New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez is currently appealing his 211-game suspension from the league in his PED case. During his appeal Rodriguez is able to return and play for the Yankees something that doesn’t sit well with rival Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays. Read more after the jump.
Longoria shared his feelings with Sports Illustrated:
I don’t think it’s fair for the other teams, because I’m in the American League East. Whether he is 100 percent or not, whether his mind is where it needs to be or not, he can affect the game in a positive way. He can affect the game in a tremendous way, which is being in the lineup. In a pennant race, he’s a guy you don’t want in the lineup. Looking at it from that perspective and that perspective only, I don’t think it’s fair that we can’t have an arbitrator hear the case sooner.
If you get in a bench clearing brawl and a guy punches another guy and is ejected from the game and gets a 10-game suspension, you appeal that and it’s heard in the next three weeks. You either get 10 games or six games or whatever. I don’t understand why that process can’t happen for this.
