 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and welcome to my blog. Today's topic has to do with Alex Rodriguez or A-Rod in the Report and Star magazine that he participated in an underground poker game at somebody's house. In essence, they're saying it was at a mansion in Beverly Hills in which actors Toby Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were there. Now they call this the Spider-Man game because Toby Maguire was in the movie Spider-Man. After this game, reportedly somebody lost about $500,000, he wasn't ready to pay up or a fight broke out or something of that nature. Now Star magazine also said that cocaine was used and all sorts of other illegal substances. Now the issue with this is that Major League Baseball does not allow players to play in underground poker games. That means Alex Rodriguez could be suspended from baseball. What I don't understand is I don't believe they have a problem with a player playing poker in a casino. And if you're playing in a home game, as long as there's no rake by the house, then it's legal. It's called socialized gambling. So I really don't see what the problem is. If their problem is he's violated the morals clause and that he's embarrassed baseball on the allegations of gambling and cocaine, well then so be it. But if it's gambling in and of itself, if it's legal at the casino as long as he's not betting on baseball, I don't see the problem. But that's what I think. Tell me what you think.