Sources: A-Rod tested positive for steroids in '03

[Electron Blue]

Has this been posted yet? Didn't see it?

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/07/alex-rodriguez-steroids/index.html

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

That is why I love this guy, whatever it takes to win.

[MPC]

oops.

[satxcubfan]

Should Pujols (the other alleged "natural" aside from ARod) start to worry??? Time will tell!

[rocket]

Weren't the 2003 tests supposed to be anonymous?

[ConstableRabbit]

Wow. Just wow.

[OleMissCub]

This is pretty lame. Perhaps it was my naivete or my desire that some modern hitting legend not be tainted, but I was really thinking A-Rod was clean.

[rocket]

Once again, Jose Canseco is right

[badnews]

A-Fraud

 

or

 

A-Roid

 

This is a time of many difficult decisions

[TysonCBulls423]

This is just awful for the sport.

[erik316wttn]

Every now and then you'd hear talk about "Who could catch Bonds" and ARod's name always comes up. There are people who don't like him, but at least they thought he had natural ability, and were probably rooting for him to pass Bonds so the HR record would be considered "clean" again. This will probably disillusion quite a few people.

[erik316wttn]

Once again, Jose Canseco is right

 

Of all people, who would have thought that Jose Canseco would be the voice of reason?

[Wilson A2000]

Now that ARod is tainted, Sammy has to be next. I can't believe no one has dug up some real dirt on him yet.

[satxcubfan]

And of course, the MLBPA is just as corrupt, as the COO, Gene Orza was tipping the players off as to when these "unannounced tests" were gonna happen.

 

Nobody's talking either. ARod says: "Talk to the union, I'm not saying anything". The union says: "we're not discussing this at this time"

[NonProfitCow]

This is pretty lame. Perhaps it was my naivete or my desire that some modern hitting legend not be tainted, but I was really thinking A-Rod was clean.

Well, there's always Pujols.

[erik316wttn]

And of course, the MLBPA is just as corrupt, as the COO, Gene Orza was tipping the players off as to when these "unannounced tests" were gonna happen.

 

Nobody's talking either. ARod says: "Talk to the union, I'm not saying anything". The union says: "we're not discussing this at this time"

 

If it was me and I was innocent, I'd be talking to everyone who stuck a microphone in my face stating my case, not ducking away from interviews. This just smacks of the actions of a guilty man.

[Clem Fandango]

Fail-Rod?

[mcgoobs]

During his three years in Texas he was teammates with Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez, and Ken Caminiti. If he started in Texas any of these three could have been a potential introduction.

[Mephistopheles]

So ARod is example A that steroids really don't matter when youre great.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

This makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Am I the only one who doesn't care at all who has done steroids, especially 6 years ago now? Don't care about Bonds, or Clemens, or McGwire, or A-Rod, or whoever else they want to say tested positive. The fact that this gets so much attention irritates me to no end.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

This makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Am I the only one who doesn't care at all who has done steroids, especially 6 years ago now? Don't care about Bonds, or Clemens, or McGwire, or A-Rod, or whoever else they want to say tested positive. The fact that this gets so much attention irritates me to no end.

 

Agreed. It was a time when almost the entire league was using, the management failed to do anything about it, and it's over.

 

This just makes me sad because it will give meatball sports fans another excuse to hate him.

[Outshined_One]

This makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Am I the only one who doesn't care at all who has done steroids, especially 6 years ago now? Don't care about Bonds, or Clemens, or McGwire, or A-Rod, or whoever else they want to say tested positive. The fact that this gets so much attention irritates me to no end.

 

What drives me nuts about it more than anything else is how baseball is treated differently from football and basketball. This will ruin A-Rod's reputation. This will only add more ammunition to the people who argue that everyone in baseball is on steroids and is a cheater. It will hurt baseball.

 

However, nobody talks about basketball and football in the same way. Cripes, Shawne Merriman testing positive got very little attention. When the Williams DTs tested positive for a banned substance, everyone automatically believed them when they said it was for a weight loss drug. No one seems to notice when guys in both sports look like they belong in professional wrestling. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL and NBA were just as tainted by the PEDs scandal. Yet, nobody says a freaking thing about it.

 

However, this will lead to another Congressional hearing with another player's career destroyed. It'll be sickening and a waste of money.

[Derwood]

I have no idea what is to be gained by any of this

[Wilson A2000]

This makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Am I the only one who doesn't care at all who has done steroids, especially 6 years ago now? Don't care about Bonds, or Clemens, or McGwire, or A-Rod, or whoever else they want to say tested positive. The fact that this gets so much attention irritates me to no end.

 

Agreed. It was a time when almost the entire league was using, the management failed to do anything about it, and it's over.

 

This just makes me sad because it will give meatball sports fans another excuse to hate him.

 

Steroids were illegal to use per MLB policy during that time. Unfortunately there were no official repercussions for using them. I don't see why I can't be displeased with steroid-induced players. They broke or are breaking records because of steroids, and I have reason to be unhappy with them. Just because the entire league was using them (I doubt everyone was, maybe 50%) does not mean that I can't be angry. What irks me is that the HR record was broken by Bonds. I don't see major NFL or NBA records being broken as a direct result of known steroid users.

Edited February 7, 2009 by Wilson A2000

[Wilson A2000]

I have no idea what is to be gained by any of this

 

Bonds, ARod, Clemens, and McGwire won't make the HOF. That is certainly something to be gained.