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A-Rod admits to using steroids!!!
His voice shaking at times, Alex Rodriguez met head-on allegations that he tested positive for steroids six years ago, telling ESPN on Monday that he did take performance-enhancing drugs while playing for the Texas Rangers during a three-year period beginning in 2001.
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"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day," Rodriguez told ESPN's Peter Gammons in an interview in Miami Beach, Fla. "Back then, [baseball] was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young, I was stupid, I was na�ve. I wanted to prove to everyone I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time.
"I did take a banned substance. For that, I'm very sorry and deeply regretful."
Rodriguez's admission comes 48 hours after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez was on a list of 104 players who tested positive for banned substances in 2003, the year when Major League Baseball conducted survey tests to see if mandatory, random drug-testing was needed in the sport.
Sources who know about the testing results told SI that Rodriguez tested positive for testosterone and Primobolan, an anabolic steroid. In his ESPN interview, Rodriguez said he did not know exactly which substance or substances he had taken. In 2003, there were no penalties for a positive result.
"Overall, I felt a tremendous pressure to play, and play really well" in Texas, the New York Yankees third baseman said. "I had just signed this enormous contract I felt like I needed something, a push, without over-investigating what I was taking, to get me to the next level.
"I am sorry for my Texas years. I apologize to the fans of Texas."
Rodriguez, who joined the Yankees for the 2004 season after a trade from Texas, said "all my years in New York have been clean." He also described the recent turn of events as the biggest challenge of his life but added it felt good to be honest about what he's done in the past.
"It's been a rough 15 months here for me," Rodriguez said. "I was stupid for three years. I was very, very stupid. The more honest we can all be, the quicker we can get baseball [back] to where it needs to be."
Rodriguez said he stopped taking substances after injuring himself at spring training in 2003 with the Rangers.
"It wasn't a real dramatic day. I started experimenting with things that, today, are not legal," he said, "that today are not accepted ... ever since that incident happened, I realized that I don't need any of it."
He said the culture earlier this decade of taking performance-enhancing substances was "prevalent." "There were a lot of people doing a lot of different things," Rodriguez said, noting that he wasn't specifically pointing out the Rangers.
Rodriguez said he was told by Gene Orza, the chief operating officer of the MLB Players' Association, that he might, or might not, have tested positive in the 2003 survey. That conversation happened during the 2004 season. A source told ESPN on Saturday that Rodriguez knew he had failed the test.
"I had never heard anything since," he said. "Whatever I was experimenting with in Texas might have been OK."
Rodriguez also said of his 2007 interview with Katie Couric on "60 Minutes," when he denied ever using steroids, that "at the time, I wasn't being truthful with myself. How could I be truthful with Katie Couric or CBS?"
were they illegal in MLB at the time...
Most steroids weren't illegal at the time. It's not really the point anymore when this comes up. They know its still cheating. One was testosterone and the other was something that goes with it. The second one you can't even get in the US. This is a big, big, HUGE story. Best player in basebal, highest paid athelete in america (twice), and still 10 years to play with all the records he could brake. I'm not an A-Rod fan to begin with, but I have to say, I give him some credit for coming out. I hope he realizes that he just open the flood gates though. He's got a lot more questions to answer now. This is going to get very very interesting.
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Look at anybody who hit 40+ home runs more than once in the "steroid era" and I bet almost all of them were using PEDs. Bonds? Soon to be busted, though already guilty in the court of public opinion. Giambi? Admitted it. A-Rod? Admitted it. Sosa? Please, who doesn't think he used PEDs? Griffey/Pujols? They're next...
The steroid era deserves a footnote in the MLB record books. Not an asterisk, but a footnote. Both pitchers and hitters have been caught or admitted to taking steroids. I think it's safe to assume cheating ran rampant on both sides of the ball and thus no records can be written off.
The only big debate now is whether to allow steroid using baseball players into the hall of fame. Mark McGwire should have been a first ballot hall of famer no doubt. But since he has been tied up with the use of performance enhancing drugs (whether they were legal at the time or not), the hall of fame voters have turned their back against him and have chosen not to elect him the last two years.
I see it as they either elect everyone or no one. We are talking about some of the biggest names in baseball for the last 10+ years that have admitted or been accussed of using steroids: Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, Jason Giambi and the list goes on and on.
I would like to see who else is on the list with Rodriguez. They said there are over 100 people who tested positive. But the player's union says the names on the list are completely confidential.
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| Originally posted by Brian Scott Look at anybody who hit 40+ home runs more than once in the "steroid era" and I bet almost all of them were using PEDs. Bonds? Soon to be busted, though already guilty in the court of public opinion. Giambi? Admitted it. A-Rod? Admitted it. Sosa? Please, who doesn't think he used PEDs? Griffey/Pujols? They're next... The steroid era deserves a footnote in the MLB record books. Not an asterisk, but a footnote. Both pitchers and hitters have been caught or admitted to taking steroids. I think it's safe to assume cheating ran rampant on both sides of the ball and thus no records can be written off. |
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| Originally posted by Andrieux The only big debate now is whether to allow steroid using baseball players into the hall of fame. Mark McGwire should have been a first ballot hall of famer no doubt. But since he has been tied up with the use of performance enhancing drugs (whether they were legal at the time or not), the hall of fame voters have turned their back against him and have chosen not to elect him the last two years. I see it as they either elect everyone or no one. We are talking about some of the biggest names in baseball for the last 10+ years that have admitted or been accussed of using steroids: Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, Jason Giambi and the list goes on and on. I would like to see who else is on the list with Rodriguez. They said there are over 100 people who tested positive. But the player's union says the names on the list are completely confidential. |
The MLB players' union needs to release the other 100+ names. This is another example of how unions have helped ruin things in this country. But that's a rant for another time.
Nobody knows how A-rod's name got out by itself. There are leaks in the union and the MLB front offices.
I've read "Game of Shadows." Poorly written, but it definitely shed some light on many of the details of Bonds' (and others) doping regimens.
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| Originally posted by Brian Scott Nobody knows how A-rod's name got out by itself. There are leaks in the union and the MLB front offices. |
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| Originally posted by DJ Reese I'm not an A-Rod fan to begin with, but I have to say, I give him some credit for coming out. |
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All those MLB players take roids in one way or another. Its the only way to make an even playing field.
Look at Barry, he fucking BLOWS UP in his 30's. That shit aint normal, of course he was HGHing and juicing you have to be pretty stupid to think that he got that big in his 30's on his own.
Even Sosa was cornered and was playing stupid about roids, he just got lucky and didn't get grilled like other players.
lol what a shitty sport.
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| Originally posted by Andrieux Mark McGwire should have been a first ballot hall of famer no doubt. But since he has been tied up with the use of performance enhancing drugs (whether they were legal at the time or not), the hall of fame voters have turned their back against him and have chosen not to elect him the last two years. |
i say fuck it...
watch basket ball
I think in the long-term, people will see A-Rod's use the least critical of all the major players.....and here's why.
1. He is admitting it. He's not pulling a Roger Clemens and denying the obvious. And he isn't Mark McGuire, who is hiding from the world instead of facing the truth
2. The media, as usual, is being a tad short sighted and is talking a tad a little about how his numbers dipped between 2003 and 2004...after he he stopped using them.
The way I see it, it was his first year in NY adn that in itself was a lot of pressure and it took him that season to get used to the environment. Since the 2004 season, his numbers have gone back up. He hit 54 home runs in 2007. It dipped down in 2008, but so did the whole team. And unlike when he was on the Rangers and stuff where they sucked so bad pitchers could always safely pitch to him because the Rangers were usually losing, how he is pitched to while playing with the Yankees is largely determined by how the batteres in front of him and and behind him are doing. His extra base hit totals were still actually near where they were in 2001-2003, though. And he still hit above .300.
My point is that his numbers when he hasn't been using steroids are near what they were when he was on them in general. So the steroids, to me, didn't greatly improve his game in the same way they largely improved other player's games. In time, when people can reflect on his whole career, think more and more people will see this.
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| Originally posted by DaveT My point is that his numbers when he hasn't been using steroids are near what they were when he was on them in general. So the steroids, to me, didn't greatly improve his game in the same way they largely improved other player's games. In time, when people can reflect on his whole career, think more and more people will see this. |
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| Originally posted by Brian Scott Look at anybody who hit 40+ home runs more than once in the "steroid era" and I bet almost all of them were using PEDs. Bonds? Soon to be busted, though already guilty in the court of public opinion. Giambi? Admitted it. A-Rod? Admitted it. Sosa? Please, who doesn't think he used PEDs? Griffey/Pujols? They're next... The steroid era deserves a footnote in the MLB record books. Not an asterisk, but a footnote. Both pitchers and hitters have been caught or admitted to taking steroids. I think it's safe to assume cheating ran rampant on both sides of the ball and thus no records can be written off. |
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| Originally posted by Brian Scott Assuming he really did stop using... Oh, and I'm a die-hard Yankee fan. When Giambi "admitted" to using, I hoped they would string him up and hang him out to dry. It was painfully obvious when he quit using PEDs as his average, power, and health declined drastically. |
How ironic that he decides to publicly apologize the same morning as Obama signs a $787B bill. Way to hide your headline!
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| Originally posted by skizzell How ironic that he decides to publicly apologize the same morning as Obama signs a $787B bill. Way to hide your headline! |
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