A-Roid

Yesterday was historic because it was the inaugural day of “GB’s World.”
More importantly the date, February 9th, will be infamous for the game of baseball…

In an exclusive interview with Peter Gammons of ESPN, Alex Rodriguez admitted to steroid use from 2001-2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez was baseball’s “golden boy”- their great hope. He is projected to overtake Barry * Bonds as the game’s all time Home Run King. He was proclaimed by the league and media to be the honorable, all-natural savior of Major League Baseball. Rodriguez would restore the legitimacy of the Home Run King title- the games preeminent record.

A-Roid's admission comes at a time when the current home run king is on trial, arguably the all-time greatest pitcher facing a federal investigation and a govrnment list of 104 names that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs exists somewhere. February 9th could very well be one of the darkest days in baseball history.

The interview was a joke- A-Roid claimed that he was “young,” “ignorant,” and “naïve.” The man was 25 years old. To say that he had no idea of what was putting into his body or had no clue of what was going on in the game around him is ludicrous! It was a blatant lie, similar to the ones he told Katie Couric in a 60 minutes interview in 2007.

Like Tony Kornheiser, I wonder why he didn’t take the “good kind of steroids that gets you hits after the 7th inning.” This takes a lot for me to admit but A-Roid used to be one of my favorite players growing up. When the rumors of him coming to play in Boston were spreading, all the Fenway faithful were ecstatic. When he signed with the Yankees for only incremental more money in his contract I, along with the rest of Red Sox nation, was devastated. Man, I guess hindsight truly is 20-20... thankfully this is not Boston's problem.

A-Roid is a pre-madonna who is arrogant and only cares about himself. His inconsistent performance on the field is only magnified by his antics off the field. He clearly loves the attention and celebrity but seems to struggle with this identity in NY- there have been multiple counts of his envy of teammate Derek Jeter, Mr. Yankee.

Rodriguez recently divorced his wife and has been seen romancing with the ageless wonder, Madonna. Instead of spending Thanksgiving with his kids in Miami, he decided stay in NYC with the 50 year-old pop star and her kids. Go ahead and put that “Father of the Year” trophy award right night to your Performance Enhanced MVPs and other awards, A-Fraud.

I was sick to my stomach to hear the way ESPN spun the story this morning. It seems as if they are trying to paint him as a sympathetic figure because he didn’t cop out like McGwire, didn’t say he didn’t know he took ‘em like Bonds, didn’t say he doesn’t speak English like Sosa or straight up lie like Palmeiro or Clemens. A-Roid probably went to Gammons, since they are friends, saying that he wanted to come across as conscientious- like this has been weighing on him for the past 6 YEARS! He lied on 60 minutes, he lied to his fans, he lied to his teammates, but most importantly he lied and cheated the game of baseball. A-Fraud’s excuses for not admitting sooner were that...
a) he “didn’t know what (he) was ingesting,”
b) because he has had his “best years since” he stopped using and
c) that he “wasn’t being truthful with (himself).”

He will continue to garner sympathy with a national audience as long as ESPN continues to portray him as less corrupt than the roided-up players that preceded him. According to ESPN because he admitted to using P.E.D’s, his transgression is not as bad even though it was 6 years and multiple lies later?

You gotta love our impartial media coverage. I just wonder how much of his 275 million dollar contract A-Roid had to give ESPN in order spin the story in his favor…