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Alex Rodriguez is probably wishing right now that having a "Single White Female-like obsession" was the worst verbal jab that was thrown at him this off-season. Instead reports of his positive steroid results turned today into "Christmas for Yankee haters" as they found a new nickname for him across the covers of local papers: A-Roid.
Rodriguez has not been heard from since deflecting Sports Illustrated's request for a response to the 2003 test results before they broke the story yesterday. He is said to be camping out in the Bahamas with friends, listening to his agent Scott Boras. Many have already called for A-Rod to step forward and confront the allegations head on.
When asked if he had ever taken steroids after the release of the Mitchell Report in 2007, Rodriguez denied it to Katie Couric and said, "I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field...(Since I was a rookie), I didn't have a problem competing at any level." Now there appears to be less truth in that than there is in Vindicated, Joes Canseco's book where he accuses A-Rod of being a known steroid user.
Many sports writers today seemed to pen columns with a lump in their throats as Rodriguez provided the last possible savior to come out of our modern era with batting records that would not have been tainted the way that ones surpassed by accused steriud users McGwire, Sosa and Bonds have been. Jayson Stark of ESPN calls A-Rod "the one man on the planet with the chance to resuscitate the greatest record in sports."
2003 was A-Rod's last year with the Rangers and there are not yet any accusations that he was juicing since coming to the Yankees. However, also included in SI's report yesterday were charges from three major leaguers that union executive Gene Orza tipped Rodriguez off to exactly when he would have to be tested while on the Yankees in 2004. And local writers haven't forgotten that none of this would be the Yankees problem right now if they had let A-Rod walk when he opted out of his contract last year, instead of Hank Steinbrenner chasing after him and essentially bidding against himself to keep the superstar around for another ten years.
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Liar, liar tights on fire.
Any sportwriter that seriously thought that such a head-case would be the saviour of baseball needs to have his own head examined. Then again--we are talking sportwriters, right? Or Hemingway wanna-bes with even less talents and none of the guts.
Can we get rid of Baseball's anti-trust exemption already? Surely we can come up with a league that would never harbor the likes of Selig and Fehr.
And people are worried about overpaid CEO's. Please.
this is the same shit as the bailout. Players take steroids and cheat, get huge contracts and then get busted and yet the teams are still saddled with their iron clad contract salaries after their marketing allure is gone. Who the fuck can root for the Yankees now? I'm a diehard Yankee fan and I'm not rooting for them as long as they have the poster boy for juicing on there.
What an ingrate - if it were not for baseball he would still be shining shoes in the slums of Santo Domingo...
He's NOT a Dominican. He was born in NYC.
Yet gullible fools will obediently continue to fill the stands every season, cheer on the millionaire jocks, buy the overpriced souvenirs, watch the games on cable tv, patronize the corporate sponsors, read the sports pages like scripture.
Does any of this really matter? The fans vote on that with their wallets.
Agreed.
"there are not yet any accusations that he was juicing since coming to the Yankees." Wow that's great news. How many World Series have the Yankees won since he stopped juicing?
None of this matters. He will still collect a paycheck and taxpayers are on the hook for that new stadium. Meatheads will continue to proudly walk around in Yankees Garanimals attending games... Fuck MLB
Agreed. The owners/teams should pay for their own stadiums. If they want to milk the fans, and the fans alone, through inflated ticket sales and incidentals, so be it.
Goodbye Hall of Fame.
whay about the new yankee stadium? why aren't fans and sports writers up in arms about this? that's an even bigger issue. bloomberg raises over a billion in bonds for a new stadium for the richest franchise while we have overcrowded schools and and bridges to upkeep and, it goes on and on ....
As a Red Sox fan, I am never in a mood to defend A-Rod. But...
Is there a way to determine when he supposedly started taking steroids? Does it go back to Seattle or was it just in Texas? I'd be more willing to "forgive" him for steroid use if it wasn't a career long issue.
A-Rod didn't come out of nowhere to have a few great years. He's been an elite player since his first full season in 1996. It could mean he's been a user his entire career, which, for some reason, seems unlikely to me.
I guess I'm in a minority that isn't enjoying the negativity.
I have to wonder just how thorough George Mitchell's investigation really was if he and his team missed this. Or was it just overlooked or nicely covered up so as not to further taint the once-great American pasttime?