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If you could tweet a beanball, it would look like this. Former Mets reliever Jerry Blevins went at Alex Rodriguez without any restraint, leveling the former Yankees great and ESPN announcer for seemingly suggesting MLB adopt a salary cap system. “What a hypocrite @Arod,” he tweeted. “Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell …
If you could tweet a beanball, it would look like this.
Former Mets reliever Jerry Blevins went at Alex Rodriguez without any restraint, leveling the former Yankees great and ESPN announcer for seemingly suggesting MLB adopt a salary cap system.
“What a hypocrite @Arod,” he tweeted. “Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell the players they need to change. What a joke. Good luck trying to get content from the very players you’re trying to sell out to get your ownership group selected.”
Rodriguez, who made close to $450 million during his career and lied about using PEDs, along with fiancée Jennifer Lopez are one of the bidders to purchase the Mets from the Wilpons.
On Thursday, Rodriguez made controversial comments that he feels baseball needs to make changes. He said players no longer have the leverage they once had and that they need to make concessions like revenue sharing, a concept the union has long feared would ultimately lead to a salary cap.
“The only way it’s going to happen is if they get to the table and say the No. 1 goal, let’s get from $10 to $15 billion and then we’ll split the economics evenly,” Rodriguez said. “But that’s the type of conversation instead of fighting and fighting against each other because there is too much competition out there right now.”
After getting criticism for the comments – MLBPA president Tony Clark said “Alex benefited as much as anybody from the battles this union fought against owners’ repeated attempts to get a salary cap” — Rodriguez tried to walk them back, saying he never actually used the phrase “salary cap.”
Former Yankees teammate Brandon McCarthy also lashed out at Rodriguez, tweeting that he hopes he gets “shouted out” from every clubhouse. McCarthy also called A-Rod a “self-serving liar.”
