What happens to Alex Rodriguez now?
He’s been names as having failed a steroid test and admitted, as of today, to using them in the three years he played in Texas.
Has anyone else admitted like this?
Roger Clemens is still fighting allegations, even though there are needles with his DNA and steroids on them.
Jason Giambi apologized for “what he did” but never actually said what he did.
This has become and absolute joke. The “steroid era” of baseball, should be more aptly titled the “witch hunt era”. I don’t care who used steroids. I really don’t.
The people that complain that their children looked up to these players and would be influenced by them are obviously not being good parents and informing their children of the harms of doing drugs or even performance enhancing drugs.
If you’re doing your job as a parent, then you children won’t be doing drugs no matter what, because they know that drugs are bad, mmmmkay.
The other side of the “steroid era” had the baseball writers eliminating worthy members from the Hall of Fame, because they feel they’re “not worthy”.
These are obviously, old men that are pissed that records of long ago are being broken by players today.
What do you think Alex Rodriguez would have done to the same pitchers that Babe Ruth faced? There was no video, no scouting reports, no middle relief, specialty relief, closers, etc. There was a pitcher and maybe a closer. I’m sure that 99% of the players from that era wouldn’t be able to crack a major league lineup these days.
But, we hold these people up like they were gods. No one makes mention of the drugs that players were doing up until the 1990’s that gave them a bit of energy or a little more “pep in their step” as the writers like to call it.
Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using in the three years he was with Texas and he will obviously have his whole career scrutinized, but who cares really?
The guy has been one of the best of all time no matter where or when he plays.
Give it a break and forget about the fact that these guys have done it. Put the whole list of 104 players who failed out into the public eye and be done with it. Give them testing, and not random testing, but everyone.
Let them be tested 100 times a year if you want. It won’t change a thing. The players are still bigger, faster, stronger, and more skilled then they were 50 years ago. The only issue now is that folks don’t want to admit it.