WHY CAN'T ALEX RODRIGUEZ CATCH A BREAK?

Can we stop already? Alex Rodriguez can’t take a poop without someone being skeptical that it’s actually not his deuce in the bowl. Alex is a lightening rod, this is true, but the guy also deserves to live his life too right?

Let me back up and start from the beginning. Last week this story came out about Alex Rodriguez going to Germany for a “procedure”… recommended by Kobe Bryant, to work on ARod’s knee and possibly his shoulder. I read Marc Carig HERE... you can too. Marc wrote that it was a "cutting-edge procedure that he hopes will help guard his aging body against further injuries."

OK... so nothing’s really going on with the Yankees this off-season and this story pops up and Alex is attached to it... I’ll admit, I read it. But what I’m not understanding is why people are outraged? Look, writers write the news, I'm not faulting sports writers, I'm questioning why the people that read about it are so up in arms. Last time I checked, this "procedure" was signed off by the team. Marc wrote it and I'll quote it; Alex went with a "blessing of the Yankees." That must mean it was signed off by Major League Baseball too, right? Oh yeah, the commissioner knew about it. The New York Post wrote about it:

"The Yankees first cleared the procedure with the commissioner’s office to avoid the appearance that Rodriguez might be receiving impermissible treatment."

And just so you understand what the procedure is, it's called Orthokine therapy. The Post writes that it: "involves taking blood from the patient’s arm and spinning it in a centrifuge, a machine used in laboratories to spin objects around a fixed axis. The serum is then injected into the affected area — in this case, Rodriguez’s knee."
So, what can we make of this? Is this Dr. Peter Wehling under investigation for doping players? Did he treat Drago in Rocky IV or something? I'm asking these questions because my take is, if the team is allowing their player to do it, and the commissioner is OK with it, I'm OK with it too. Some people aren't though.Enter Mike Lupica of ESPN radio who is apparently skeptical of what ARod is doing...What else is new. Hardball Talk has a terrific piece HERE about the Lupica take. You must read it. Lupica said of Alex:

"Nobody is saying that Wehling, the new star doctor of the moment in sports, is Galea, or will ever look at any kind of legal trouble. Maybe what Wehling is doing with blood really is better than what everybody else is doing, he is one of those guys out of science and medicine who really is a step or two ahead of the field.

But sometimes you don’t have to be either a doctor or a scientist to know that when things look too good to be true, they usually are."

OK, fine. Clearly Lupica took that route because he’s trying to be provocative. Understood. But Why?

Look, Alex Rodriguez messed up in Texas and he came clean and admitted it. Many forgave him, some didn’t. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion on Alex Rodriguez, including Mike Lupica. But like I said earlier, it doesn’t matter what Alex does now, whether it’s walking in Toronto with a blonde bombshell, or kissing himself in a mirror after a workout (Come on, come clean, we’ve all done it,) Alex Rodriguez needs to be left alone.

It’s funny, Tiger Woods crashed his car and immediately it was chalked up as “just an accident.” Of course we know what happened after that. Ryan Braun tested positive for something that could be PEDs related, but many have come to his defense suggesting it's a “big misunderstanding.” Yet, Alex flies to Germany to get looked at by a doctor using breakthrough technology and suddenly, we need to examine this more closely? Why? I’ll tell you why… because it’s Alex.

If it was Derek Jeter, it would be spun as Derek's way of getting "back to his prime" to give Yankee fans a few more years as our favorite Yankee of this generation…but for Alex, it’s wrong. It's not fair.

Hey, that’s my opinion of course. If I was Alex though... I'd be a beaten down man by now.

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