Alex Rodriguez
Lame, lame, lame. It’s tough for me to understand the steroid thing. It’s such a negative thing in the eyes of the public but athletes still do it! I can’t understand that.
So Alex Rodriguez, along with 103 other Major League Baseball players, tested positive for steroids in 2003. That is also the year he won the MVP award. This is all over ESPN right now and will be everywhere for a long time. What’s so lame about this is that Alex Rodriguez is considered one of the best Pro Baseball players of all time and he is in the prime of his athletic career right now.
I know this whole steroid thing in baseball is super played out. It seems every time we get a baseball player breaking records they are then connected to steroid use shortly after (e.g. Mark Mcguire, Barry Bonds) but that is what made Alex Rodriguez so cool. He is all around a great baseball player (not just hitter.) You just kind of like the idea that someone of his ability was doing it the right way.
Of course he still has to answer to this before we can judge him. But it’s not like he can say the test was wrong. It was an anonymous test that 103 other players failed. The test results should not have gone public but the fact is it did and, as far as I am concerned, we can go ahead and get that asterisk next to his records.
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I think the bar is set so high by other athletes that may not have been doing it “the right way” yet getting away with it. I don’t know that steroid use will ever go away. More likely there will be some legal way to go about it, well a more legal way. An easier legal way. I just watched a documentary on steroid use, so i felt like commenting : ]
I’m disgusted. I’m a born and raised Yankee fan but have never cared much for Alex. Still, he is insanely talented, and we all hoped he’d be the guy to break the records and do it cleanly. So much for that. If you look at his stats, almost all of them are higher during his admitted substance years then before or after that period. But not really enough, IMHO, to have put his legacy and future health on the line. That ESPN interview went pretty soft on him. I’m still not convinced he told the entire truth. Neither is the media around here (New York area). The coverage is going to continue for what will seem like forever.
BTW, anyone who missed Ken Burns documentary series ‘Baseball’ when it was on PBS or who wants to see it again can now watch it on the MLB network. Cool!
Yeah his answer seemed very scripted.
Now that we’ve had a chance to see A-roid’s press conference, I think it’s clear that the man really doesn’t have much strength of character. Too bad….