A-Rod: "This is f---ing bulls---!"

[Auggie]

Alex Rodriguez stormed out of his own grievance hearing Wednesday after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz ruled that commissioner Bud Selig did not have to testify before the embattled slugger's attorneys.

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, a source with knowledge of the proceedings told ESPNNewYork.com.

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"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---!"

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/10005806/alex-rodriguez-new-york-yankees-walks-own-grievance-hearing-says-disgusted

Digging himself a deeper hole ...

[KamaAina]

1. Protip: When attending a hearing on your steroid use,

do not exhibit the behavior commonly known as "'roid rage".

[Upton]

2. Check this out..

Embattled Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez unexpectedly showed up in studio for the New York based Mike Francesa radio show Wednesday, hours after walking out of his appeals hearing in extreme anger.

Among the highlights:

•A-Rod said that he's done with the arbitration process unless commissioner Bud Selig shows up. He's extra angry that he missed his nine-year-old daughter's birthday Monday to be in the courtroom while Selig has refused to show up.

•Here's the major bombshell: A-Rod vehemently denies any wrongdoing in the case, including saying that he's not used PEDs at all since 2003. He also denies having leaked documents about Ryan Braun to Yahoo Sports, calling that accusation by MLB "laughable" and "disgusting." Finally, he denies any obstructing of justice during the course of this case, one of the several reasons given by Major League Baseball to give Rodriguez the biggest drug-related suspension of all-time.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24250751/arod-appears-in-studio-on-mike-francesa-show-denies-ped-use

Yeah, okay

[trumad]

6. Kind of like Barry Bond's denial eh?

[Upton]

7. You could look at it that way..

but in reference to me, I believe I've answered that in the past..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1204&pid=16837

Btw, Bonds hasn't been a member of the Giants since 2007. While your adversary cboy has been gone since I believe 2009. Don't you think it's time you moved on?

[trumad]

9. He ain't gone.

And no...I'll never cut slack for Bonds apologists...eespecially hypocritical Bonds apologists.

[Upton]

10. Have at it then..

That reminds me, I've noticed you haven't expressed much of an opinion on the Dolphins locker room scandal. I was just wondering, why not? I know if it was the 49ers I'd be all over it in one way or another.

[trumad]

14. Ha---the biggest Giant-Niner apologist here at DU.

Nice diversion though--- you dissing on ARod is the height of hypocrisy.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Don't you know who I am??! n/t

[Drum]

4. Haha!!!

[joeybee12]

5. Very disappointing if he wins, the Yankees are really screwed...

Which is what we all want!

[hughee99]

12. I have to imagine the Yankees are just about begging for his suspension,

Since it gets them a break on that ridiculous contract they signed him to. If Arod has a significant injury, their insurance picks up his salary, and if he's suspended, they don't have to pay him at all, but a healthy non-roided $25 million 3rd baseman, hitting .244 with an OPS of .771 with diminishing skills, until the end of 2017 is their nightmare scenario.

He'll never retire and leave all that money ($86 million left on his deal) on the table.

[joeybee12]

13. Oh yeah, and I bet some of the leaks are coming from the Yankees themselves...

Like how he failed a drug test in I think 2011 for stimulants.

[madinmaryland]

15. Dude. You are missing the whole point of a-roids rage...

The more he battles, the more he will be able to extort from the Skankees to let him "retire". It's all a fucking game. One bankster against another bankster.

He doesn't give a rat's ass if he ever plays again, but a cool 40-50 million would be incentive to retire.

[Drum]

8. More here, via the NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/sports/baseball/rodriguez-walks-out-of-grievance-hearing.html?hp&_r=0

[Auggie]

11. Thanks. So A-Rod went on radio afterward and complained?

He's acting like a spoiled rich kid. Which, I suppose, is not surprising. He's been coddled, over-payed and has lived (as Michael J. Fox puts it) in the "Land of Yes" for far too long.

Welcome back to earth Alex.

Oh … your career is over.