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Alex Rodriguez One Of 13 MLB Players Suspended For Performance-Enhancing Drug Use

The former Seattle Mariner was suspended by Major League Baseball through the 2014 season, the harshest punishment of the 13 suspended players.

A-Rod is A-Gone from Major League Baseball, at least through the end of the 2014 season.

MLB publicly stated today that it's punishing 13 players for using performance-enhancing drugs, the harshest punishment being levied on Alex Rodriguez, the former Seattle Mariners shortstop who now dons pinstripes for the New York Yankees.

Barring a successful appeal, Rodriguez will have serve a 211-game suspension.

The punishment speaks as much to MLB's determination to clean up the acts of some of its dirtiest players as anything. Other players suspended: Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers, Everth Cabrera of the San Diego Padres and Jhonny Peralta of the Detroit Tigers.

But the headliner in all of this is Rodriguez, who hasn't always maintained the greatest of public images and, in the wake of the Biogenesis scandal, has vehemently denied his involvement.

And A-Rod has a special place in the hearts of many Mariner fans, and for all of the wrong reasons.

He left the Mariners as one of baseball's best to sign a then-record setting, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers in 2000.

Upon his first return to Safeco Field that season, Seattle fans greeted him with a chorus of boos and a showering of fake money as he approached his first at-bat.

As for how they'll greet news of his suspension? Well, we'll let you decide that. Tell us what you of Alex Rodriguez's suspension. Was it appropriate? Too harsh? Too lenient? Should the Mariners pick him up? Ok, maybe not that, but you get the point.

My take? Couldn't of happened to a nicer guy.


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