Sports Illustrated Reports AROD Tested Positive for Steroids

[Invader3K]

Yeah, I agree. He should have just agreed to tell MLB everything he knew immediately, maybe getting some kind or promise that he wouldn't be punished if he divulged everything he knew. Now all this back tracking and denying are making his situation look worse and worse.

[endaround]

You mean the same MLB that was threatening to suspend him based on a test they promised would not lead to suspension? Yeah, that would be a good move. There is a reason ARod has been so evasive, Selig feels like grandstanding and there are legal consequences and withe Bonds case imploding again who knows whats next.

[Gobias Industries]

I think this whole thing has blown up in A-Rod's face. I think he really expected that he'd have a press conference, and it would all go away. But people are asking a lot more questions, and he's looking more and more idiotic in the process.

Why the hell wouldn't he expect it to go away? It happened to every other guy who admitted to it (Giambi and Pettite), and they were actually in the Mitchell Report, not in a supposedly confidential report that should have never got leaked to the public.

[craigharmann]

Why the hell wouldn't he expect it to go away? It happened to every other guy who admitted to it (Giambi and Pettite), and they were actually in the Mitchell Report, not in a supposedly confidential report that should have never got leaked to the public.

Giambi never really admitted to it, did he? I remember the vague press conference where he apologized, but never came right out and said it. From the highlights (or lowlights) of the press conference, it seemed that A-Rod didn't come off as genuine. Not that really seems all that genuine to me.

[Yeti73]

Coco is linked in there too. Not all that surprising considering his connections. Considering the economy and everything and the potential that he may have been artificially inflated even in recent years, I"m glad we don't have three years $30 mil left of him.

[Mr QL]

This should give Selig the authority to suspend A-Rod. Congress should have a word with him as well. He's worse than Clemens and Bonds.

[DougJones43]

I wonder what his cousin thinks about A-Rod throwing his identity out there like that. Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this pretty much make A-Rod a rat?

[fondybrewfan]

Arod is coming out looking like a tool.

 

1st the drug he took wasn't even available 2001-2003 at pharmacies in the DR, then it comes out this his cousin a notorious (and banned) trainer basically followed Alex around the entire 2007 season.

 

Arod isn't coming out of this smelling like daises right now thats for sure, more like the East River. Although I do hear swimming in the East River is wonderful for your back even if it does funk up your mattress.

[Bring Back the Stein]

You know how they claim that you can fall in love again in a marriage after the birth of a child or a new round of ED medication? Well, this has positively been Levitra for my hatred of the Yankees. I've fallen in hate all over again with them, combined with the CC thing, to levels I never thought possible. It may even surpass my tender feelings for the Cubs. Thanks A-Rod, for teaching me to properly hate the pinstripes again.

[Schlitz001]

Doesn't A-Rod have a lawyer or an advisor? It seems like he just made his situation a lot worse on a technical issue. Whenever a player is caught they confess to "trying it once" or passing the blame to a trainer or peer...."He told me it was B-12". Why can't they just fess up and tell the media exactly what happened. They are only digging a deeper hole for themselves.

[Bring Back the Stein]

If A-Roid was a criminal defendant, he would have violated about as many dicta as a lawyer could have figured to give him. His p.r. strategy indicates a STRONG belief that both the government and MLB will do nothing in response. People paid to say things on television will rattle their sabers, fans like me will boo their lungs out, politicians will tut-tut, prosecutors will make dire pronouncements, poor Bud will frown some more, but in the end...he will fill stadia, he may (dangit) win some championships and all this will amount to the foot-stamping of Rumplestiltskin. Here's to you, you cynical, unfairly-blessed-with-talent charlatan, you've won and the Sainted Gorman Thomas, who took nothing more than Luckys, Schlitz and maybe a little blow, will need to tour suburban convention halls, signing portraits, to make his nut. Life, and baseball, is not fair.

[RU Rah Rah]

He made the mistake, I think, of locking himself into a narrative. He would have been better off, in the long run, just saying, "I did steroids and I'm sorry."

 

Now, the issue isn't going to be A-Rod the steroid user; it's going to be A-Rod the liar. (Worse still, A-Rod the phony apologizer.)

[BrewCrewForever]

A-Rod has turned into a complete joke to me. Just a liar.

[T B0NE 10]

I'm confused with these new stories that have came out.

 

So basically A-Rod appears to be lying when saying he took roids only from 01-03? And that it appears he took them in 2007 too due the the links with that guy?

[JimH5]

Yes TBONE, that is correct. His cousin Yuri is the very guy that A-Rod said introduced him to "boli", that he injected from 2001-2003. Yuri stayed in the same hotel as A-Rod all of 2007, and stayed with Angel Presinal who has been banned from all MLB clubhouses for an incident in 2001 where steroids were found by Canadian airport authorities in Juan Gonzalez's bag. At the time, Presinal was working with Gonzalez, and Gonzalez said the drugs were Presinal's.

 

So A-Rod is staying in his own room, and Yuri and Angel are staying in another room--the whole season.