Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003

[eckseid]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/07/alex-rodriguez-steroids/index.html

[MrMadison]

along with 103 other players.

[Capital Punisher]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/07/alex-rodriguez-steroids/index.html

Not a complete stunner, but still...

[MrMadison]

the bigger question here is, MLB took these tests and then pretty much ignored them, hoping it'd go away quietly. why didn't Selig and his idiots nip this in the bud from the get-go?

[sportsfan882]

Not surprising but definitely disappointing.

I'd be interested to know who the other 100 players are too.

[MrMadison]

this could be another case of Vindication for Jose Canseco.

I'm pretty sure I remember him saying that A-Rod was Juicing.

[spidernat]

this could be another case of Vindication for Jose Canseco.

I'm pretty sure I remember him saying that A-Rod was Juicing.

Yeah. Just a couple of nights ago I was talking about this with my brother. We were going over what appeared to be unnatural power surges since the late 1990's. I wound up telling my brother that Canseco could've been lying about A-Rod because banged his wife.   




BTW, there was talk about the decline of Daniel Cabrera on another thread. Maybe he was a juicer as well.

[Nat of the Living Dead]

Can we say "lethal injection" to one's career?

Can't say it is ultimately surprising since he was never the sharpest tool in the shed.

[hammondsnats]

still a helluva ballplayer and i'd take him

[PANatsFan]

Frankly, I'm disappointed. I wanted to believe that A-Rod actually had God given talents. What a sad day.

[Nat of the Living Dead]

My Yank fans are already trying to stick up for him.

"He wasn't a Yankee when he did it!"

Who gives a crap if he was in a Chicken outfit swinging a bat, he did it, and he needs to be tarred and feathered. He deserves the ridicule.

[ronnynat]

If this is true, it'll really pisses me off. He already had the talent to be the best. He didn't NEED that crap!!

[HalfSmokes]

So Conseco is 100% accurate?

Could be funny, if he passes Aaron the number 1 and 2 homerun guys might not get into Cooperstown.

[spidernat]

If this is true, it'll really pisses me off. He already had the talent to be the best. He didn't NEED that crap!!

Same can be said for Bonds. Bonds had loads of talent.

Frankly, I'm disappointed. I wanted to believe that A-Rod actually had God given talents. What a sad day.

I agree.

My Yank fans are already trying to stick up for him.

"He wasn't a Yankee when he did it!"

Who gives a crap if he was in a Chicken outfit swinging a bat, he did it, and he needs to be tarred and feathered. He deserves the ridicule.

freak that crap. He's been unmasked and he has to be treated as badly as the rest of the juicers. The juice has made a lot of money for these motherfreakers. That nag ass didn't even deny it. I guess he can't really. He just referred people to what the union has to say. He knows they will come out with some weak ass defense on his behalf. They have to go back and designate this entire era in the record books and wipe it clean.

[MrMadison]

So Conseco is 100% accurate?

not 100%, but man...he's the real Vindicator, to hell with Tim Redding.

remember how many people laughed and made jokes at Canseco at first?

[spidernat]

Canseco called himself the godfather of steroids.

[Nat of the Living Dead]

It's at times like these that Cal Ripken Jr. must ask himself, "Some say I saved the game of baseball. But to what end?"

[sportsfan882]

At least we know most all of our players were not juicers because they are so young.

[eckseid]

At least we know most all of our players were not juicers because they are so young.

That is a good thing.

[PANatsFan]

freak that crap. He's been unmasked and he has to be treated as badly as the rest of the juicers. The juice has made a lot of money for these motherfreakers. That nag ass didn't even deny it. I guess he can't really. He just referred people to what the union has to say. He knows they will come out with some weak ass defense on his behalf. They have to go back and designate this entire era in the record books and wipe it clean.

Yup, screw A-Rod. I defended him for years because I wanted a baseball hero. Plus he's kind of a smart, introspective guy, and I liked that about him. Now he's a damn cheater.

[Nat of the Living Dead]

The New York Post has labeled him "A-Roid."

God, I love that rag.

[PANatsFan]

The New York Post has labeled him "A-Roid."

God, I love that rag.

You know it's a Rupert Murdoch property right?

[Nat of the Living Dead]

You know it's a Rupert Murdoch property right?

I don't care. What other paper (other than the Onion) can you on one page read about baseball and then flip the page to read about some transvestite killing his/her lover and melting their body in a tub full of acid in Hell's Kitchen?

[spidernat]

At least we know most all of our players were not juicers because they are so young.

I wouldn't be too confident about that.

It's at times like these that Cal Ripken Jr. must ask himself, "Some say I saved the game of baseball. But to what end?"

I suspect he was a juicer too.

[HalfSmokes]

It's at times like these that Cal Ripken Jr. must ask himself, "Some say I saved the game of baseball. But to what end?"

McGuire and Sosa had something to do with saving the game.

I'm in the minority in not caring. If I'm paying good money to see a game, I want to see the best athletes in the world; if they destroy their bodies doing it, its their choice.