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According to a Yahoo! Sports report, union members wanted to expell Alex Rodriguez from the Players Association after he sued the organization.
Alex Rodriguez “needs to be scared” of returning to baseball after his doping ban, according to a Yahoo! Sports report describing the wrath big leaguers feel towards the lawsuit-happy Yankee outcast, and he should be booted out of the Players Association.
“When he gets up to bat, you can hit him and hit him hard,” one player told the website, saying Rodriguez’s recent lawsuit against the players’ union was an action against all Major League Baseball players.
“He sued us,” the unnamed player said . “Jhonny Peralta and Nelson Cruz screwed up. You know what? They owned up to it. They took their medicine. (Rodriguez) needs to be scared of coming back and facing people he sued. If he can’t fear the wrath of getting kicked out or not being included, he’s going to be forced out.”
The comment came in an article published Tuesday describing a 90-minute conference call the Major League Baseball Players Association staged on Jan. 13 with players. That was the day Rodriguez sued the union as well as the league.
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Alex Rodriguez sues MLB and the Players Association after his suspension of 162 games plus the playoffs is upheld by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz.
According to the article, player representatives on the call “overwhelmingly agreed” that Rodriguez should be kicked out of the union.
As many as 40 players and board members participated, according to Yahoo! Sports, and none of them spoke in A-Rod’s defense, continuing to demand Rodriguez’s expulsion from the union even after being told that such a move was impossible.
One player familiar with the call confirmed the report to the Daily News.
“What brought it beyond disappointment was the fact he’s suing the union,” said a player the article said was in union leadership . “Guys understand people make bad decisions, they lie when they’re embarrassed or trying to avoid punishment. Those are human qualities. Guys understand. But what made guys incensed is he would bring a suit against the union.”
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Alex Rodriguez has drawn the ire of his fellow union members after suing the Players Association.
“We do not comment on conversations between players and MLBPA staff,” union spokesman Greg Bouris told the News. A spokesman for Rodriguez did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A Rodriguez spokesman also declined comment on the report.
Rodriguez has spent the last six months directing a lavishly-funded campaign to use every legal remedy to save his career from a season-long suspension. On Jan. 11 an arbitrator issued a 162-game ban based on Rodriguez’s links to Biogenesis, the Miami-area anti-aging clinic that was allegedly a source of doping products.
The union represented Rodriguez in hotly contested arbitration hearings that took place last fall at MLB’s headquarters on Park Avenue, though Rodriguez hired an additional army of attorneys to steer him through the process.
Those personal attorneys were responsible for A-Rod’s federal lawsuit against the union, which claimed the MLBPA had “abdicated its responsibility” to defend Rodriguez. The complaint did not spare former MLBPA chief Michael Weiner, who died of brain cancer in November.
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