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This whole being-banned-from-baseball thing was caused, according to Alex Rodriguez (played by Drake), by terrible auto-correct on his iPhone.

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If there's a more sympathetic athlete in American sports than Alex Rodriguez, I can only imagine it's Lance Armstrong.

A-Rod, as he's often called, has been banned from baseball for a whole season, partly for alleged drug use and partly for just being someone an insufficient number of people like.

Many wondered how he'd come to be associated with a now discredited peddler of nutritional advice called Tony Bosch.

So A-Rod appeared on 'Saturday Night Live' to explain that it's all a misunderstanding. A misunderstanding caused by his iPhone.

Alright, this wasn't really A-Rod. It was Drake playing A-Rod. But one can imagine the real A-Rod attempting this robust defense.

'Have you ever heard of auto-correct?' he arrogantly asked an alleged Piers Morgan, who sounded like an upper-class hemorrhoid patient in a suburban English hospital. So, yes, he sounded a little, at least, like Piers Morgan.

A-Rod went on to explain that he'd used his iPhone to text Bosch: 'What up, son? Thinking of seeing 'Frozen' tonight. Heard good things.'

Apple's twisted device allegedly auto-corrected this to: 'Just took a hundred steroids. Need to buy thousands more. This is A-Rod BTW.'

When asked why he was texting Bosch at all, A-Rod explained: 'I texted him 'Lost my phone. Who dis?' but that got auto-corrected to, like, 'my butt equals, then like an emoji of a steroid needle.''

There's only one solution now. 'I'm suing my iPhone, as well as the dictionary.'

A-Rod would probably have as much success doing that, as continuing to sue Major League Baseball and the players' union.

After all, it's well known that auto-correct can create enormous pickles by changing things like 'IUD' to 'DUI.'

Should you enjoy Drake's performance as A-Rod, you will surely adore the depiction of another star who is having iPhone trouble.

Justin Bieber's iPhone has been confiscated by police, after an alleged egg-throwing incident.

Here Bieber, played brilliantly by Kate McKinnon, explains himself with the confident aplomb only an iPhone owner can muster.

I am sure that after listening to McKinnon's Bieber, you will become a Belieber.