Posted on 02/07/2009 8:06:43 AM PST by kellynla
In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.
Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.
When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."
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Try as he did, the roids didn’t make him masculine.
I haven’t seen Tex in years, but I also hope that he got every dime of that judgement and used it wisely. He had some crippling IRS problems from his fight days but I had every reason to hope that he had grown in wisdom. And, yeah, he had heart to spare, but he was one of the nicest, kindest “mean lookin’ dudes” imaginable.
Joe Torre's account of what supposedly anonymous teammates said about A-Rod, right?
Can anybody recall a baseball manager writing a tell-all book that 1.) trashes one of his former players and 2.) gives up confidential information about what various players were saying?
I’m with you. And baseball should still be that way. God willing, one day it shall!
I agree with Babe Ruth that baseball is the greatest game God ever invented.
Love football too, though!
And now shall we look at a certain Yankee shortstop, a certain Red Sox catcher, a guy named Nomar, Manny who, and a whole lot of people who were suddenly bigger and stronger and whose games have suffered in the last couple of years?
I live in the northeast, so I see those guys regularly, but wherever you live, you can probably find a similar list.
I used to know Tex; he was in one of my movies. Very nice man. Incredibly strong. But was very tough on his body, burned the candle at both ends.
.....Honestly,who cares:
—how many senior executives for major league sports are on coke?
—how many senior executives on wall street are coked up ?
—How many congressmen, the senate, and senior government appointees are coked up?
—how many members of the media are coked up?
—How many congressmen, the senate, and senior government appointees are coked up?
99%?
103 tested positive in 2003
So anonymous sources say....right?
nope...it was in the report released
Yes, I stand corrected. It is the specific names that we only know from anonymous sources.
Gots to know what movies? Were you an actor, director, producer?
BTW..I used to work in the same place in Paterson as the fighter/actor who played Moose Malloy and the bad guy in the first Superman.
He came by one day to visit his old haunts and the guy was HUGE! Can’t remember his name. He had a spotted pro career, it seemed he was more into partying than training, but he did have win over Ken Norton.
Multimillionaire players need a union to keep them from going back to the days when the owners kept all the money and a majority of the players made five-figures.
Where are the other 103 names?
While not surprising, at this point why should anyone care? Anyone who is anyone was using or experimenting with steroids. You had to if you wanted to keep up. Steroids ARE PART OF SPORTS! If you want to clean up the sport, let em use them. That way you can honestly say, “it’s the steroids that makes him great.” Shame can do wonderful things!
The real problem is how baseball handled this. They knew full well players were using steroids but loved it at the same time because it helped rejuvenate the sport. The game has changed and we need to realize it and stop trying to believe it doesn’t exist.
shocked
i lol’d
Just look at the rosters of the NY Yankees, SF Giants, and Oakland Athletics during the 2003 season and that would give you a majority of the list.
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