Booom!
Some of baseball’s most prodigious, iconic sluggers have fallen before – and fallen hard -- so at some level it was just Alex Rodriguez’s turn Monday. Major League Baseball suspended the New York Yankees third baseman for the remainder of this season and all of 2014 for, the league said, using performance-enhancing drugs and covering up his transgressions while essentially obfuscating the investigation.
But on a day that MLB suspended a dozen other players for 50 games apiece – all caught up in dealings with a Miami anti-aging clinic – two things became clear: Rodriguez, fifth on the all-time home run list, has now taken the baton from Barry Bonds, the game’s home run king, as the face of the sport’s drug problems.