While the 60 Minutes piece on Alex Rodriguez was extremely interesting last night, I am so over this whole situation. It feels like it’s never going to go away. SMH. Welp, the latest development is that A-Rod has filed a lawsuit against MLB and players’ union, seeking to overturn his season-long suspension. Report after the jump…
Via ESPN:
Alex Rodriguez’s fight to overturn the longest drug-related suspension ever given to a MLB player entered its next phase on Monday when his lawyers filed suit in U.S. District Court alleging arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who handed down a 162-game ban on Saturday, was biased in his ruling.
The suit seeks to vacate Horowitz’ ruling, based on the arbitrator’s “manifest disregard for the law,” his “evident partiality,” and refusal “to entertain evidence that was pertinent and material to the outcome.”
The 42-page complaint names Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association as defendants and includes among its exhibits Horowitz’s written ruling on A-Rod’s appeal.
In it, Rodriguez alleges the players’ union breached its “duty of fair representation” and charges MLB and the MLBPA with imposing a suspension without just cause.
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