I hope the biggest jerk in professional sports gets what's coming to him!
PS. Have a great day Roger!
Posted on 02/17/2009 11:25:43 AM PST by death2tyrants
TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez said it "feels great to be moving forward" Tuesday during his first press conference since he admitted using steroids in an interview last week.
Rodriguez, who acknowledged using the substance as a Texas Ranger during the 2001-03 seasons, said the decision was a "stupd mistake and lesson learned for a guy with a lot of baseball left to play."
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He should STFU and give back his MVP award when he took the roids’. His credibility is as low as Hussein’s right now.
If I were drawing his kind of bank, I would too.
I was hoping A-Rod was for real. This is very disappointing to an “old timey” baseball fan like myself. The steroid boys of summer is not my gig.
Honestly, I’d just like to roll back baseball to about 1955. Less drama, less money bloated ego’s, more baseball.
HA...I’d like to roll LOTS of things back to about 1955...
A-Roid
“HA...I’d like to roll LOTS of things back to about 1955...”
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Post of the millenium.
This whole steroid-era is like pulling a loose thread on your favorite sweater.
I think if you picked at the Pete Rose gambling thing a little more, you’d find that his unsavory ‘friends’ (gym-rats all) were probably dealing steroids as well as taking bets. Wanna bet that some of those steroids made their way into some clubhouses back in the day?
I don’t watch or support any professional sports.....and this is a big part of the reason why.
yep, the brooks first and only WS championship.
The 50’s and 60’s was the painkiller and Bennies (speed) era.
No difference really. Perhaps more illegal than A-rod.
I hope the biggest jerk in professional sports gets what's coming to him!
PS. Have a great day Roger!
*Alex Rodriguez said it “feels great to be moving forward”*
This is what his highly paid media advisors told him to say? Basically, this is the same line that McGwire peddled in front of Congress. It sure takes some cojones. “Hey, I am guilty, and y’all just found out about it like, 2 days ago, but let’s MOVE FOWARD and forget all that stuff—okay?”
Sheesh.
Let’s put an asterisk next to every pitcher that had Tommy John surgery, every repaired rotator cuff, every player who had cadaverous ACL reconstruction, every player who had a diagnostic MRI revealing soft tissue damage needing repair.
Why single out pharmaceutical advances as cheating (when not specifically banned)? I’m no ARod apologist, but as long as what he was doing was within the rules of the game, I have no problem with it.
I have hard time believing he did not know what he was taking
Of course most of them were taking it illegally. It’s kind of a sad statement on baseball that illegal uses of substances weren’t against the rules.
Actually, he said he DID know what he was taking. I watched the press conference and he did seem genuinely repentant unlike many of the other guys who have come out and addressed their use. Is it right? Of course not. Did he make a mistake by doing it? Definitely. Should he be held accountable for his actions? Yes, so long as the other people on the list are as well. However, I think, judging from the video, that he learned his lesson and he's right to want to move forward and get past this so long as he stays clean from here on out.
I think that guy’s got a little roid-rage happening...jebus...
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