In the latest twist in embattled third baseman Alex Rodriguez's lawsuit against Major League Baseball and commissioner Bud Selig, A-Rod called Selig a "coward" in a 33-page complaint that included a photo of Selig with a fan wearing an 'A-Roid' shirt.
The New York Daily News reports that A-Rod's attorney's filed the amended complaint in his lawsuit against the MLB on Tuesday after claiming that Bud Selig chose to "hide" in Milwaukee rather than testify at Rodriguez's appeal hearing in New York for his 211-game suspension that was handed down to him for his alleged connection to the Biogenesis clinic and performance enhancing drugs.
Rodriguez's legal team cited that Selig's lack of appearance coincides with the commissioner's "cowardly stance" and provided a picture of Selig posing with a fan wearing the 'A-Roid' shirt and a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap:
This new A-Rod evidence against Bud Selig is a bombshell. A god dang bombshell. https://t.co/9SXsFl6jYy
— Bill Handturkey (@sundownmotel) November 26, 2013
"One cannot imagine the commissioner of any other professional sport - or indeed the CEO of any business - doing something similar with respect to one of his or her players or employees," Team A-Rod said in the papers filed in Manhattan federal court, according to The Daily News.
The report also says that Selig "lacked the courage" to come to New York and testify in Rodriguez's appeal hearing to explain the validity of the unprecedented ban against A-Rod and to defend the conduct of investigators during the MLB's Biogenesis investigation that eventually led to the suspensions of 14 players, 13 of which accepted and agreed to their punishments.
"His silence on these issues speaks volumes and leads to only one logical conclusion - his actions and those of the MLB personnel he controls, were aimed at destroying the reputation, career and business prospects of Alex Rodriguez," the amended complaint reads according to The Daily News.
Rodriguez stormed out of his appeal hearing last week after arbitrator Frederic Horowitz concluded that Selig didn't have to come to New York and testify since baseball's COO Rob Manfred took the stand to testify on behalf of the MLB.
Horowitz is expected to rule on whether the suspension will be reduced, upheld or thrown out completely either next month or in January, until then the ugly battle between Rodriguez and his attorneys and the MLB and Selig continues to swell with each passing day.
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