A-Rod Now A-Fraud in the Steroid Era
Posted by agarwal on 2/10/09 • Categorized as MLB
Wow Alex Rodriguez. You were the one person who could break Barry Bonds’ home run record without using steroids, you were going to save baseball’s home run record. Way to go A-Rod; you screwed it up. You think that just because you came clean you are going to be forgiven for using performance enhancing drugs, for cheating. Even if you have 20 good years of baseball, where you have 600 hom runs and a .310 batting average, your career will forever be marked by the use of steroids between the years of 2001-2003. Years in which you put up your best career numbers and won an MVP award. By cheating, you also knock the New York Yankees organization, again, as they have had players like Jason Giambi, Andy Pettite and Roger Clemens all fall into the trap of taking these drugs. You can no longer be the savior of baseballs’ most prestigious record because you cheated, and you will forever have an asterisk beside your name, like so:
Alex Rodriguez*
Baseball has been so heavily effected by steroids because the MLB’s higher officials, like commissioner Bud Selig, refused to stop the use of steroids in the early 90′s. Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa brought baseball back into American minds, because of the home runs they were hitting, and because of all these fans, the MLB was making money. Clearly, many players during this time were using performance enhancing drugs, and Selig and his cronies just watch the players damage themselves. The only way that baseball can possibly clean itself up is if Bud Selig resigns. He no longer has authority over the stopping of steroids, because he was half of the problem. Selig is perhaps the worst commissioner of all of Major League Baseball’s history. He believed that the problem would end right after the Barry Bonds trial. However the problem has just quintupled, now that one of the league’s biggest stars as well as 103 other players have been accused of taking steroids. Nice job Bud, you ruined the reputation of baseball, just to improve your own cash flow. Until a new commissioner is installed, baseball will continue to writhe in its own ‘juices’, because Bud Selig isn’t going to do anything. Selig has overseen baseball during its worst era: the steroid era.
Alex Rodriguez has tarnished his reputation, and while he still may be a great hitter, the ever so feared (*) symbol will remain next to his name. The MLB will eventually be clean, however it will take a huge push from higher management to punish players harshl for using banned substances, and quite frankly, that will take the resignation of Bud Selig.
I beleive that A-rod is one of the best homerun hitters even better than bonds. Matter if he took roids or not he can play.
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yes, rodriguez is definitely a great hitter, however the fact is that he took steroids, and whether he would have put up MVP like numbers without them we’ll never know, so he tarnished his reputation.
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Let’s accept it, baseball and football are entertainment events. Let’s not kid ourselves that they are anything more than that, what with players being bought and sold, without any geographical affinity. So, why bother if the entertainers (aka stars) take steroids. As long as they entertain us. These sports are soon going to go the way of wrestling and the WWF. When is the last time we complained about a WWF star taking performance enhancing drugs. If you want to watch real sports, then watch the Olympics.
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Of course we have to care if these stars take steroids. WWE is a whole different concept: the fights are scripted and the outcome is already decided. This just supports my point that Bud Selig needs to leave, because he is diluting the minds of innocent fans such as you, making you think that all sports stars (not even just baseball players) are involved with steroid use.
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I think NESO needs to make a filibuster against the way professional sports are run today. Sports like baseball are at a crossroads — they can go the way of WWF entertainment, or they can remain serious competitive sports. Steroids, drugs, and moneyed teams outbidding other teams for the best players, are just some of the factors deteriorating our sports into WWF like farces. I propose the following minimum fixes to our sports. First, we put a cap on total spending by any team so that all teams are more or less on an even playing field (sic). Second, ban for life players who take performance enhancing substances.
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most professional sports already have a ‘spending limit’ or a salary cap, except for baseball. I think that banning players for life is definitely a possibility at this point.
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personaly, i hate a-rod, and i think he needs to apologize sincerely for people to actually start respecting him again.
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I totally agree. He completely bombed his press conference, as he had the opportunity to come clean. All he needed to say was that he took steroids knowingly because he couldn’t deal with the pressure, and he was extremely regretful about it. Unfortunately for him, he continued on his ‘young and naive’ junk.
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