The head of the Major League Baseball Players Union and
former New York Yankees player Tony Clark (2004) has no beef with Yankees third
baseman and DH Alex Rodriguez after his 162 game steroid suspension in 2014.
This is news because during the suspension and appeal process that followed
Alex filed, and later dropped, lawsuits against his own union, Major League
Baseball and the team physician for the Yankees.
This has to be encouraging if you’re in the Alex Rodriguez
camp when you hear rumors about the team refusing to pay home run milestone
bonuses that were written into his contract. That is sure to be a legal fight
that without the Union’s backing would be disastrous in Rodriguez’s favor.
Clark was quoted as saying:
“There were challenges throughout," Clark said Sunday after
his annual spring training meeting with Yankees' players. "Everybody has
come out the other side. He's part of the fraternity. The guys I have spoken
to, a lot of guys have moved forward. The commentary I've heard this spring has
been very positive."
"The opportunity to see him back out on the field, I'm
happy for him," Clark said. "Seeing him in the shape he's in, I'm
happy for him. It was a difficult stretch. I'm glad to see him back on the
field."
Alex screwed up just like hundreds have before him and sure
he took the immature and wrong route with it, no one can or will deny that, but
it’s in the past. History is history. Let’s just play some damn baseball.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)