OT: A-Rod Admits to using Steriods

knickabocker88 · Post #1 » by **knickabocker88** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 7:41 pm

He started Crying in front of Peter Gammons

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847

I think everyone in texas was on them ... I hope Tex didn't use the stuff

Post #2 » by **knicks742** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 7:44 pm

So now the Yankees should void his contract and everyone will be happy. Well except A Rod but who cares about him anyways.

richardhutnik · Post #3 » by **richardhutnik** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 7:47 pm

Well, it is good he admits it. But it is something else I can add that makes me have even less interest in baseball then I do now. I am getting reduced to only caring if NY teams end up in the World Series, and hoping Ryan Howard of the Phillies is clean, and he breaks all home run records, to set the universe right.

Want to know why I dislike Bonds what a passion? Well, after being duped by Sosa and McGuire, I see Bonds does the same, after I root after him. And then he breaks the records of Hammering Hank Aaron, who I was a fan of when I was a kid. He ruin Hank's career record, and blots the game. Want to know why I hate Bonds? That is why. Answer me why I shouldn't feel this way. TELL ME. I would like to here it. If you say I am racist, that means Hank was white? I will take that as proof you don't even know baseball.

The issue, as I see it with performance enhancement, is that it risks the health of those who take it. And the need to compete then forces everyone to have to do it to keep up, and risk their health. As I see it, it is a harmful advantage more than an unfair one.

- Rich

Post #4 » by **duetta** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 7:48 pm

knicks742 wrote:So now the Yankees should void his contract and everyone will be happy. Well except A Rod but who cares about him anyways.

There is no steroids clause in the contract. The Yankees specifically left one out. Who was behind that? Was it Hank? Hal? Cashman? Inquiring minds want to know!

knickabocker88 · Post #5 » by **knickabocker88** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 7:50 pm

He only said sorry to fans of Texas ... Say Sorry to Yankee fans for screwing us for the last 5 years

Post #6 » by **nykgeneralmanager** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:01 pm

knickabocker88 wrote:He only said sorry to fans of Texas ... Say Sorry to Yankee fans for screwing us for the last 5 years

Or for carrying us to the playoffs in a few of those years

He's a great player. He was great before this and he has been great since 2003 (if you believe he really has stopped since then, who really knows). It's ARod, so everybody including Yankee fans will take full advantage to rip him to pieces. But people should realize that he has taken full responsibility, he admitted to using it, when he used it, and why he used it. Find me one other guy who has done that in this debacle. The amount of guys who have used steroids is mind blowing, between the Mitchell Report and now this report with 104 names, the list is endless. Bonds, Clemens, McGwire, Sosa, Palmeiro, and now ARod. Who knows where this list ends?

You can rip the guy and I really can't defend him, but it seems like just about everybody was a user in the time that steroids were not illegal in baseball. Nobody can be considered clean at this point.

Post #7 » by **Tommy Udo 6** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:07 pm

There was no penalty for using steroids from 2001-03. ARod cant be punished for using them - unless it was recent

Bonds is not in trouble for using steroids - he's in trouble for lying under oath about whether he used them.

RutgersBJJ · Post #8 » by **RutgersBJJ** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:10 pm

he has been using them his entire career. Jose Canseco said so, and considering Canseco has been right about everything regarding steroids, it is time he deserves the apologies of people who called him a fool. He probably hasn't been using steroids since 2003. He has been using HGH.

and no, not everyone was using in baseball. There were players like Griffey, Frank Thomas, Greg Maddux, and Tom Glavine that have been pushing for serious drug testing their entire career. They are the biggest opponents of steroid abuse, and Frank Thomas and Tom Glavine specifically are the two biggest reasons why we actually have real testing in baseball now. They forced union leaders to give in to steroids.

Now this will be two players that Griffey has caused to use. Bonds was jealous of him, and now A-rod.

Post #9 » by **mjhp911** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:18 pm

GreenGrizz · Post #10 » by **GreenGrizz** » Mon Feb 9, 2009 10:20 pm

I am a Red Sox fan. I am impressed with A-Rod's honesty. I think I can forgive and let him play again.