Lets break down this timeline. A-Rod is called out in a SI article. A-Rod has a sit down “interview”
with Peter Gammons in which he admits the use of PED’s. A-Rod reports to Spring Training looking to get back to baseball. A-Rod has a “news conference” so he can get everything out in the open. A-Rod homers in first spring training game. He then reports to the Dominican WBC team. Last Sunday he meets with MLB officials. All of a sudden he goes to see a hip specialist about a cyst. During the surgery, they find a partially torn labrum and yesterday he decides to have surgery that will keep him out 6-9 weeks. Wow. Does anything in that sequence of events seem, I don’t know, peculiar?
So he meets with MLB and then, all of a sudden, he needs to see a hip specialist. In Colorado of all places(no hip specialists in NYC?). He has a partially torn labrum that will keep him out up to a month and a half, or roughly 50 games. For those of you who don’t know, that is the length of the 1st offense suspension for using PED’s. Now, I’m no conspiracy theorist(wait, yes I am) but I believe that this is just waaaaaaaaay to coincidental.
So this piqued my curiosity. I went back to the 2007 season when Roger Clemens decided to hold out till mid-season before he chose a team to play for. Well, it just so happens that the first game he pitched in: #60. I know it is ten games more then the suspension length, but I do remember that he took one more minor league start, so his original return date would have been right around the 50th game.
Is this scenario likely, sure. Probable, I think so. Of course I also believe that Oswald was not alone, Micheal Jordan didn’t just all of a sudden decide to play baseball for a year(suspended by the NBA for gambling), the Knicks got Patrick Ewing because the draft lottery was fixed, and Tupac is still alive.
These may be far-fetched, but is it out of the realm of possibility, absolutely not. Let the debate begin.
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