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Alex Rodriguez admits using steroids
Topic Started: Feb 9 2009, 05:30 PM (199 Views)
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NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-2003, ESPN is reporting.

Those were the first three seasons of Rodriguez's then-record 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez won his first AL MVP award in '03, his last year with the Rangers, before being traded to the Yankees prior to the start of the 2004 season.

On Saturday, Sports Illustrated broke the news that Rodriguez had tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003. When reached for comment at a Miami gym last Thursday, Rodriguez told an SI reporter "You'll have to talk to the union" and "I'm not saying anything."

During the interview with ESPN's Peter Gammons, Rodriguez said, "When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure, felt all the weight of the world on top of me to perform and perform at a high level every day. Back then, it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young, I was stupid, I was naive and I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth, you know, being one of the greatest players of all time. And I did take a banned substance. For that, I'm very sorry and deeply regretful. And although it was the culture back then in major league baseball overall ... it was very ... I just feel that ... I'm just sorry. I'm sorry for that time, I'm sorry to my fans, I'm sorry to my fans in Texas. It wasn't until then that I thought about substance of any kind, and since then I've proved to myself and to everyone that I don't need any of that."

When asked if his usage took place from 2001-2003, Rodriguez said, "That's pretty accurate."

Gammons then asked, "What kind of substances were you taking?"

Rodriguez responded, in part, "It was such a loosey-goosey era. I'm guilty for a lot of things, for being negligent, naïve, not asking the right questions. To be quite honest I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using."

Rodriguez tested positive for testosterone and Primobolan, an injected or orally administered drug. According to SI's report, Primobolan "is detectable for a shorter period of time than the steroid previously favored by players, Deca-Durabolin."

Steroids have been banned in baseball since 1991, but there was no testing for it until 2003, when survey testing was done to determine if the game needed to adopt a permanent testing policy. Rodriguez's name was on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. There were no penalties for players who tested positive and the names of those players were supposed to remain anonymous, but federal agents, using search warrants, seized those test results from one of the two labs MLB had used in connection with the '03 testing as part of the government's BALCO investigation.

According to the Mitchell Report, which investigated steroid use in Major League Baseball and was released in late 2007, Gene Orza, the chief operating officer of the players union, tipped off a player about an upcoming drug test that was supposed to be unannounced, violating an agreement with MLB. That player was not named in the report, but three major leaguers told SI that Rodriguez was also tipped by Orza in early September 2004 that he would be tested later that month. The MLBPA refused that claim on Saturday. When asked about it by an SI reporter last week, Orza said, "I'm not interested in discussing this information with you."

In a 2007 60 Minutes interview with Katie Couric, Rodriguez flatly denied ever taking steroids. "For the record, have you ever used steroids, human growth hormone or any other performance-enhancing substance?" Couric asked.

"No," said Rodriguez. "I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no."

In 2000, his last year in Seattle, Rodriguez batted .316 with 41 home runs and 132 RBIs. In 2001, his first season in Texas, Rodriguez set a career high with 52 home runs while batting .318 with a .622 slugging percentage, the second-highest number of his career. The following season, he established a new career high with 57 home runs, adding 142 RBIs and a .623 slugging percentage. In 2003, he dropped to .298 with 47 home runs and 118 RBIs and a .600 slugging percentage. In 2004, when Rodriguez says he was not taking any performance-enhancing drugs, he hit .286 with 36 homers, 106 RBIs and a .512 slugging percentage and .375 on-base percentage. The latter two numbers were his lowest single-season marks since 1999.

Rodriguez has won three American League MVP awards, in 2003, 2005 and 2007. He is a two-time Gold Glover and a 12-time All-Star.

Rodriguez was traded to the Yankees in February 2004. After the 2007 season, he opted out of his contract before signing a new 10-year deal that, with incentives, could be worth over $300 million. Two sources familiar with the contract told SI that there is no language about steroids in the contract that would put Rodriguez at risk of losing money.
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Hah fluke seasons.

MLB should strip his mvp award and at the least suspend the little fuckwad indefinitely.
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if they take away his MVP they have alot more work to do with all the others.
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I am not even a big baseball fan and I could tell he used roids just take a look at him. Not to mention he didn't exactly admit it he didn't come out of nowhere and say he used. He only came out because it is a proven fact he used otherwise he would deny like he always has.
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Nate
Feb 9 2009, 06:03 PM
I am not even a big baseball fan and I could tell he used roids just take a look at him. Not to mention he didn't exactly admit it he didn't come out of nowhere and say he used. He only came out because it is a proven fact he used otherwise he would deny like he always has.
That or he thinks people will look at him and think its alright because this happened like 5 or so years ago.

I hope this :fag: gets what's coming to him. Really cant stand him.
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there was a guy I worked with that said he hopes Alex breaks the home run records so someone deserving and someone who doesn't need steroids could have it again. I laghed at him then and said you might want to find someone else then because Alex is a user. He always disagreed I wish I knew where he was now I would love to see what he has to say lol.
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Thought about this today he could go a long way in the eyes of many people if he agreed to drop all of his stats from those three years. That would be unheard of in today's society. Would he pass Bond's record, most likely no, but he would really repair his image to a lot of people and he could still make the HOF.

I know he would never do this but it is just a thought.

If they catch Bonds then the record should go back to Hank, I know he played more games than Ruth but it is a career award not just the best power hitter of all time award which is clearly Ruth -- the man had an eye and strength that was unparalled for baseball from what I can tell.
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How this is news is beyond me. A baseball player from the 90s-00s took steroids, well we have to stop the presses.
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Better than Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens who denied these things and lied in court
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gives a new meaning to a-fraud lol.. but you cant be stripping these guys of their awards and records because at the time it was perfectly legal becuse there were no rules prohibiting performance enhancing drugs
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I preffer A-Roid
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Orangesmoke20
Feb 10 2009, 11:52 PM
gives a new meaning to a-fraud lol.. but you cant be stripping these guys of their awards and records because at the time it was perfectly legal becuse there were no rules prohibiting performance enhancing drugs
Haven't Steroids been illegal for a while now. I'm not talking about by MLB either. Also you think these guys would have a little respect for the game. I mean I know MLB was struggling (but the game would have survived) and supposedly the long ball saved the game and the owners and MLB knew about the drugs and now they want to crack down on the players so nobody is clean not even the fans who wouldn't go to games unless they saw the HR. They knew it was wrong and chose to do it, so they should forfeit their stats of the time period they were doing drugs.
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Yeah, but there is no way to know when it started or if it has ended. You could lose 20+ years of baseball history if you do that.
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McLarenCrazy
Feb 11 2009, 11:20 AM
Haven't Steroids been illegal for a while now. I'm not talking about by MLB either.
illegal by law unless perscribed by a doctor but there were no rules in mlb banning them
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Lock them all up then. That'll teach them.
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Needs to be a 1 strike rule. Get caught, your done. Simple
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I think they should change the policy MLB has now. 1 time = 50 games 2 times = 100 games 3rd time = life ban. It should be changed to a two strike policy 1 time = 162 games and 2 times = life ban. I mean people make mistakes also there should be an exception clause in there if a player takes a substance that may not be a PE but is banned but doesn't know it is illegal. Like the guy who recently got a 50 game suspension after asking the union was the substance okay, and they told him yes then he got caught because they didn't look into the substance very much.
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Feb 11 2009, 11:31 AM
Yeah, but there is no way to know when it started or if it has ended. You could lose 20+ years of baseball history if you do that.
Yeah, no I mean't the players should come out (at least the one's caught) and remove their stats not MLB. I mean that is totally idealistic and never going to happen just my opinion.
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But to do that you'd have to recalculate everyone elses stats just to compensate for those missing ones. Although baseball people like numbers and this would give them plenty to do.
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Feb 11 2009, 03:42 PM
I think they should change the policy MLB has now. 1 time = 50 games 2 times = 100 games 3rd time = life ban. It should be changed to a two strike policy 1 time = 162 games and 2 times = life ban. I mean people make mistakes also there should be an exception clause in there if a player takes a substance that may not be a PE but is banned but doesn't know it is illegal. Like the guy who recently got a 50 game suspension after asking the union was the substance okay, and they told him yes then he got caught because they didn't look into the substance very much.
3 chances are 1-2 many.

I like the two strike and you're out policy.

And to make a point I would make the first strike a whole MLB Season suspension. 2nd strike, your ass is outta here.
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:lmao: At #8

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lmao the phelps stuff was good too
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Feb 11 2009, 04:02 PM
But to do that you'd have to recalculate everyone elses stats just to compensate for those missing ones. Although baseball people like numbers and this would give them plenty to do.
And it may keep Oswalt from shanking a man. :hide:
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All you gotta do is give his opponent a bat in October, he seems to be powerless at that time. :shifty:
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