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Alex Rodriguez said, "I was stupid for three years. I was very, very stupid," when discussing his steroid usage with ESPN's Peter Gammons. Over the weekend, reports broke out that the Yankees slugger tested positive for steroids during his days on the Texas Rangers. A-Rod added, "When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day." [Entire video of the interview after the jump.]
Rodriguez claims he only found out he had tested positive back in 2003 when Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts contacted him, "To be quite honest, I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using," and suggested a tainted supplement he took caused the positive test result—an explanation some experts don't buy. Rodriguez did repeatedly show remorse, "I did take a banned substance. And for that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful," but was upset about Roberts:
"What makes me upset is that Sports Illustrated pays this lady, Selena Roberts, to stalk me. This lady has been thrown out of my apartment in New York City. This lady has five days ago just been thrown out of the University of Miami by police for trespassing. And four days ago, she tried to break into my house where my girls are up there sleeping, and got cited by the Miami Beach police. I have the paper here."This lady is coming out with all these allegations, all these lies, because she's writing an article for Sports Illustrated and she's coming out with a book in May. Really respectable journalists are following this lady off the cliff and following her lead. And that, to me, is unfortunate."
However, Newsday reports that Roberts denies the allegations and Sports Illustrated stands behind her, "I've never set foot in the lobby of Alex's New York apartment. I've never set foot on his property. It's pure fabrication...I think it's a diversion, a shoot-the-messenger type of thing."
The Yankees issued a statement, "Although we are disappointed in the mistake he spoke to today, we realize that Alex -- like all of us -- is a human being not immune to fault... We support Alex, and we will do everything we can to help him deal with this challenge and prepare for the upcoming season" (the NY Times points out Hank Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi still haven't commented.)
Rodriguez's public mea culpa is getting some praise: Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) who has been on congressional committees about steroid use said, "While I was disappointed to learn that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroid use, I admire him for demonstrating the courage to come forward and be honest. We are all guilty of making mistakes, but what distinguishes a hero is the ability to acknowledge those mistakes and the commitment to learn from them." But fans—many are not happy and even President Obama said it was a "depressing" admission.
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As with most caught in embarassing/ugly situations who jump to apologize only after being publicly outed: he isn't sorry he did it, he's sorry he was caught.
That darn reporter lady! Trying to get to the bottom of a story!
That damn reporter lady with the journalistic integrity of a turkey vulture. She disclosed confidential information for purely sensational value. MLB & the union agreed that this 'sample' was to be used to establish a testing protocol, given that there was none in place, and then the 'anonymous' results were to be destroyed. If she was after a story, and not just one high profile player, then she would have outed 104 names. She's a slug.
We don't know whether or not she saw the list, we just know that she got this information from four different sources. The MLBPA was supposed to destroy that list after the test...A-Rod should be mad at them.
Yes but A Rod is not the problem, the MLB is. At this point, the best pitcher of our era, the overall home run leader and the best (regular season) offensive player have all been tarnished. The list includes everyone. Baseball basically encouraged it. Baseball is a joke, so is bud selig. As far as ARod, I know NYC is not crazy about him but I think he handled it well as opposed to many others which have been faced with the same accusations...
I bet Greg Maddux never took steroids-he turned out all right. Jamie Moyer, at 46 years of age, won a championship last year. Cal Ripken played for a thousand years. The egomaniacs took the drugs and corrupted the game... MLB turned a blind eye because they wanted to recover from their idiotic labor stoppages. All of the media masturbated to imagery of McGwire and Sosa, juiced to the gills, pounding the ball out of the park. Gee baseball is back! America's past time is thriving!! Morons like Arod and team owners, blinded by greed and egomania, encourage this bullshit. It is comical that the selfsame news media that fostered this behavior now looks on in horror.
This happened six years ago!!! Get over it already!!!
Classy, A-Rod, classy. Blame the reporter, make it sound like she's some sort of crazed stalker. How about blaming yourself?
Hey, at least he isn't going the Bonds route and blaming the fans.
stupid for only three years? what- are you a rocket scientist the rest of the time?
Poo wittle me wit da wait of the world on my shodas. And the weight of my wallet and bank account was just too much.
It is Bud Selig's fault. Baseball died in August 1994 and Bud Selig killed it with greed and drugs.
amen #12!!
MLB needs salary caps and revenue sharing. Real salary caps and revenue sharing not some sort of in-between deal. Then make every player test for steroids on
a regular basis - fuck the players union. They side-step this issue because they know how doped up their players are.
If he really wants to restore his reputation, he should drop Madonna and marry Nadya Suleman and adopt the 14 kids.