when that jackass implied that the ‘roids didn’t have any effect because he and cuz didn’t know what they were doing – because of that they might not have gained the full effect. Good grief.

Just the fact that he tested positive for something is enough to completely tarnish his reputation.

I don’t think this really changes anything, it will just make people a bit more nauseous for the time being. Rodriguez will probably be remembered as a great player who, unfortunately, took steroids for a short period of time, which consequently ruined his “legacy.”

I think that we can blame the rash of that on W, who, after all, got to write off his entire life before age 40 as a youthful indiscretion and still got elected governor twice and president (arguably) twice.

I am with you, however, because I am 25 and I think it’s pretty much a no-brainer to say that I would not be letting anybody other than a physician or nurse inject any kind of chemical into my system.

The “young and dumb” excuse works for explaining away old high school and college girlfriends. It doesn’t work when you are getting steroid shots in the ass. Or anywhere else for that matter.

What was up with that long ass pause after he read his statement and then said, “And to my teammates,”? That was really weird. I couldn’t tell if he was going to praise or shit all over his teammates.

This is a grown man blaming his cousin for a positive performance-enhancing drugs test from six years ago.

I don’t know if I would say blame… he needed to identify how he acquired steroids. He did say, “I’ve been looking at people to blame, and I look at myself at the end of the day … This is about me, and I’m the one who screwed up.” But he did weasel a bit by citing extenduating circumstances, “I didn’t know it was steroids,” “I was young and stupid,” instead of just saying, “I knew I was taking steroids and I knew better but I wanted a competitive edge.” Whatever, it’s just a sea of PR, who knows what’s the truth.

Dude signs a TWO-HUNDRED-FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT and lets his cousin inject him with over the counter meds bought in the Dominican Republic?

And we’re supposed to believe he didn’t know what was going in his arm (or other body part) when he had just signed a contract to play baseball worth a quarter of a billion dollars?

Really?

Alex Rodriguez must think we’re pretty f-cking dumb. Problem is, a lot of baseball fans might just prove him right.

He was “young”?? What an insult!! I’m 24 years old and I feel like I have a good head on my shoulders. I am no where near an athlete and I try to watch what I eat but I’m not obsessive over it like these “world-class atheletes” are. So, for him to say he was young is an insult!! I was told when I turned 18 I was now responsible for my actions, not when I was 24-28. This kind of stuff is getting old. These guys know what they are doing, and their PR guys are telling them how to spin the story. I’ll tell you what, interview this “cousin” before anyone has an opportunity to script what he says and then we’ll find out the truth. Who the hell is his cousin??

is all the fucking finger wagging going on by the media at the athletes, when the whole kit and kaboodle, everyone in the f’ing clubhouse, had to know what was happening. Players, coaches, GMs, owners, trainers, clubbies, and the media had to know a whole hell of a lot more than they are letting on. You think a beat writer who is in the clubhouse every day doesn’t know who is on the leaded, or who has needles sticking out of their ass? But the only guys taking any heat are players and Bud Selig. And they deserve their share of blame, but the smug media dicksucks who first moralize and then offer benedictions deserve a healthy dose of suspicion, too.

Uh, because of his numbers, the gazillion-dollar contract and his ASSault on the record book. Gotta love these analysts and coaches stating that the others on List 104 should have been announced as well and that A-Rod is the undue martyr in all this. You think that a Jason Grimsley, a Brad Fullmer or some cup of coffee would attract the attention he’s getting and the distraction he’s creating for teammates? Maybe to an nth of the scale. Fact is – he’s A-Rod: the Bronx-bombing, Madonna-swooning, frosted-plug Gazillionario. What do they expect?
Kudos to ‘Bud being Bud’ and not taking an ounce of responsibility for the steroid era, suggesting that he was victimized along with the fans. What also wasn’t his fault was the ‘94 strike, the sham ’98 HR chase, the ’02 all-star game ending with an I Dunno gesture and a tie, and the ’roid fallout. (Even though it took a minor league coach’s death to enforce base coach batting helmets, it was in the minors. But still…) The next Godly act will be enforcing a wood alternative to bats only after a pitcher finally gets impaled by one of those javelins that have been flinging out of the batter’s box for years. But isn’t all of that moot when, as he pointed out, attendance numbers are reaching record numbers? He doesn’t mind taking credit for that. Don’t forget to remind us that you retired Jackie Robinson’s number too.

excuse me I just vomited into my mouth for a second…Let me rephrase this, If I was the commissioner, I would basically offer complete amnesty for everyone to come forward with information. Not release the info, but allow for everyone involved to come clean, from players to docs, from trainers to owners. Basically, tell me what you know and when. If you don’t come forward and later information comes out that you attempted to hide what you have done, full weight punishment like it just happened. Give everyone 3 months to get their shit in order with their lawyers and whether or not they want to “play ball” and come clean. As soon as the players association gives me shit, I threaten to get outside help in conducting the investigations.

The whole point is that they need to just clean the slate and draw a line in the sand to say “Here, from this day forth, we are actively trying to ensure that cheaters are put on notice” without the pointless debate over the last 20 years. Of course that is a lot to expect from the man that fucking ruined the All Star game….

I want Bud Selig and MLB offices to come clean on what they knew and when they knew it and all that malarkey. We guys at work called steroids during the big home run chases that Bud Selig and and the rest of MLB celebrated as it filled their coffers. We weren’t geniuses or anything, just aware that all sports were rife with steroids. This is while sorts writers were surmising about tightly wound baseballs. They too wouldn’t openly state the lurking suspicion for fear of losing their passes into the clubhouse.

Bud can bust on the players while they make fools of themselves with pathetic excuses. If the players must come clean, I want Bud et. al. to also come clean. Otherwise, they are even more pathetic and hypocritical than the players, as they are now passing judgment. You know they knew.

Ya never know what your cousin put in ’em….

I feel your outrage, SC et al., but I have to admit that on the They’ll Believe Anything front— or at least the I Can Say Anything and It Has to Be Reported Seriously front— I’ve all been pretty numbed by the last couple decades. (And I ain’t alone.) Bubba “did not have sex with that woman,” depending on what your definition of “is” is, when jeepers, everybody but your dog Scout knew he did, and Scout was catching on toward the end there.

Still, that was pretty much nothing. We then got the non-existent WMDs, Mission Accomplished, a Madoff economy, a Vice President sworn to uphold the Constitution who spent 8 years shredding it., and on and on and on. I mean, we had an Attorney General and a President, each with an advanced degree from Harvard, who claimed they had, respectively, forgotten unforgettable events (67 times in one afternoon of testimony) and that the Hurricane Katrina emergency administrator was doing a heckuva job (as people were drowning on national television).

Somebody representing the executive branch could go before the press virtually Every Freaking Day and say, “By the way, Up is Down, Black is White, and in making these assertions we are Not Lying. See, those are statements of policy and thus not subject to the laws of nature much less the scrutiny of a concerned press and public. So just shut up and get out of here, OK? That’s all I have for you on that. Thank you, ladies and gentleman.” And our collective response? “Um, okay, right, bye.”

It’s not like Nov. 4 could just erase all that (alas). Why shouldn’t A*Rod’s people say to him, with a reasonable degree of certainty, "OK, boss, we’re going with a Naivte Strategy on this thing: you were young, didn’t know jack about the Dominican pharmaceutical industry, plus whatshisname, that dirtbag cousin Raul who used to spike the punch bowl at Dominican proms, just played you like a violin, got it? What? No, of course nobody’ll believe it. That’s not the POINT! Jeez, wake up— do you think Steinbrenner shouldn’t have done jail time? Or maybe OJ didn’t do it?!? No, the idea is to make up a fantasy story and Just Keep Repeating It. Repeating It. Repeating It. See, it sounds truthier already!

This is basically A*Rod’s Fantasy Land way of pleading Nolo contendere. And in the social context we’ve created (or allowed to be created in our name) we have to accept it. Of course, Pretend Commissioner Bud could intervene and make a clean breast of this and all the undisclosed cases, for the good of the sport and, in a larger sense, to return the level of American public discourse a little closer to reality.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry, I have to wipe my glasses here.

I don’t think he’s any worse of a guy than many other major leaguers, but his story evolves so much you’d think it came from the Galapados islands. I just loved how he didn’t know how old he was in Texas (26, not 24).

I get the feeling that by admitting he used, he gets “to move on, to put it behind me,” as if this isn’t a big deal. I admitted fault, so everyone forgive me now! It’s not that easy in my book. Why did he even stop? With Gammons it was the epiphany moment (“What am I doing?”). Now it’s “the neck injury” and the testing. Of course, he was “lying to myself” four years later when interviewed by Couric. He couldn’t be any more full of shit if he just taken a horse laxative.

Which Yankee gets the loudest boos?

that yes, “It’s a business.”

Whenever it’s contract negotiation time all we hear is that “it’s a business.” OK, so concede that and apply it when negotiation time is over. It’s a business. A*Rod is the personal manager of a $25 million business line - providing a quality MLB infielder and hitter. The major resource in that business line is his body. If he (or any other player- all their lines are multi-million lines), as a business manager of that resource has no control over the supply inputs into it then he completely sucks at his job. He has failed entirely to manage his line of the business. For mismanagement like that, business people are fired.

WOW, so that’s what all this

sh*t means.

Thx to

Zknower,

Or maybe not.

Damn. No wonder students laugh at me.

Jerks.