Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. Sports Illustrated reported Saturday that Rodriguez tested positive for two steroids in 2003.
What does this mean?
First of all, Barry Bonds and Michael Phelps are happy. They can take a break today since the media won't be all over them.
Rodriguez made the right move, he stepped up and admitted using the drugs. Historically that is the way to go. Yankees Pitcher, Andy Petite is an afterthought, while the American public continues to look down upon Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens who both denied using. Rodriguez also said he was under pressure from his record-breaking contract and he hasn't used since 2003. A-Rod absolutely did the right the thing today and that is the only thing nice I have to say.
Hank, I think your home run record is safe. Bonds obviously used the juice and the man that will break Barry's number just admitted to taking steroids. There was no doubt in my mind that Rodriguez would be the all-time leader in career home runs, but he has now become an *. Can anybody else get to that 800 career home run mark? The answer is maybe two players. Manny Ramirez is currently at 527 and if he ever grows up he can approach the record. The other player is Ryan Howard, who is early in his career, but has tremendous power. The greatest number in baseball has turned out to be a joke. I'm sure when Hank left the game he imagined his record would turn into this type of circus. Screw Alex Rodriguez. Screw Barry Bonds. Screw Mark McGwire and screw Bud Selig.
How does MLB Commissoner Bud Selig let this happen? After the strike in 1994 the game was at a very low point until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa raced their way to #61 in 1998. Don't tell me Bud Selig and the owners didn't know what was going on. The game had become the talk of the world again and they decided to turn their heads and make a profit, while knowing all along about performance enhancers. Selig felt pressure from Congress to clean his game up, and in 2003 he did drug tests to detect the use of steroids with the promise to his players that the results would be sealed. Ahh...woops, the game's most recognizable name just got leaked out. If Selig had made sure this was taken care of Rodriguez wouldn't be in this situation, he would just have to look himself in the mirror everyday knowing he was a cheat and a liar. It was also Selig's idea to come up with the "Mitchell Report". What did that do? It may have made the game cleaner but it also ruined the legacies of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and plenty of other less known names. Selig has shot himself and his game in the foot too many times.
Back to Alex Rodriguez. His ego is shot, he is humiliated, he is still the game's highest payed player in the game's most popular city and he is not going to be able to get over this. Since arriving in New York, Rodriguez has been the focal point of all the Yankees problems and he hasn't dealt with it very well. How do you think New York fans will react to this? Rodriguez is not the Barry Bonds type. He cares about what other people think about him and this will have an affect on his play this upcoming season. Rodriguez has to be the man and he has to have the love of the fans in order to produce. It's hard to imagine that he will have that support in a city like New York. I hope the guy tanks after this. He is a pretty boy, a liar, a cheat and a fraud. Rodriguez lied on "60 minutes" saying he never used performance enhancers at the same time other big names in the league were dealing with the "Mitchell Report". After Barry Bonds broke Hank's record, I didn't care about whether or not he was using steroids because I figured a clean Rodriguez would be the all-time home run king anyway. It turns out I was wrong, Rodriguez is anything but clean and I will never say a good word about him again.
The bottom line is wheter it's Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens or Mark McGwire it all goes back to one man letting it all happen and that man is Bud Selig. The players are responsible for what goes into their body, but it should have never gotten to that point. As Commissoner of Baseball, Bud Selig had a responsibility to stop this when he first knew about it and don't tell me that he first knew about it in 2003, because that is non-sense. It is simple math, if you have an A-Hole running a league, it's going to produce A-Hole players. So forget about A-Rod because that guy is gone, let me present to you the new A-Hole, Mr. Alex Rodriguez, a true product from a league run by Bud Selig.
Alex Rodriguez isn't the only one feeling like an idiot today. Former Falcons Running Back, Jamal Anderson was just released from jail this morning on $ 6,000 bond. Anderson was charged with cocaine and marijuana possession. I just saw the guy the other day on ESPN's "First Take". Anderson was asking if he could host the show. I wonder if he was "coked" up on that set? Its too bad, I had a lot of respect for Anderson when he played.
I'll make the transition of talking about all the bad things in sports to the good by saying that the Dallas Cowboys have finally released Adam "Pacman" Jones. Hopefully now we can finally close the book on this idiot.
What the Los Angeles Lakers did on their 6 game road trip was amazing. They lose Andrew Bynum and go 6-0. Kobe goes for 61 against the Knicks and then LA knocks off Boston and Cleveland back to back, becoming the first team in NBA history to score back to back road wins against both teams with a winning percentage of .800 or greater. Also with their win in Cleveland yesterday, it snapped the Cavs 23-0 home record.
Steelers QB, "Big Ben" might have topped what the Lakers did. It turns out Roethlisberger played the entire Super Bowl with fractured ribs. The injury was not noticed prior to the game, but x-rays showed that the Steelers QB did have fractured ribs while helping his team win its 6th championship.
On a side note, Lawrence Taylor will be on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars". Really? LT dancing, could be interesting.
The picks....4-0 on Friday night. Overall record ATS is 32-19-1.
NBA
@Charlotte -1 LA Clippers
NCAAM
Kansas + 4 1/2 @ Missouri
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