Alex Rodriguez used steroids

[cochrane]

New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodguez, baseball's highest paid player at $25 million per season, has admitted to using steroids from 2001-2003, when he was with the Texas Rangers, after the news had been leaked by Sports Illustrated. He said he had wanted to justify to himself that he was worth that kind of salary.

A-Rod's name was on a list of 104 players who had tested positive for steroids. The results were supposed to remain private and the users are not subject to discipline. He says he quit during spring training in 2003 and has not used them while with the Yankees.

"Back then it was a different culture," Rodriguez said. "It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive, and I wanted to prove to everyone that, you know, I was worth, you know — and being one of the greatest players of all time."

"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day."

"And I did take a banned substance and, you know, for that I'm very sorry and deeply regretful. And although it was the culture back then and Major League Baseball overall was very — I just feel that — You know, I'm just sorry. I'm sorry for that time. I'm sorry to fans. I'm sorry for my fans in Texas. It wasn't until then that I ever thought about substance of any kind."

In his first prime-time news conference, President Barack Obama called Rodriguez's admission "depressing" news.

"And if you're a fan of Major League Baseball, I think it tarnishes an entire era, to some degree," Obama said. "And it's unfortunate, because I think there were a lot of ballplayers who played it straight."

SI reported Rodriguez tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone.

The Yankees said in a statement that "we urged Alex to be completely open, honest and forthcoming" and that "we take him at his word that he was."

"Although we are disappointed in the mistake he spoke to today, we realize that Alex — like all of us — is a human being not immune to fault," the team said. "We support Alex, and we will do everything we can to help him deal with this challenge."

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[Blaze the Cat]

Well, no one commented on this yet, and I sorta follow baseball, so...

Believe it or not, I am not surprised. I suspected this all along, back when he was interviewed by whatshername back in 2007. He always did strike me as a capable steroid user. Lol, now we'll be calling him A-Roid or Alex Roidriguez.

Good thing I'm anything but a Yankees fan. If I were, I'd be disheartened. Still, this news was a bit disturbing, but I'm glad to see he at least apologized. He was quite emotional too. That's more than Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds have done. I think we should just move on. He's not the first to use steroids in baseball. It may be difficult to accept though.

[Cartman064]

Lets give it up for the New York Frauds

Staring A-Roid and Dereck Cheater

JK :lol:

[ShinobiShadowDancer]

A Roid hahaha, thats hilarious, nice.

Its cool I learned not one player on the Twins current roster tested positive for Performance Enhancement Drugs.

[gearsboy189]

i think they need to move on, there are so many other mlb players using roids.

[nate]

Its cool I learned not one player on the Twins current roster tested positive for Performance Enhancement Drugs.

Probably because not one player on the Twins current roster played major league ball in 2003 when they did the testing, but I don't know how you could know this because the Players Association hasn't released any of the names on that list. I'm looking at guys on my team that haven't technically been caught yet, guys like Paul Konerko and Jim Thome, and wondering what the heck the hold-up is.

Anyway, I've been calling him A-Roid since 2004 so I wasn't surprised when I heard this. Frankly, I was actually relieved. As far as I was concerned A-Rod was obviously cheating and I became increasingly alarmed as the entire baseball world bet their hopes on him, making this a bigger disaster than it needed to be. However, it's better for baseball that this came out now than when he was nearing one of the hallowed records. It would have been better still if he had been found out at the same time as the rest of the roiders, but what are you gonna do?

I wonder what happens from here. The next target is probably Albert Pujols now that A-Rod has made him the defacto baseball hero. In my opinion you have to keep on outing former users whoever they may be, and beefing up testing and penalties for current players or else nobody will take baseball seriously. Jim Thome is looking pretty silly to me with 541 homers and no asterisk. Besides baseball's legacy there's also the issue of the game as it is played on the field. It changed last year, it moved away from home runs and back toward defense and base running. To me that is what made last year a truly great year of baseball, one of the best I can remember. Hopefully the fans forget about Rodriguez tune in this year to see what real baseball is all about.

[ShinobiShadowDancer]

my local newspaper (star Tribune) had an article about it.

They found one person "Rondel White" who did test positive, however I dont bileve he is on the current roster. he probably in AAA right now.

[davless152000]

well the A-Rod steroids thing has been announced for almost 3 weeks now and i think hes gonna pay a fine since its been so long since he used them when no one had proof of him doing it back then i can also tell you this is no shocking of a yankee taking steroids or any other drug do we all remember strawberry his card is not worth crap since he did drugs but all i got to say is alot of baseball players thease years are steroids head and the father of that would be Mark Magiuer