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RUSH: I have not spoken, I think, at all, and if I have mentioned it, it\u2019s been very limited, on the Alex Rodriguez situation in Major League Baseball. But now that the suspension has been handed down and confirmed by the arbitrator, this is a fascinating case study. Not the substance of the suspension. The way Rodriguez and his lawyers tried to handle this is just — folks, it is one of the best teachable moments I could have come up with to show you just how much image, media presence, and handlers and buzz have come, how far those things have come in trumping substance. <\/p>\n

Now, in this case, Rodriguez was ultimately done in by the substance. I didn\u2019t mean that as a pun. I\u2019m talking about the substance of the reality of the story. That was a faux pas. That was an absolute, total faux pas, “done in by the substance.” Snerdley\u2019s head picked up, he started laughing, “Do you realize what you said there?” It\u2019s fascinating. Rodriguez and his lawyers tried to win this in the court of public opinion, which didn\u2019t have a say in what was going to happen to him. <\/p>\n

The court of public opinion was not present when the arbitrator conducted testimony, gathered evidence, and heard both sides present. And, by the way, speaking of that, Rodriguez didn\u2019t even present. He and his lawyers walked out of the arbitration hearing and went right to the media to deny and lie and attack. And I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s almost as if Rodriguez\u2019s lawyers were studying the way the Clintons went after Ken Starr and the legal system during the Lewinsky circumstance. The mistake they made was thinking that, A, they could win in the court of public opinion, when they couldn\u2019t. But that even if they had won in the court of public opinion, it wouldn\u2019t have changed anything. <\/line><\/p>\n

To me it\u2019s fascinating. It tells a lot about where our culture is, and where our society is, and how what\u2019s real isn\u2019t and how reality gets covered up and masked and camouflaged so that people, at the end of an ordeal, don\u2019t know what\u2019s what. And the media is part and parcel of this. Now, in this case, the sports media despises Rodriguez for whatever reasons. I mean, some of them are obvious. But the sports media has had it in for Rodriguez, wanted this guy suspended forever. So in this case, the media was not going to be moved or persuaded to think otherwise. But it was a total waste of money, is the point. <\/p>\n

Rodriguez, I don\u2019t know how much he has spent on lawyers, but it all was wasted. And it was all spent on things that, in reality, didn\u2019t matter. He\u2019s still suspended. He\u2019s gonna now, they say, take this to a federal court. You know, I don\u2019t know who\u2019s running the strategery, but these lawyers are basically picking Rodriguez\u2019s pocket. There\u2019s no judge that\u2019s gonna throw out an arbitrator\u2019s ruling. The arbitration process, which has been agreed to by the players union and the owners in baseball, has been set up specifically to avoid legal skirmishes in courtrooms and this kind of thing. <\/p>\n

All a judge has to do, if a judge even wants to deny this, all a judge has to do is say, “Well, Mr. Rodriguez, I don\u2019t see anywhere here a denial. You say that you\u2019ve never failed a drug test. I don\u2019t see a denial here. I need you to swear, I need you to sign a sworn affidavit that you never took any of these drugs.” And he can\u2019t do that because then he opens himself up to perjury and the Martha Stewart result. So it is apparent to me that Rodriguez thinks, or his lawyers think, or a combination of the two — and this is what is fascinating to me. It is obvious that Rodriguez is attempting to salvage or to maintain or maybe enhance or promote his reputation in the post-ban era so that he might have some kind of a financial future after all this is over. <\/line><\/line><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s just mind-boggling to me that this entire route has been taken because it\u2019s been to avoid the reality. I\u2019m convinced that Rodriguez coulda made a deal early on and reduced the number of games. There was, I think, an openness to a settlement, but Rodriguez instead decided to go scorched earth on everybody else, and there was no way that theory and strategy was going to change the outcome of the reality of what happened — i.e., he\u2019s been suspended.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s out of baseball. He\u2019s out $25 million minimum the Yankees don\u2019t have to pay him. So he was scheduled to make $25 million next year. He\u2019s out that. He\u2019s out whatever it\u2019s cost him with the lawyers so far — and all of this, it seems to me, has been done so that when it\u2019s all over, Rodriguez isn\u2019t hated in the eyes of the public. It seems to me, the strategy here and one of the techniques that was used was to try to portray Rodriguez as the victim. I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

You know, these lawyers that he\u2019s got, Joe Tacopina and so forth, these are big Democrats. They\u2019re typical leftist trial lawyers, and I\u2019m sure they fully embraced in their own lives this victim strategy, that there is pot of gold at the end of that rainbow, the victim rainbow, and they tried to make Rodriguez a victim here in all this, for the purpose of salvaging his reputation in the eyes of the public for whatever purpose that holds. I don\u2019t know. <\/line><\/p>\n

But they never did deal with the substance of that which threatened Rodriguez and his supposed love of baseball and pursuing his continued dream here. The whole thing, the whole thing is mind-boggling. You know me. I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. I don\u2019t live in images. I don\u2019t make up images for myself. I don\u2019t try to craft images or anything similar to that. I mean, I\u2019m who I am, do what I do, and the chips fall where they fall, and I don\u2019t try to massage or change public opinion about me. <\/p>\n

A, I know I can\u2019t. You\u2019ve just gotta be who you are and let the chips fall. This has been, to me, fascinating to watch. The only winners here are the lawyers, and that\u2019s financially. The lawyers are not even winning in the sense of coming out with great reputations for strategy and victory because nobody won here on the Rodriguez case, unless you want to count the lawyers and their back pockets. So we\u2019ll spend a little bit more time on this. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s just the overview here of the circumstance, and it could be any story. It\u2019s not that it\u2019s Rodriguez and baseball and performance-enhancing drugs. It is rather the strategy and what that tells us — or, rather, what it tells me that I can then impart to you about our society. ‘Cause you know that matters to me. I cringe every time I acknowledge that there are low-information voters. I don\u2019t want there to be low-information voters.<\/p>\n

I mean, I know there are and there will be, but I\u2019d like to chip away at that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Alex Rodriguez. I started this at the top of the program. It is clear that the strategery used by Rodriguez is to trash the system rather than to mount a defense. That would lead one to conclude he doesn\u2019t have a defense, and he\u2019s not denied taking these performance-enhancing drugs. He\u2019s just said there\u2019s a witch hunt. Baseball hates him. This man has accused a lot people. He\u2019s accused the Yankees doctors; he\u2019s accused the Yankees; he\u2019s accused others of malpractice, any number of things. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s now been suspended for a full season (next season) by an unbiased, independent arbitrator. Now he\u2019s going to file a federal case out of this, and it\u2019s clear what the strategy has been, and to me… I may not be able to articulate this, but I\u2019m gonna try. I guess the first thing is, the whole notion of seeking media acceptance and love and approval rather than actually doing something to earn it seems to me on the increase. <\/p>\n

More and more public people are attempting shortcuts, rather than serious, honest achievements — and then accepting whatever accolades come from that. People are seeking PR, buzz, crisis management people to create an image of robust success, popularity, and likability where it doesn\u2019t exist. Now, in the Rodriguez case, he\u2019s gonna go to court now, and he\u2019s gonna argue that being expended for a full year from baseball is harmful to his reputation.<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re saying, “What do you mean, that? What about all these years of doping, which he\u2019s not denied? What do you mean, the suspension is harmful to his reputation? What about what he did is harmful to his reputation?” Now, in the old days, yeah. I have no idea what\u2019s gonna happen given our culture now. You know, the left owns the judiciary now. <\/p>\n

In the old days, if this circumstance had happened and Alex Rodriguez actually has his lawyers file papers that say that this suspension is unfair and it\u2019s damaging and harming his reputation, the judge would laugh himself out of court and tell Rodriguez to stop wasting everybody\u2019s time. Now, you may have a judge. Remember that jury in LA in the Menendez trial. The Menendez brothers killed their parents, and the jury refused to convict because they felt sorry for them.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t gonna have their parents anymore. <\/p>\n

Oprah interviewed one of the female jurors, and she was beside herself. I think it was Oprah. It might have been someone else. But this female juror said, “But, Mr. Menendez is not going to have his mother for the rest of his life!” Yeah, but he killed her. “It\u2019s a shame, I know, and he\u2019s going to be deprived of his mother.” We were aghast. So it\u2019s entirely possible that some left-wing, touchy-feely judge could say, “Yeah, it\u2019s really bad. <\/p>\n

Mr. Rodriguez\u2019s reputation is harmed by this suspension.” <\/p>\n

But he has had all these allegations and he\u2019s not once denied any of these allegations. All he\u2019s done is attack baseball, attack the Yankees, and trash the system. It\u2019s puzzled a lot of people because the strategy of Rodriguez and his legal team has been to sway public opinion when public opinion isn\u2019t a factor before the arbitrator. The arbitrator made up his mind on the evidence, not public opinion. <\/p>\n

The Rodriguez team didn\u2019t even get into the evidence. Rodriguez didn\u2019t even appear at the arbitration hearing. He walked out saying it was a sham, and he wasn\u2019t going to dignify it by showing up. Instead, he went to the media and talked about how everybody\u2019s out to get him. Here, grab sound bite 24. Joe Tacopina is a lawyer. He was on with Jenna Lee on Fox this afternoon, and she said, “Joe, Rodriguez didn\u2019t even testify in the hearing before the arbitrator. Why not?”<\/p>\n

TACOPINA: Because the proceeding was a sham, it was a farce. When Bud Selig wouldn\u2019t take the stand despite our requests to call him, to answer the very tough questions under oath that he\u2019d be faced with, Alex, at that point, said, “I\u2019m not participating in this charade anymore,” and he chose not to, he left. He was scheduled to testify the very next day. It was not even contemplated that Bud Selig would be blocked from testifying for Major League Baseball or the arbitrator would allow that. It wasn\u2019t even contemplated. He was a vital witness.<\/p>\n

\"large\"RUSH: Oh. “Well, it\u2019s a sham. This is a farce. I\u2019m not participating in this. This is illegitimate and I\u2019m not gonna be here.” You know, maybe this is going to be understood by the pop culture elites of the day. “This is cool, man. This guy\u2019s going after the system, and he\u2019s giving them what-for.” But he\u2019s still suspended for the year! I guess the strategy is to make the suspension look unjust and immoral, the way the left looks at the founding of this country as unjust and immoral and unfair and all of that. <\/line><\/p>\n

Jenna Lee said, “What Bosch says about your client–” this is the guy that ran the biogenesis outfit that provided Rodriguez with all of the performance enhancing drugs, the testosterone gummies. This guy was on 60 Minutes last night. Apparently Rodriguez used a BlackBerry, and it\u2019s tied directly to him, and they\u2019ve got all these text messages, 900 plus of \u2019em, something like that. There\u2019s no doubt that Rodriguez is getting drugs from this guy and ordering them and seeking advice on when to take \u2019em, when not to take \u2019em. And pretty soon some Hispanic group\u2019s gonna get involved here and say that this is a racist witch hunt against Hispanic players. Anything\u2019s open here. So after Rodriguez trashed the system, now his lawyer comes out and trashes Bosch because Jenna Lee said, What Bosch says about your client, is it fantasy?”<\/p>\n

TACOPINA: First of all, we talk about Bosch like he\u2019s some professional, like he\u2019s a doctor. Here\u2019s a guy who was convicted for practicing without a license. He\u2019s not a doctor. He pretends to be a doctor. He\u2019s someone who has all the motive in the world to tell a story about, “I\u2019ll testify on behalf of MLB” because of a deal he struck with MLB, where they\u2019ve given him millions of dollars in services —<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Well, it\u2019s a big deal.<\/p>\n

TACOPINA: Well, it\u2019s a big deal because they took him out of the lawsuit, and they promised to go to federal prosecutors on Tony Bosch\u2019s behalf for giving drugs to children.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s true, they immunized Bosch. They immunized him and they paid his legal fees. They wanted to find out what\u2019s gone on. This guy was servicing some 40 other players who have all accepted their suspensions. Rodriguez is the only one fighting this. He\u2019s not even fighting the suspension. Has a trashing the system. They\u2019ve all owned up to it. Bosch has had what he\u2019s done basically confirmed by all the other players. Rodriguez\u2019s legal team, “Bosch never did any of this. They\u2019re lying about Alex and lying about my client.” <\/p>\n

Folks, it\u2019s the most curious thing to me, and it\u2019s a sign of our times, is what it is. It really is a sign of our times, where there\u2019s a reality out there and we\u2019re gonna fog it, and we\u2019re gonna cloud it up, we\u2019re gonna make sure nobody knows what it really is. And it\u2019s a strategy, it\u2019s one way of going about it. But it\u2019s so lame and it\u2019s so obviously superficial. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s some athlete, I\u2019m not making this up. I don\u2019t have the story right in front of me. I read it earlier, I didn\u2019t print it out. There\u2019s an athlete who inflicted great harm on somebody, kicking them wearing Nike shoes. He\u2019s suing Nike because they didn\u2019t have a warning on the shoes that they could be dangerous. I\u2019m not making it up. It\u2019s exactly what A-Rod\u2019s doing. A-Rod, in one sense, some people won\u2019t blame him. He\u2019s trying to ensure that somebody, when this is all over, will still pay him $20 million a year. That\u2019s my guess. <\/p>\n

Money, money, money. Follow the money. And plus in A-Rod\u2019s case he\u2019s desperate to be loved. He\u2019s desperate to be talked about. He\u2019s desperate to be the focus of everybody\u2019s attention. And he really did want to be the only guy to ever hit 800 home runs, and that\u2019s all gone by the wayside. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Don in Omaha. Don, hi. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, hi, mega dittos from a Marine veteran and the father of a Navy nuke. How you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you very much for the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I appreciate it. I tried a few months ago to call you because I was listening to an ESPN sportscaster, and he\u2019s nationally known. It was just after a big brouhaha with Obama, and he had made a big deal on ESPN about how white 50-plus-year-old conservative Christians were ruining America. And I thought, I gotta talk to Rush. I tried and tried, never got through. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait. Hold it, hold it, hold it just a second. And don\u2019t worry about the running out of time, \u2019cause we are —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — gonna run out of time and I\u2019ll hold you after the break. Did Obama say on ESPN that white 50-plus-year-old conservative Christians are ruining America?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no. The ESPN announcer did. The sportscaster did. It was right after a big Obama battle, and I can\u2019t remember exactly what it was all about, so I thought, I gotta talk to Rush. I gotta find out how this guy can even get away with saying this on national radio and nobody calls him on it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s criticizing white Christians. You got free rein. He\u2019s criticizing white Christians — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and I thought, oh, well, he can say whatever he wants about conservatives, because he works for Disney. And then this morning, listening to my news about the New England Patriots about the weekend, he started into the A-Rod scam going on right now, and he turned the conversation into David Ortiz —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, hold your thought there. David Ortiz got involved in this? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to Don in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m right here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don, here\u2019s why I\u2019m confused. You\u2019re not talking about who said what, but you\u2019re using other names so that\u2019s why I lost track. That\u2019s why I thought you said Obama criticized white Christians. So, anyway, where we left off, we\u2019ve gone from Obama and the NBA and Christians and all that. We\u2019re now to the Patriots locker room. Right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, we\u2019re on the Red Sox, David Ortiz.<\/p>\n

\"original\"RUSH: Right.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: He went and said many people criticize me because I said Ortiz has to be on steroids because of his great hitting in the World Series.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. See, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re talking about yourself saying things or this sportscaster. That\u2019s why I\u2019m getting confused. Are you saying that people were criticizing Ortiz or is Ortiz saying that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir. This is the sportscaster, again, saying that Ortiz hitting so great is proof that he\u2019s on steroids.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. He said this where?<\/p>\n

CALLER: On ESPN on national news this morning, on ESPN Radio.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This morning?<\/p>\n

CALLER: This morning, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He has said this in the past, and he reiterated to a pollster his argument against A-Rod.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he used all the Hispanics that are coming up on the steroid list as evidence that all Hispanics — he didn\u2019t parcel it out — it was all Hispanics don\u2019t care about their image in the United States. That\u2019s why they\u2019re all using steroids, he said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And this is the same sportscaster who criticized white Christians over 50?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So your point is that somebody on ESPN has just accused all Latinos, all Hispanics in baseball, of being on steroids and not caring about their image?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because they\u2019re gonna move back to the Dominican Republic or Panama or wherever they came from and they don\u2019t read American newspapers, so they don\u2019t care about their image. And he did go to the Patriots locker room, and I\u2019m not sure where he went with the Hernandez thing, but he said he doesn\u2019t care about his image, he made no sense with that one, but he was just tying in any Hispanic he could.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. And so you\u2019re wondering how this guy can get away with this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely, Rush. Because if it were you that said it or if it were Mitt Romney that said it or if it were Chris Christie that said it, you know already exactly what would be happening in the media.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, who is it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you don\u2019t mind me saying, it\u2019s Colin Cowherd. And, you know, he\u2019s got great insight on sports.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Colin Cowherd is saying this kind of stuff?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. It blew me away, but I heard it repeated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don, I\u2019m running a risk here. I didn\u2019t hear any of this, so I\u2019ve gotta take your word for it. Let me tell you a story. When I left Kansas City after having worked in baseball for five years, I was gonna give radio one more shot. I had this opportunity to go to Sacramento and they took me aside, and said, “Look, we don\u2019t mind controversy here. We\u2019ll back you up as long as you don\u2019t just say things to make people mad. If you say things that you don\u2019t believe just to be provocative, we\u2019re not gonna back you up. But if what you\u2019re talking about is something you really passionately believe and people find it controversial, that\u2019s a whole different thing.” <\/p>\n

I never have been inclined to just say outrageous things to get noticed or to tick people off. That may be what\u2019s going on here. I don\u2019t know. And maybe he really believes it. Who knows? That\u2019s always a possibility, too. But as far as ESPN and how people are treated differently, that\u2019s life. Certain people are allowed to say all kinds of things and they never have anything come back at \u2019em. The main reason is nobody really cares when certain people say things. When other people say things, it matters because people are effective and all that. So I don\u2019t know. Having not heard this myself, it\u2019s tough to actually weigh in on it. <\/p>\n

If I\u2019m not mistaken, I think he said this about Ortiz or insinuated steroid usage countless times before. This is something not exclusive, by the way, to ESPN. And speaking of this, let me give you one little observation here. Have you noticed, folks, that nobody in the case of Tony Bosch, the guy who ran the biogenesis place that A-Rod got his stuff, have you noticed nobody is saying “If Bosch is telling the truth”? All the Republicans are saying, “If Christie\u2019s telling the truth, he\u2019s home free, man, he\u2019s right in there, and we love him, and he\u2019s gotten through the worst part of it, if he\u2019s telling the truth.” <\/p>\n

But nobody\u2019s saying that about Bosch, the A-Rod accuser. Nobody\u2019s saying, “If he\u2019s telling the truth.” ‘Cause everyone, I think, believes it. (interruption) What\u2019s the question? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Well, Snerdley said, “Why do we care if A-Rod took anything to make him better?” Well, interestingly, Bosch, did you see this last night on 60 Minutes? Scott Pelley did the interview, and Scott Pelley is saying (paraphrasing), “But, Mr. Bosch, don\u2019t you realize that what you did is an insult to the notion of fair play? Doesn\u2019t that concern you? Doesn\u2019t that bother you at all?” And Bosch said, “What do you mean, fair play? Let\u2019s talk about fair play. Okay, so you got A-Rod here and he\u2019s juicing, and he knows the pitcher throwing him 95 miles an hour is juicing. How\u2019s he supposed to compete? He knows that whoever\u2019s gonna field the fly ball at center field is juicing.” <\/p>\n

So Bosch\u2019s point was, well, what is A-Rod supposed to do when everybody else in the game is juicing? If that\u2019s what you have to do to stay competitive. And then Pelley said, “Well, but not everybody is juicing.” And Bosch said, “You\u2019d be surprised.” He said, “This has always gone on. Players have always sought a competitive advantage, either in the workout room or with whatever they think they\u2019re drinking, nutrition drinks or whatever, they\u2019re always trying to do this kind of stuff.” And Pelley said, “But this was against the rules of baseball. Didn\u2019t you find yourself worried that you were helping people break the rules of baseball?” “Come on, everybody\u2019s breaking the rules of baseball. This is baseball. I love baseball. This is what it is.” <\/p>\n

See, your question, why do people…? Fans, it\u2019s interesting. The sports media\u2019s been on this doping business for the longest time, and the attendance just going through the roof. (interruption) Well, if I was gonna say, I don\u2019t know if fans approve so much as they don\u2019t care or whatever. Some do. But it\u2019s a touchy thing with some people \u2019cause some are like you, Snerdley. “Everybody\u2019s doing it. It doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re just trying to get better, and if it\u2019s their body, if they want to do it, if they want to suffer consequences later, what the hell? In the meantime, if I want to watch the Incredible Hulk at the plate, I want to watch the Incredible Hulk. I don\u2019t care.” (interruption) No, women own their own bodies. Women are the only ones that own their own bodies. Men do not own their own bodies. <\/p>\n

Snerdley just said, “I thought we owned our own bodies.” No, no, no, only women. Roe v. Wade is only about women. That\u2019s the concept that women own their bodies and nobody can tell them what to do with them. Well, we do when it comes to prostitution. We do have laws against that, so we do tell women outside of abortion there are certain things you can\u2019t do with your body. Eliot Spitzer didn\u2019t care. <\/p>\n

We do tell \u2019em, but men do not have that privacy. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. Well, you mean the doctor-patient confidentiality? Well, I don\u2019t think Dr. Juice was a doctor. He was just… He became an expert in this stuff, but he was not a licensed doctor. He was advising A-Rod when to take the stuff to avoid being discovered, in testing, and this kind of stuff. I mean, the point is, A-Rod\u2019s texting him during games and after games. <\/p>\n

(interruption) Well, it\u2019s a rule of baseball, Snerdley, and they\u2019re trying to clean up the game because ever since the Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds era. All the records have been distorted and so forth, and there\u2019s a big blip there, an asterisk. I mean, you have to be impressed with the fact there\u2019s some people trying to maintain some standards here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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