A-Rod reportedly tested positive for steroids

[A1A-Keet]

These are A-Rod's statistics for 2003:
181 hits,
47 homers,
118 R.B.I.,
124 runs scored,
30 doubles,
17 stolen bases,
.298 B.A.

I'm sorry, I KNOW he's a pretty good player, but these days no matter WHO puts up numbers like that needs to be investigated for the use of ANYTHING illegal.
If he's found to be clean, the God bless him.
If he's found to be otherwise, KICK HIS FRIGGIN' A$$ OUT OF THE GAME!!!

Whether these baffoons know it or not, they ARE setting an example to young kids, and, no matter HOW many years ago this happened, it needs to be dealt with.
NOW.

Thats 100% FREAKIN TRUE! There's FRESHMEN in my school on the baseball team getting their hands on chew and roids, you should see these guys beat up someone it looks like they were in a frikkin trainwreck. And then the kids doin roids and chew get cought and end up in MY p.e class! Then I get womped on! STOP THE MADNESS!

[aeroparrot]

Why? What are these idiots thinking. Do they have a clue what that stuff does to your body? It causes irreversible damage. "Yeah, I'm a big ass baseball player with balls the size of marbles." I guess their careers are more important than their health and sex life.

Their sex life has no change when they make the money they make.

Yep. They probably figure that if they make millions of dollars, women will flock to them because of it and they don't have to worry about their sex life.

[A1A-Keet]

Why? What are these idiots thinking. Do they have a clue what that stuff does to your body? It causes irreversible damage. "Yeah, I'm a big ass baseball player with balls the size of marbles." I guess their careers are more important than their health and sex life.

Their sex life has no change when they make the money they make.

Yep. They probably figure that if they make millions of dollars, women will flock to them because of it and they don't have to worry about their sex life.

Exactly.

[Tequila Revenge]

Why? What are these idiots thinking. Do they have a clue what that stuff does to your body? It causes irreversible damage. "Yeah, I'm a big ass baseball player with balls the size of marbles." I guess their careers are more important than their health and sex life.

Their sex life has no change when they make the money they make.

Yep. They probably figure that if they make millions of dollars, women will flock to them because of it and they don't have to worry about their sex life.

Exactly.

Is that an indictment on womens

[Glorfindel7]

Sadly, this is likely one of the reasons you hear of kids dying in the middle of games....
What people will do to try to get ahead of the pack.....

[Wino you know]

Rodriguez (and everyone else who takes steroids) need to be banned from the game NOW and FOREVER.
(Or Pete Rose needs to be re-instated).

Oh, to have a commissioner like Kennesaw Mountain Landis again.

[Glorfindel7]

Rodriguez (and everyone else who takes steroids) need to be banned from the game NOW and FOREVER.
(Or Pete Rose needs to be re-instated).

Oh, to have a commissioner like Kennesaw Mountain Landis again.

I agree, he didn't let the law get in his way....

BTW I think we should enshrine Pete Rose, what he did didn't do HALF the damage to the integrity of this game as some of these roiders are now doing Besides why are we looking at what he did as a "manager" anyway... He was one of the greatest players of all time and should be recogized on that merit.....

[Wino you know]

I agree, he didn't let the law get in his way....

BTW I think we should enshrine Pete Rose, what he did didn't do HALF the damage to the integrity of this game as some of these roiders are now doing Besides why are we looking at what he did as a "manager" anyway... He was one of the greatest players of all time and should be recogized on that merit.....

A-Rod is going to get away with it because the G.D.M.F. UNION ( ) he belongs to will get him out of it due to the fact it happened "so long ago."
Meanwhile, guys like Shoeless Joe Jackson, WHO WAS AQUITTED, along with most of his other team mates, remains ineligible for Hall of Fame induction due to some trumped up charge.

[LIPH]

Since this story broke I've seen him called A-Fraud and A-Roid. This morning's NY Post: A-Hole

[LIPH]

Breaking news: Rodriguez admits he used 'roids

[Lightning Bolt]

Rodriguez (and everyone else who takes steroids) need to be banned from the game NOW and FOREVER.
(Or Pete Rose needs to be re-instated).

Oh, to have a commissioner like Kennesaw Mountain Landis again.

I agree, he didn't let the law get in his way....

BTW I think we should enshrine Pete Rose, what he did didn't do HALF the damage to the integrity of this game as some of these roiders are now doing Besides why are we looking at what he did as a "manager" anyway... He was one of the greatest players of all time and should be recogized on that merit.....

Can't agree with you at all there, Glor

The effect of the possible "throwing" of a game for the purpose of his own (or even scarier, others') financial gain
goes to the very heart of the game's integrity. Same for all other sports, you have to believe the game is being contested honestly.
It turns a true competition into a mere exhibition. The difference is very important.
Pete Rose should not see the HOF. It has to be a lesson for the generations.

Where steroids are involved in team sports, there is no guarantee of victory, only the hopeful promise of improved performance.
...and everyone is trying to achieve that...always... whether through advanced supplements or training.
Ask Pete Incaviglia or Rob Deer... juicers who could sometimes connect.

Since steroids were not illegal, how can you retroactively punish the offenders?
By wiping any records from the books, and let public opinion handle the possibilities for HOF induction.

So far, it has worked pretty much as predicted...

[SharkOnLand]

Breaking news: Rodriguez admits he used 'roids

I was watching ESPN at lunch, he admitted it in an interview with Peter Gammons. Says it was only while he was at Texas, though. Says he had tremendous pressure to perform.

[Lightning Bolt]

Who would have thought Jose Canseco would come out of this looking like a sage?

I'd like to look back at the threads to see how many here just thought he was a rat?

[RinglingRingling]

Breaking news: Rodriguez admits he used 'roids

I was watching ESPN at lunch, he admitted it in an interview with Peter Gammons. Says it was only while he was at Texas, though. Says he had tremendous pressure to perform.

$25 mil/year... and how did he do on the juice?

[Lightning Bolt]

Breaking news: Rodriguez admits he used 'roids

I was watching ESPN at lunch, he admitted it in an interview with Peter Gammons. Says it was only while he was at Texas, though. Says he had tremendous pressure to perform.

$25 mil/year... and how did he do on the juice?

He didn't hit 66... or 70... or 73

[RinglingRingling]

Breaking news: Rodriguez admits he used 'roids

I was watching ESPN at lunch, he admitted it in an interview with Peter Gammons. Says it was only while he was at Texas, though. Says he had tremendous pressure to perform.

$25 mil/year... and how did he do on the juice?

He didn't hit 66... or 70... or 73

Guess the roids and the positive tests were worth the short and longterm damage...

[Dezdmona]

What a terrible waste of a natural talent. He threw it all away apparently just to feed his ego.

[SuperTrooper]

Rodriguez (and everyone else who takes steroids) need to be banned from the game NOW and FOREVER.
(Or Pete Rose needs to be re-instated).

Oh, to have a commissioner like Kennesaw Mountain Landis again.

Take a pill, Gary. Nobody from that era has been penalized, and until you can prove he did it under the new rules the public backlash will have to suffice. A-ROID faces a very long year.

As far as your last statement, Landis was a horrendous bigot who was the single reason why blacks were kept out of baseball for so long. The only good thing you can say about him is he did all he could to keep gambling and related corruption out of baseball. I bet you didn't know that the MVP award in each league is actually named for him.

[Glorfindel7]

Rodriguez (and everyone else who takes steroids) need to be banned from the game NOW and FOREVER.
(Or Pete Rose needs to be re-instated).

Oh, to have a commissioner like Kennesaw Mountain Landis again.

I agree, he didn't let the law get in his way....

BTW I think we should enshrine Pete Rose, what he did didn't do HALF the damage to the integrity of this game as some of these roiders are now doing Besides why are we looking at what he did as a "manager" anyway... He was one of the greatest players of all time and should be recogized on that merit.....

Can't agree with you at all there, Glor

The effect of the possible "throwing" of a game for the purpose of his own (or even scarier, others') financial gain
goes to the very heart of the game's integrity. Same for all other sports, you have to believe the game is being contested honestly.
It turns a true competition into a mere exhibition. The difference is very important.
Pete Rose should not see the HOF. It has to be a lesson for the generations.

Where steroids are involved in team sports, there is no guarantee of victory, only the hopeful promise of improved performance.
...and everyone is trying to achieve that...always... whether through advanced supplements or training.
Ask Pete Incaviglia or Rob Deer... juicers who could sometimes connect.

Since steroids were not illegal, how can you retroactively punish the offenders?
By wiping any records from the books, and let public opinion handle the possibilities for HOF induction.

So far, it has worked pretty much as predicted...

I don't know if it was ever proved he'd "throw" a game... I could see him betting on his own team "to win" however.
Now the "Black Sox"... that was another animal entirely

[aeroparrot]

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