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"ARLINGTON, Texas -- On Monday, I wrote a column saying that the best thing Alex Rodriguez could do for himself would be to drop all the posing, the pretense and the publicists and just tell the whole truth about what he got from Biogenesis and why he felt he needed it. "

The new lawyer for Alex Rodriguez, opening a fresh defence for a player who sees himself as unfairly targeted by Major League Baseball and his team, said that the New York Yankees tried to hasten the end of his career by playing him when he was injured and that baseball's commissioner is personally determined to brand Rodriguez as the "poster boy" for doping.

"In a series of interviews in recent days, one of Alex Rodriguez's attorneys said he would like nothing more than to discuss Major League Baseball's case against the Yankees slugger, if only the league would free him from a confidentiality clause built into the league's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program."

"Alex Rodriguez's attorney Joe Tacopina has remarked there was enough evidence the Yankees slugger used only legal supplements in recent years."

"According to testimony during arbitration to overturn the doping ban of New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, it was revealed that the baseball star paid $305,000 to buy evidence and hide potentially incriminating links to Biogenesis, the now-defunct Florida clinic behind the doping scandal of baseball."