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March 2009
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Yankees third baseman Alex Rdriguez says the truth will set you free and since Sports Illustrated caught him in the lies he's been telling about his steroid use now he's decided to tell the truth. Not all of it, not nearly enough of it, but Rodriguez says he did use steroids when he played with the Rangers in the early part of the decade. He says that big contract was a reason, the heat in Texas another. There's something we hadn't heard before. Steroids make you bigger, faster and cooler. Who knew? Baseball's list of those who cheated the game just keeps getting longer and now we can add the name of Alex Rodriguez Rodriguez isn't facing any penalties here. He was caught in a test that was supposed to be kept confidential. Obviously it's not, but baseball didn't really want to do anything then and they still don't. Rodriguez admitting that he did use steroids did surprise me. Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did. I'm not gonna be surprised anymore by anybody, on any team. And that's another one of the real tragedies in this scandal. Everybody's guilty until proven innocent. It's not supposed to be that way but it is. Alex Rodriguez was gonna be the guy who would take all the records back from those who had cheated the game and they did cheat. The argument that baseball didn't have a rule against steroids doesn't work. Baseball doesn't have a rule against shooting the pitcher in the middle of his wind up. There's no rule on the book that says you can't stab the second baseman trying to break up a double play. But what's illegal in America is illegal in baseball and using steroids from Biff the trainer is and always has been illegal. Rodriguez and the others knew it, that's why they've always denied it. And now baseball has been denied yet again the opportunity to restore the integrity the game needs if it's going to possibly achieve the greatness it once had. The records Alex Rodriguez will break are tainted and now his records will be too. A lot of baseball fans say they don't care about the players who cheat, but baseball knows they have a bigger problem a lot of us just don't care about baseball anymore. Baseball will tell you it's doing fine now because a lot of people who look like me still love the game, but the baseball fan is a graying fan. If baseball is really looking to the future they can't plan on a future with guys who look me because we don't have a long one and i'm beginning to think baseball doesn't either. (VIDEO: Watch Dale's rant here.) 14 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Preach on Brother Hansen...
Geez Dale, take a look on the bright side. A-Rod has just been a tremendous spokesperson for one of the most important life long messages to kids everywhere: A cheat and a liar - it's the same thing.
What I would like to know is why the professional sports associations do not have clauses in the contracts of these players that clearly state no drugs...ie, no steroids, no pot, no pills (unless on a predetermined list okayed and verified), no foul behavior outside of the locker room that would look badly on the team, owners and city/state they are being paid to represent. Fines no longer do the trick. These over-paid jerks just pay the fine and continue on their merry way as if nothing happened. Enough is enough.
If he(A-Fraud) is really serious that he is sorry for what he did while here, lets see him do these things 1st) He comes back to this city/market and Personally apoligizes to Texas for his behavior. 2nd)he returns ALL of Tom Hicks Money that he "earned" while in Texas. 3rd) he removes all stats from his records that he "earned" while in Texas. Lets see if he is that sorry.
Why surprised? It is a cultural phenomenon. No. 1 is worth the price, no matter what that means. And that is all that matters. From the board rooms to the diamond to the gridiron, the checks say it all. Success is rewarded, virtue demeaned. So, "everyone does it" has become the stamdard of values for our society. And, "Let it all hang out" is good. Sorry, Dale, your gray is showing. The New Age has confronted your antiquated world view relegating it to No. next, et cetera.
Nothing has changed. A-Rod to A-Fraud. He will still one day be placed in Baseball's Hall of Fame just like Michael Irvin was. Shameful. I remember having 3 posters in my shop for my 3 young sons to look at - Aikman, Smith, and Irvin. Then came the plate with cocaine, hooker in tow. Shameful. Where is he now? On TV, still pimpin' around and in the same place A-Fraud will be 10 years from now (or less) - only in a different building. I never liked A-Fraud anyway. He needs to go back to school and learn the english language.
YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE...A-ROD'S NEW NAME.......A-ROID. RIMSHOT!
Now he has a NEW nickname! A-roid!
I see this as a victimless crime - if Mark McGuire, Roger Clemens and A-Rod want to inject themselves with drugs that are foreign to the human body with impacts still unknown I really don't care. Where is the outrage over athletes who beat their wives, stalk their girlfriends, create children they don't pay for or contribute to in building character, carry guns and shoot them off in public places like nightclubs and the character building strip clubs. THESE are the idiots and psychopaths in athletics that really bother me.
If your kid is making decisions in their lives based on A-Rod and others, you are not close enough to your child. Rid athletics of the criminals who hurt people and break families - not someone who shot themselves with chemicals that may give them 3 heads one day!!!!
VERY ORIGINAL JILL
When are they going to do after the owners? Start with Bush and then Hicks. I don't buy that they didn't know anything about this. That locker room has been dirty for a long time. Get the ones that profited the most from it. Why didn't the government subpoena the owners? I wonder how many of them would perjure themselves?
The sparest of the three major sports is chock full of cheaters and liars. Their record book now qualifies as a work of fiction.
Stop watching and supporting - I have.
ex rangers fan:
a-roid was out long before you decide to claim it as your own original, but nice try. even better, bag on someone who stole what you stole.
The bottom line on this is money, lots and lots of money. Multi million dollar contracts for the players AND the owners. Very good people have done very stupid things for a very long time for money. Don't be too hard on them Dale, we bought the tickets to watch the monkey put on a show.