[外電] 進擊的A-Rod

[Hiro2 (我不太看傻子來信的…XD)]

其實不是什麼新聞了

不過洋基板還沒PO上來 就po個原文給大家看看吧

新聞來源：


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/sports/baseball/rodriguez-sues-mlb-claiming-a-witch-hunt.html?ref=sports

Faced with baseball’s longest doping suspension, Alex Rodriguez sued Major
League Baseball late Thursday, accusing it of buying the cooperation of
Anthony Bosch, the head of an anti-aging clinic at the center of a doping
scandal, as part of a continuing “witch hunt” to force Rodriguez out of the
sport.

 In the complaint, Rodriguez’s lawyers claim one of baseball’s
investigators paid $150,000 in cash for records related to Rodriguez, which
were apparently stolen. A portion of the cash “was handed off in a bag at a
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area restaurant,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit specifically accuses M.L.B. of engaging in “tortious
interference,” essentially interfering with Rodriguez’s existing contracts
and future business relationships.

Baseball investigators “bullied and intimidated those individuals who
refused to cooperate with their witch hunt,” the lawsuit states. M.L.B., in
a statement Friday, said, “We vehemently deny the allegations in the
complaint.”

The suit, in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, came just days after Rodriguez
’s lawyers began appealing the 211-game ban issued by baseball. The appeal
is being conducted through a closed arbitration hearing at baseball’s
headquarters on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and it is unclear if the suit will
affect those proceedings, which ran all this week and will resume in
mid-October.

The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, does not address whether Rodriguez
used banned substances.

Nor was it the only suit that Rodriguez and his lawyers filed. On Friday
evening, Rodriguez lodged a second lawsuit, in State Supreme Court in the
Bronx, charging that the Yankees’ team physician, Dr. Chris Ahmad, and
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had been careless and negligent in the manner
in which they treated him for a hip ailment last October.

At the heart of the suit is the contention that a magnetic resonance imaging
test that Rodriguez underwent at the hospital revealed a small tear in his
left hip, but that neither the Yankees nor Ahmad immediately informed
Rodriguez about the finding and that he continued to participate, injured, in
the American League playoffs.

However, it is not clear if either Ahmad or the Yankees were initially aware
that the M.R.I. showed a tear in the left hip, since Rodriguez, when he went
to the hospital, was complaining of pain in his surgically repaired right
hip. The M.R.I. did not show a new tear in that hip.

Rodriguez ultimately had surgery on his left hip in January. Neither the
Yankees nor the hospital could immediately be reached for comment on the
lawsuit.

In between the filing of the two lawsuits on Thursday and Friday, Rodriguez,
38, said through a spokesman that his legal team was “doing what they need
to in order to vindicate me and pursue all of my rights.”

The two suits represent the latest twists in a public and increasingly
contentious battle that has pitted Rodriguez, the active leader in home runs
(654) and a three-time most valuable player, against baseball officials, as
well as the Yankees, his employer.

In August, a lawyer for Rodriguez, in an interview with The New York Times,
disparaged the tactics of baseball investigators working the Biogenesis case
and also claimed that the Yankees hid from Rodriguez the extent of his left
hip injury. The lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, repeated those claims in a number of
interviews, including one on NBC’s “Today.”

The Yankees and baseball officials have repeatedly rejected claims that they
have conspired to sideline Rodriguez and keep him from cashing in on the
final years of his $275 million contract.

Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, was named as a defendant in the suit
against M.L.B., but the Yankees, who owe Rodriguez $86 million after this
season, were not, nor were any of the team’s officers. Nor were the Yankees
named in the lawsuit against Ahmad and the hospital.

Among the allegations in the lawsuit against M.L.B. is that baseball paid a
total of $5 million in monthly installments to Bosch, a businessman who was
the head of the now-closed Biogenesis clinic in Coral Gables, Fla. The money
was meant “to buy his cooperation,” the lawsuit claims, citing “at least
one individual who claims to have knowledge of Mr. Bosch’s deal.” The
lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover
his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability stemming from the
case.

Joyce Fitzpatrick, a spokeswoman for Bosch, said Friday that Bosch had not
been paid by baseball for his cooperation. Robert Manfred, a senior baseball
executive, called the allegation “absolutely untrue,” saying, “Mr. Bosch
has not been paid.”

 Rodriguez’s lawyers also claimed that Dan Mullin, baseball’s senior vice
president for investigations, had “engaged in an inappropriate sexual
relationship with a witness whom he himself interviewed about the Biogenesis
matter.”

Manfred said Mullin “flatly denies those allegations.” He said that, as
with all allegations in the complaint, “we will do more investigation.”

For most of the year, both M.L.B. and Rodriguez have had teams of
investigators in Florida looking into Biogenesis, seeking to interview Bosch’
s associates and people with knowledge of the clinic.

In March, lawyers for the league filed a lawsuit of their own against the
clinic and people connected to it, also claiming “tortious interference”
 with the league’s business. Rodriguez’s lawyers called that suit, which is
pending in Miami, “a sham.”

Baseball’s investigation, widely seen as an unprecedented effort, resulted
in 13 players, including Ryan Braun, a former National League most valuable
player, accepting suspensions ranging from 50 to 65 games. Rodriguez was the
only player to appeal his ban.

In making its defense, Rodriguez’s team has interviewed a cast of people
linked to Bosch, including Bobby Miller, 41, who was recently released from
federal prison after serving well over a decade on various charges, including
firearms offenses.

In a phone interview, Miller said he became a confidant of Bosch’s over the
past 18 months, until the two had a falling out over $5,000 he said Bosch
owed him.

Miller said Bosch had told him that M.L.B. was paying him $5 million for his
cooperation. Miller also said Bosch had told him that Rodriguez was a client
of his. Miller said he did not think Bosch would lie: “He’s too smart to be
lying. There’s no way.”

The suit against M.L.B. was put together by lawyers from three firms: Reed
Smith; Tacopina Seigel & Turano; and Gordon & Rees. The medical lawsuit was
prepared by the firm Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik.

A spokesman for Rodriguez said Friday that Rodriguez “eagerly awaits the day
when all of this legal jostling is finished, and he can share his story with
the public and his supporters.”

心得：

如果A-Rod手中的證據屬實

那聯盟資方手中的資料可信度真的有很大的問題

看來這場官司還會拖蠻久的

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推 mightymouse :搞不好拖個幾年,禁賽也不用禁了
推 orion1991830:能撐到走完合約就可以直接退休了吧 反正名人堂不可能
→ mikeneko    :連A-rod這種二十年出一次的天才神童也進不了名人堂
→ mikeneko    :只因為聯盟自己當初藥物法規沒搞好 真的可以廢掉算了
推 ELF007      :可能不只20年........
推 pathfinder  :反正已經黑到發亮了，就來個魚死網破吧
推 devilsky    :年輕A-Rod那種等級 百年難得一遇啊...
→ azlbf       :巨砲SS 上一位是?
推 mightymouse :Ernie Banks吧
推 alex710707  :可是Ernie Banks生涯有一半以上場次守1B
→ alex710707  :Ripken比較算是SS砲 不過砲管跟A Rod這種百年一見的
→ alex710707  :還是差一大截
→ candy3333   :百年一見 還不是黑掉了 沒有用啊
推 Zamned      :如果沒有Ron Santo在三壘 Ernie Banks可能就去三壘了
推 alex710707  :黑規黑 討厭規討厭 但上面好像是在討論能力
推 alex710707  :可是就算Banks在3B 他待SS也是不超過生涯一半場次
推 Zamned      :Mr. Cubs在當兵的時候 A-Rod都在MLB打滾幾季了
→ Zamned      :Ernie Banks到30歲才因為當兵時受的舊傷轉到一壘去
推 yrt3168     :如果當初條子不要簽這麼大約
→ yrt3168     :在條子打到退休不知道會不會就沒吃藥了
→ yrt3168     :NYY的球衣真的是背負了更多壓力在阿
推 yahaha517   :樓上...阿肉早就承認他在來洋基之前有吃藥 = =
→ yahaha517   :所以這一切關洋基球衣屁事
推 NYYforever  :要明明就是在TEX時吃的= =
推 Zamned      :ARod在水手就開始吃也不意外  他只是選擇性承認
推 maxspeed150 :都有傳言說A-Rod高中就開始打藥了
推 gn00152097  :所以A-ROD每次都吃藥檢查不到的藥?
推 freeover    :其實名人堂也沒那麼重要~ BB爺進不了，但誰能懷疑他
→ freeover    :阿肉是黑了~ 但他是難見的棒球天才應該大多人都接受
→ freeover    :當然能力跟喜不喜歡是一回事，但他的黑被搞也佔很大
→ freeover    :成份，天之驕子容易被人眼紅，有污點就會被無限放大
→ freeover    :真希望他能打MLB臉!!!!
推 ELF007      :A-ROD高中的身材跟進職業的身材  說高中就有其實我
推 ELF007      :挺懷疑的
推 ZXCVBNMQAZ  :超愛A-rod的 T.T
推 sakingdom   :Arod要不要在休季的時候去客串一下Suits XD
推 Rodriguez   :A-Rod大概是百年一見的了.可惜不是終身SS
推 GoldenWasabi:所以A-ROD應該去開診所?都打那種驗不到的禁藥 =.=
推 GDBS        :那要去找Lance Armstrong合夥吧~
→ thisisnobody:高中就有錢吃藥 不太可能吧 為黑而黑的說法
推 richjf      :高中就吃藥 以為是台灣吃轉骨湯哦 = =b
推 KerryWood   :A ROD在游擊累積的成績就可以入選名人堂了吧
→ gordon27    :禁藥應該不便宜吧 高中就有錢吃嗎
→ YamagiN     :吃禁藥也只是讓訓練的恢復期變短 不是吃了就會變筋
→ YamagiN     :肉人或著爆發力強好幾倍這樣吧?
推 OoyaoO      :主要是傷身 如果無副作用可以讓訓練量變大 那幹嘛禁
→ YamagiN     :我不是說禁藥不該禁啦 是說光看身材判斷有沒吃禁藥
→ YamagiN     :滿不恰當的
推 alcard22    :身材只要有適當訓練量加上飲食的調整，可以變滿大
→ dp44        :他高中那時 禁藥也不算禁藥吧...
→ kusami      :如果高中瘦之後變壯就是吃禁藥那一般人也可類推= =
→ kusami      :進入職業時期開始重訓很正常不是...
推 waveflower  :吃藥變筋肉人聽起來好像大力水手吃波菜
→ drummer036  :http://ppt.cc/7Bie
推 richjf      :樓上到處亂推廣告文
推 ELF007      :drummer036 廣告連結 水桶30日
推 kawasayo    :年輕時候的阿肉 堪稱史上最強SS也無誤吧