have gotten a lifetime ban, but that did not happen. If Arods lawsuit does'nt get settled it will languish in Federal court for probably 2 years. Arods lawsuit is aimed at getting his 214 games reduced to something like 65-80 games. MLB will not bite IMO, they are going to let it play out and let everything come out. Believe me, MLB wants the Galea players too and this Arod lawsuit will allow them to get that information, not jsut on Arod but the othe rplayers involved with that. Gaela has been singing about it all for 18 months already.

Arod has played right into MLB's hands, they need a non positive test suspension that was grieved and upheld for others that may be coming down. MLB welcomed Arod being the only idiot who did'nt accept his suspension. This whole PEDs thing, no matter what people think is lot bigger than just MLB players and Biogenesis, folks will see.

Just read the complaint. Wow, nuclear is right. Although I am not surprised he'd take a few shots at Selig, those portions were particularly antagonistic. ARod can hire all the lawyers he wants, I can't see this ending well for him. Sure hope all of MLB's evidence against ARod comes out. I'm so sick of this guy.

Mike

ARod is suing me for booing him at a baseball game.
Slander for saying he sucks. Pain and suffering for his hurt feelings in being boo'ed.
He's suing Joe Girardi for pinch hitting for him. Pain and cruelty.
His mission is to hire more lawyers than fans that boo'ed him.
Soon, he'll be hiring lawyers that also boo'ed him.
He'll sue them as well.
Johnny Cash would resurrect his song if alive.
ARod truly has become, 'A Boy Named Sue'.

The Galea Grand Jury testimony could implicate approx. 10 MLB players, (some have speculated that in the court records they could show close to 25 MLB having purchase Peds, but not all of them testified) The question is will MLB act? MLB has tried 3 different times in the past 2 years to unseal those records. The biggest names of course are Arod, Beltran and Reyes. The players may have denied to MLB they didnt use PEDS from Galea, but that is is exaclty what the Feds convicted Galea and his woman partner of, Distribution of PEDS throughout the Unitd States to individual athletes in thier homes and team hotels as well as other clinincs throughout the US.

It's obvious ARod chose not perjure himself, airgo his attorneys trying to keep the records sealed.


BUFFALO — A platoon of attorneys representing Alex Rodriguez appeared in Buffalo federal court on Tuesday to persuade U.S. District Court Judge Richard Arcara to keep the embattled superstar’s grand jury testimony and other records from the Anthony Galea case under seal.

Lawyers representing Major League Baseball, who filed the motion to unseal the grand jury testimony involving the Toronto sports medicine doctor in September, presented their case before Arcara, as did lawyers from the Justice Department, who asked the judge to close the proceedings to the press and the public.

Mark Mahoney, Galea’s Buffalo attorney, also attended the hearing.

Arcara did not rule on the motion to unseal the testimony and other documents MLB believes contain information about possible performance-enhancing drug use by Rodriguez.

The Canadian growth hormone guru pleaded guilty in 2011 to bringing HGH and other unapproved drugs into the U.S. from Canada. It was reported during an investigation by Canadian and U.S. authorities that Galea had treated several high-profile athletes, including Rodriguez, Tiger Woods, Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran. All of the players — and Galea — have denied that the doctor’s treatment of them included PEDs.

MLB based its argument to unseal in part on the theory that a congressional committee looking into baseball’s drug program in 2005 instructed commissioner Bud Selig to rid the game of steroids, and that testimony by players could go directly to the issue of how the program was violated.

If the records are unsealed, it is unclear if MLB officials can use them as evidence to justify Rodriguez’s 211-game suspension when his arbitration resumes on Wednesday at baseball's Park Avenue offices. If it is shown, however, that Rodriguez lied to MLB officials when he told them during interviews in 2009 that he had not received banned drugs from Galea, that evidence could be entered in the arbitration proceeding.

“They were told to do everything possible to rid the game of performance-enhancing drugs,” said one person who has followed the Galea case of MLB’s argument to unseal. “Well, they’ve tried to do that. And because the feds brought in Galea and players as witnesses, baseball believes the information in the Galea case is directly related to the players’ conduct and how it affects the drug policy.”

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