Buffalo Boy's Blog

I knew A-Rod was a jerk long ago, despite that, I still believed he was one of the clean ones. No way does he do the juice. Thats why the other day while I was getting onto the stationary bike at the gym and ESPN scrolled the news that A-Rod has been implicated as a 'roid user I stopped doing what I was doing and allowed my jaw to drop.

I'm hearing a lot of things about this too. There are some who are willing to give him a pass, he apologized and move on. However, unlike the Michael Phelps deal, A-Rod took performance enhancing drugs  He cheated. He cheated for three years. For him to go on saying that he was naive and stupid or what ever words he used to put himself down is a big line of crap.

He did them for three years! Young and stupid is taking them once or twice and then coming to your senses. He went on to say that his reasons for doing steroids was because of the pressure of playing in Texas......TEXAS! HE PLAYS IN NEW YORK!!!! New York is the biggest pressure cooker in all of sports. So what makes anyone believe that after he left Texas he felt any less pressure while playing in NY? He had the same contract, signed a new, even more ridiculous contract and stayed in NY. Hes trying to make us believe that he left Texas, felt less pressure and therefore stopped taking steroids upon coming to New York? 

He's an idiot is what he is. There really is now no player you can trust in baseball. Bonds and A-Rod would have been two of the greatest players in the history of baseball without the drugs. The fact is they cheated and now we will never know. They should never come close to the Hall of Fame. Never. They have to pay to get in as tourists.

He didn't know what he was taking? How stupid do these athletes think we are? You take them for three years, you know exactly what you are taking. Please. Then to plead to Gammons that he wants the baseball writers to reconsider when they vote him in? Just for that Gammons should have walked out of the room. He is so insincere its sickening. 

What makes this thing with A-Rod sweet though is it has come out while he is with the Yankees. The Yankees are stuck with him Their greed has brought with it the crap and dirt that superstardom breeds in professional sports. A-Rod will probably get to and surpass the home run records, the true record that Aaron holds and the false one that Bonds holds. He will do so with no fanfare what so ever. He will do so to boos, negativity and shades of doubt circling the achievement. 

I would go one step further, MLB should suspend him for a season. Yes its 4 years too late, but make an example of your best player. Your supposed best player.He lied to the fans with Katie Couric, telling the public he didn't need the drugs to do what he did, obviously he did and for that he should be suspended and punished by the sport. That would send a message that no one is exempt whether you did it 5 years ago or today.