The Issue: The MLB’s decision to suspend Yankee Alex Rodriguez for 211 games for using PEDs.
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Alex Rodriguez stands to be paid millions of dollars (“A-Rod and Reel,” Aug. 7).
You think anybody out there who was owed millions wouldn’t fight to get it?
Find me one person who would truly do what they say A-Rod should do and start taking his medicine now, without any appeal, foregoing all that money, if they knew what was at stake.
Money makes the world go ’round, and baseball players are no different than you or me when it comes to watching their bottom line.
Anyone who says they would pass up that much money for any reason and without a fight is a liar.
No one condones his lies. No one believes he shouldn’t be punished to some degree. But nobody walks away from a fortune without a fight.
Chris Stott
Saratoga Springs
A-Rod has been hit with a major suspension, but what about the teams that employed him and others who used performance-enhancing drugs since 1991?
They get to keep all the money they made from fans filling the stands and from post-season revenue.
The players who finished close behind in awards must feel cheated if they find beyond a shadow of a doubt that the winners used PEDs and they didn’t.
There should be a procedure, like in horse racing, where the winner’s purse money — if drug testing proves positive — is redistributed and the tainted winner disqualified.
Teams cannot look the other way anymore.
Ray Hackinson
Ozone Park
As much as I like A-Rod, I think it would be right for him to step down out of the spotlight and retire.
After all, taking steroids is against the law. If he gets away with it, then everyone else would think that they can get away with it, no matter how popular they are. Jack V. Grazi
Elberon, NJ