[外電] 進擊的A-Rod
其實不是什麼新聞了
不過洋基板還沒PO上來 就po個原文給大家看看吧
新聞來源：
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/sports/baseball/rodriguez-sues-mlb-claiming-a-witch-hunt.html?ref=sports
Faced with baseball’s longest doping suspension, Alex Rodriguez sued Major
League Baseball late Thursday, accusing it of buying the cooperation of
Anthony Bosch, the head of an anti-aging clinic at the center of a doping
scandal, as part of a continuing “witch hunt” to force Rodriguez out of the
sport.
In the complaint, Rodriguez’s lawyers claim one of baseball’s
investigators paid $150,000 in cash for records related to Rodriguez, which
were apparently stolen. A portion of the cash “was handed off in a bag at a
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area restaurant,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit specifically accuses M.L.B. of engaging in “tortious
interference,” essentially interfering with Rodriguez’s existing contracts
and future business relationships.
Baseball investigators “bullied and intimidated those individuals who
refused to cooperate with their witch hunt,” the lawsuit states. M.L.B., in
a statement Friday, said, “We vehemently deny the allegations in the
complaint.”
The suit, in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, came just days after Rodriguez
’s lawyers began appealing the 211-game ban issued by baseball. The appeal
is being conducted through a closed arbitration hearing at baseball’s
headquarters on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and it is unclear if the suit will
affect those proceedings, which ran all this week and will resume in
mid-October.
The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, does not address whether Rodriguez
used banned substances.
Nor was it the only suit that Rodriguez and his lawyers filed. On Friday
evening, Rodriguez lodged a second lawsuit, in State Supreme Court in the
Bronx, charging that the Yankees’ team physician, Dr. Chris Ahmad, and
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had been careless and negligent in the manner
in which they treated him for a hip ailment last October.
At the heart of the suit is the contention that a magnetic resonance imaging
test that Rodriguez underwent at the hospital revealed a small tear in his
left hip, but that neither the Yankees nor Ahmad immediately informed
Rodriguez about the finding and that he continued to participate, injured, in
the American League playoffs.
However, it is not clear if either Ahmad or the Yankees were initially aware
that the M.R.I. showed a tear in the left hip, since Rodriguez, when he went
to the hospital, was complaining of pain in his surgically repaired right
hip. The M.R.I. did not show a new tear in that hip.
Rodriguez ultimately had surgery on his left hip in January. Neither the
Yankees nor the hospital could immediately be reached for comment on the
lawsuit.
In between the filing of the two lawsuits on Thursday and Friday, Rodriguez,
38, said through a spokesman that his legal team was “doing what they need
to in order to vindicate me and pursue all of my rights.”
The two suits represent the latest twists in a public and increasingly
contentious battle that has pitted Rodriguez, the active leader in home runs
(654) and a three-time most valuable player, against baseball officials, as
well as the Yankees, his employer.
In August, a lawyer for Rodriguez, in an interview with The New York Times,
disparaged the tactics of baseball investigators working the Biogenesis case
and also claimed that the Yankees hid from Rodriguez the extent of his left
hip injury. The lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, repeated those claims in a number of
interviews, including one on NBC’s “Today.”
The Yankees and baseball officials have repeatedly rejected claims that they
have conspired to sideline Rodriguez and keep him from cashing in on the
final years of his $275 million contract.
Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, was named as a defendant in the suit
against M.L.B., but the Yankees, who owe Rodriguez $86 million after this
season, were not, nor were any of the team’s officers. Nor were the Yankees
named in the lawsuit against Ahmad and the hospital.
Among the allegations in the lawsuit against M.L.B. is that baseball paid a
total of $5 million in monthly installments to Bosch, a businessman who was
the head of the now-closed Biogenesis clinic in Coral Gables, Fla. The money
was meant “to buy his cooperation,” the lawsuit claims, citing “at least
one individual who claims to have knowledge of Mr. Bosch’s deal.” The
lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover
his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability stemming from the
case.
Joyce Fitzpatrick, a spokeswoman for Bosch, said Friday that Bosch had not
been paid by baseball for his cooperation. Robert Manfred, a senior baseball
executive, called the allegation “absolutely untrue,” saying, “Mr. Bosch
has not been paid.”
Rodriguez’s lawyers also claimed that Dan Mullin, baseball’s senior vice
president for investigations, had “engaged in an inappropriate sexual
relationship with a witness whom he himself interviewed about the Biogenesis
matter.”
Manfred said Mullin “flatly denies those allegations.” He said that, as
with all allegations in the complaint, “we will do more investigation.”
For most of the year, both M.L.B. and Rodriguez have had teams of
investigators in Florida looking into Biogenesis, seeking to interview Bosch’
s associates and people with knowledge of the clinic.
In March, lawyers for the league filed a lawsuit of their own against the
clinic and people connected to it, also claiming “tortious interference”
with the league’s business. Rodriguez’s lawyers called that suit, which is
pending in Miami, “a sham.”
Baseball’s investigation, widely seen as an unprecedented effort, resulted
in 13 players, including Ryan Braun, a former National League most valuable
player, accepting suspensions ranging from 50 to 65 games. Rodriguez was the
only player to appeal his ban.
In making its defense, Rodriguez’s team has interviewed a cast of people
linked to Bosch, including Bobby Miller, 41, who was recently released from
federal prison after serving well over a decade on various charges, including
firearms offenses.
In a phone interview, Miller said he became a confidant of Bosch’s over the
past 18 months, until the two had a falling out over $5,000 he said Bosch
owed him.
Miller said Bosch had told him that M.L.B. was paying him $5 million for his
cooperation. Miller also said Bosch had told him that Rodriguez was a client
of his. Miller said he did not think Bosch would lie: “He’s too smart to be
lying. There’s no way.”
The suit against M.L.B. was put together by lawyers from three firms: Reed
Smith; Tacopina Seigel & Turano; and Gordon & Rees. The medical lawsuit was
prepared by the firm Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik.
A spokesman for Rodriguez said Friday that Rodriguez “eagerly awaits the day
when all of this legal jostling is finished, and he can share his story with
the public and his supporters.”
心得：
如果A-Rod手中的證據屬實
那聯盟資方手中的資料可信度真的有很大的問題
看來這場官司還會拖蠻久的
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