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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