A-Rod Follows Lance Armstrong and Takes the Easy Way Out
A couple of months ago we gave Yankees slugger/celebrity boyfriend/yacht enthusiast Alex Rodriguez some totally unsolicited advice about the best way to deal with the steroid controversy threatening to ruin his already soiled career.
Now we have to wonder whether A-Rod even read our little blog post, because we’ve seen a glimpse of his role model and it looks a whole lot like pre-Oprah Lance Armstrong.
He decided to turn the tables on his accusers by filing suit against both Major League Baseball for “slandering” him with a world-record 211 game suspension and his team’s physician for “misdiagnosing” a hip injury in an attempt to prevent him from playing.
That’s a devilishly brilliant and completely unbelievable scheme right there.
Remember another star athlete who just loved to sue people? Rodriguez confirmed that he’s using Lance’s unpublished “Whine Your Way Out of Trouble” handbook as a guide by calling the MLB investigation a “witch hunt” created to...
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