He made the right move admitting that he used. Im not sure hes going to find the same forgiveness Pettitte got however...
Yes, make it so inconvenient, no player would want to put in the effort to cheat. Each team is given a testing specialist, that specialist has a schedule drawn out for each player for a given month. Players will be tested on random days each week. Players that hit a home run in the game will be tested immediately after the game.
So A-Rod admitted to cheating during his 3 Texas years...Do we believe him? I'm skeptical, as some of his Yankee years reflect the same stats as the Texas ones. We'll probably never find out though.
Well I'm glad he admitted, because we saw how denying worked(Raffy, Bonds, Raja) Looking forward to the whole interview at 6.
My vision is significantly different. MLB should hire an independent firm to do the testing, and those testers should be randomly rotated all the time. Any regularity allows the introduction of bribery as a method of circumvention. (I don't mind the idea of testing after a game where a guy hits a homer, but that doesn't catch singles hitters who are cheating, and I'm sure they exist too.) Every single MLB player should be tested every two weeks. Also, a warning should be issued that if players are found trying to cheat the two-week system, it can go to as frequent as a daily basis. Don't like it? Find a new career. To put it simply, you either make it impossible to cheat without getting busted, or you just allow everyone to do it. I'm in favor of cleaning up the sport immediately and thoroughly.
^ Yeah you're right...you would need to rotate testers because they could formulate some empathy for the players they test and be susceptible to being impartial. Good point. Then each month the testing specialists rotate teams.
Couple things... Why did he steal "Loosey Goosey" from Mad Dog Russo??????? But when he "didn't know" what he took...Come on Alex. You knew what you took, you knew what it was, don't backtrack when you admitted that you cheated.
Not that I put it past anyone to blatantly lie (even when supposedly being truthful) at this point, but what if he didn't know? That's been said by a few different guys already. Think about that for a second. These guys, making tons of money, are putting shit in their veins simply on the word of some trainer under the premise that the guy is looking out for the player's best interest. Being stupid and naive athletes (and no one should ever accuse these guys of any great intellect) they go along for the ride. (Now this isn't to say they don't know they're taking a banned substance, just that they don't know the content of that substance.) I mean, WTF?!?! I've said it before, "How the F**K do you not know what you're putting in your body?!?!" But really, what if these dimwits really don't? Again, not that I'm saying they don't know they're taking steroids, just that they might not know what the composition of the steroid is. That's absolutely insane. I would never let someone put something in my body without knowing what it is, where it came from, and what the potential side effects are. This doesn't make Alex look any better. Just more stupid.
What they really need to do is establish a program where players piss and blood is collected, and stored for years to come.There's no way to be able to catch a guy on some new drug while it's new. If you can catch him 5 years after the fact though, it changes things. Ultimately though, that could go terribly wrong as well. We would probably end up hearing annually that player X,who had all those clutch hits in the post-season a few years back, has been caught using PEDs that were at the time undetectable. This is a huge problem, and it's not going away.
Does he get more credit because he admitted to more than anybody else now? The one thing I did read this morning was that Texas was the cesspool for steroids and that it went all the way back to Washington with the shit that team did.
I dont think he was backtracking, I think he was just stating that he knew what he was taking was a steroid, just not the name or scientific name for it. That is very possible.
This is like the scene from the movie Quiz Show. Van Doren is up in front of Congress getting kudos from most of the hearing committee for having the guts to stand up and tell the truth...then one of the guys says something like "I'm not going to congratulate you for having the decency to FINALLY tell the truth."
Yeah, but that is the American way..it may take longer for A-rod but eventually people will come around and cut him some slack.
That was a little bit before my time, but just exactly was so important about the integrity of quiz shows that necessitated congressional hearings? Wasn't there a country for those guys to be looking after?
What's so important about the integrity of sporting events that Baseball needs to have hearings to discuss steroids. In the grand scheme of life and governemt...Sports is the LAST thing they need to be worried about.
