February 9, 200917 yr At least he is man enough to admit to using steroids, and apologize. Give him credit for that, and not lying like others have done. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847
February 9, 200917 yr Not really an A-rod fan but remeber liking him while I watched my favorite player ever Griffey while they were both in Seattle. He'll be close to breaking the record of all time hr's but when he gets there he will have that dark cloud over him as did Bonds. He openly admitted to using them in a 3 year span, IMO if he admits to cheating in the game you take all his stats from those 3 years and wipe them clean. Why does he deserve to have them if he cheated so he could perform better? This is why guys like Griffey and Hank Aaroon are so great. They were pure and human and loved to play the game and do it without any outside help. Its a shame what baseball has turned into.
February 9, 200917 yr I am glad he chose this course of action. I guess he sees the examples set by a few others and has decided to take the other option.
February 9, 200917 yr At least he is man enough to admit to using steroids, and apologize. Give him credit for that, and not lying like others have done. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847 I'll give him credit for admitting it now, but let's be honest, it took him being outed and caught red-handed in the public eye to do so. Even Barry Bonds indirectly admitted he took them (unknowingly.... yeah). But he lied about it directly on the record to Katie Couric in 2007, saying that he never took them and was never tempted. Only when he was exposed did he stop lying.
February 9, 200917 yr He didnt really come clean. People noticed that he was dirty, and he said he was dirty, but he would have never "came clean" if he didn't get caught.
February 9, 200917 yr Author I'll give him credit for admitting it now, but let's be honest, it took him being outed and caught red-handed in the public eye to do so. Even Barry Bonds indirectly admitted he took them (unknowingly.... yeah). But he lied about it directly on the record to Katie Couric in 2007, saying that he never took them and was never tempted. Only when he was exposed did he stop lying. He didnt really come clean. People noticed that he was dirty, and he said he was dirty, but he would have never "came clean" if he didn't get caught. I understand what you're saying, but there are still guys today that won't admit to it. See Roger Clemens, and Big Mac.
February 9, 200917 yr I understand what you're saying, but there are still guys today that won't admit to it. See Roger Clemens, and Big Mac. Anyone of us on here would have at least said no when Couric asked if he has ever taken them. I think he went too far when asked if he was ever tempted. He should have said sure and left it at that.
February 9, 200917 yr I understand what you're saying, but there are still guys today that won't admit to it. See Roger Clemens, and Big Mac.Even some of the other big name guys have never have come out and said, "Yes, I did this." They will just a hold a news conference and apologize for their mistakes without saying what it was they exactly did. A-Rod said it was a different culture then and he felt the pressure to be great so he used. That is about as straight forward and true of a statement we have yet to hear.
February 9, 200917 yr I understand what you're saying, but there are still guys today that won't admit to it. See Roger Clemens, and Big Mac. None of them have been caught as redhanded as A-Rod has. There's a lot of evidence that Clemens and McGwire have, but nothing near the level of a drug test administered by Major League Baseball.
February 9, 200917 yr A-Rod said it was a different culture then and he felt the pressure to be great so he used. That is about as straight forward and true of a statement we have yet to hear. I'm very cynical, both by nature and because of how baseball has gone lately, but I see no reason to believe that from A-Rod. He is one of the greatest talents that the sport has had recently, and if anyone should not have felt pressured, it was him. I look at that statement and I believe it could either be the truth or simply something he was told to say that would lessen the damage as much as possible.
February 9, 200917 yr I'll give him some credit for finally coming clean, but let's face it - he'd have never done so if he had a choice. Heck, he likely would never had stopped using in 2004 (after three years of using) were he not concerned about baseball's then-new testing program. And saying that he did so because he felt so much pressure to be great is not justification. He wanted to be great and used this as a tool to help accomplish that goal, knowing full well he was cheating. The fact that others were cheating makes it no less wrong. It would be no different than telling our own kids that stealing was wrong, but not all that bad because some of their friends were also stealing.
February 9, 200917 yr This is bull. "I don't know what substance I was using"? You're telling me an athlete of his caliber and he's not a dumb guy would just take something that harmful long term and not ask what it was? No freaking way.
February 9, 200917 yr This is bull. "I don't know what substance I was using"? You're telling me an athlete of his caliber and he's not a dumb guy would just take something that harmful long term and not ask what it was? No freaking way. Oh, I do. There are dozens of different types of anabolic steroids that could be used and they all have complicated names. He very well may not have known the exact name of what he was taking, only that it was an anabolic steroid and would increase his performance. I'd love to know where he was getting them, who injected him, and who else he was doing them with. I do find it hard to believe he was doing this in the privacy of his own home. Three years worth of illegal drug-taking? What was his source?
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