Alex Rodriguez will likely have to wait until 2014 to learn the outcome of the grievance hearing into his suspension by Major League Baseball, but the Yankees third baseman passed his own verdict on the performance of his legal team Thursday.
"We crushed it,'' Rodriguez said. "They had nothing.''
But his elation was tempered somewhat by the realization that his fate now lies in the hands of arbitrator Fredric Horowitz.
After arbitrator Fredric Horowitz ruled that commissioner Bud Selig did not have to testify before his attorneys, Alex Rodriguez stormed out of his own grievance hearing Wednesday.
According to a source, Rodriguez slammed his hand on a table at Major League Baseball's Manhattan Park Avenue offices and cursed at MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred.
"This is ridiculous!" Rodriguez is said to have shouted after Horowitz issued his ruling shortly before noon.
Rodriguez then pointed a finger at Manfred, who directed MLB's investigation into the since-shuttered Biogenesis clinic suspected of being a source of illegal performance-enhancing drugs for ballplayers, and said "This is f---ing bulls---!"
Six years after attacking two opposing minor-league players with a bat during a baseball game in Connecticut, former major leaguer Jose Offerman is nowhere to be found.
J. Craig Smith, the attorney for former Bridgeport Bluefins catcher John Nathans, tried to serve Offerman with legal documents in recent months, with no success.
"It's been so difficult for me to track him down," Smith said. "I certainly don't expect Offerman to show up at court."
The uniform that Bill Mazeroski wore when he hit a walk-off home run for the Pirates during the final game of the 1960 World Series has a new owner after an auction of the his memorabilia.
Hunt Auctions said Saturday the collection took in $1.7M, with the uniform commanding a sales price of $633,000.
The Astrodome is likely to be demolished after Texas voters on Tuesday rejected a referendum that would have authorized up to $217 million in bonds to turn the stadium into a giant convention and event center.
"We can't allow the once-proud Astrodome to sit like a rusting ship in the middle of a parking lot. This was the best effort (to revamp the stadium), and voters have turned it down," Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said.
Fifty-three percent voted against the referendum.
Alex Rodriguez, currently appealing a 211-game suspension for violating MLB's drug policy, failed a drug test for stimulants in 2006, according to a report in the New York Times.
The report stated that the finding came from two people involved with MLB's collectively bargained drug-testing program.
Johnny Kucks, who pitched a three-hitter for the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1956 World Series, has died. He was 81.
Kucks pitched in four World Series with the Yankees from 1955-58, going 1-0 with a 1.89 ERA in eight games.
Thousands of people lined up Saturday morning for the chance to take home a piece of the iconic, but dilapidated Houston Astrodome, once dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world."
The "yard sale" and auction got underway at the Reliant Center, the convention center adjacent to the now-closed stadium. More than 4,000 people were inside or waiting to get in by about 10 a.m., Reliant Park officials said.
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