A-Rod undergoing hip surgery

Just when you thought the New York Yankees and the Dominican Republic team would be happy, it looks like they are going to have to handle things without their key player, Alex Rodriguez. The third baseman, alongside his agent Scott Boras, confirmed he has a torn labrum in his right hip, in addition to a cyst.

It was said by Rodriguez’s brother, Joe Dunand, the surgery would keep him of the field for ten weeks. But apparently Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said if the surgery is done, it could take four months to recover. There is still a chance that he might be able to play. If so, he would have the operation in the off-season.

In regards to the cyst, it was recently discovered in a MRI exam a few days ago. Cashman said that he hopes the cyst was caused by stiffness that bothered Rodriguez this past season, which caused him to see a specialist.

The baseball injury becomes another delay in Rodriguez’s career, starting off with last months news of admitting using banned substances when he was playing for Texas between 2001 and 2003. This affected the Yankees, who couldn’t get to the playoffs last MLB season after appearing in it 13 times in a row.

There have numerous times where Rodriguez had to be sidelined due to injury. Back in 1999, while playing with the Seattle Mariners, he tore the medial meniscus in his left knee during a spring training agility drill on March 30. He played in the first two games of that season with Seattle, then was put on the disabled list April 7 and missed 32 games until he returned May 14.
Last year, he was also thrown back in the bull pen because of a strained right quadriceps. This was the fifth time he had to be sidelined.

Jose Canseco - This week sing the apocalypse is upon us

If there is flag bearer of the steroid era of Major League Baseball is former baseball player Jose Canseco.

The 1988 American League Most Valuable Player confirmed he wants to help MLB commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr to make the game “the great sport that it is”.

The funny thing is that a player who accepted that his 462 career home runs where possible by the use of steroids is now a good option for a league that is trying to put behind an era of usage.

Canseco was the first baseball player to come clean on his issues when he wrote his book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big”. In this now infamous publication he talked about introducing then Oakland Athletics Mark McGwire to illegal substances.

On his 2008 publication “Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball” Canseco tells the story on how he introduced Alex Rodriguez to a steroids dealer, back when they played for the Texas Rangers.

As a side note Rodriguez, now of the New York Yankees, recently admitted to steroid use between 2001 and 2003.

But back to the savior.

Canseco has a point of view of those stormy years better than most; he was a user and also a ringer for others. He might be in a position to do some good and shed that notion that he used baseball as a money making business and his books to make even more dollars.

The Major League Baseball offices are willing to give him the opportunity to help; hopefully something good can come out of this. The problem is that with Canseco you never can tell what might be the end result of this ordeal.