According to Sports Illustrated today, A-Rod tested positive for steroids back in 2003 when he was with the Texas Rangers. Is anyone really surprised? My take on the events is below. You can view the article on ESPN right here.
The thing is, the MLB brought this upon themselves. Baseball was in rough shape after the strike, and they needed a way to get the fans back into it.
Players started juicing to get better so they could get bigger contracts (but smaller dicks). The MLB obviously could see guys like McGwire and Bonds and Gay-Rod and Griffey (just kidding) changing from skinny guys like me to big bad bruisers. Guys who normally could only hit 10-20 homeruns a year were suddenly hitting 40-50. The Sosa/McGwire chase of Maris' record was great for baseball - financially.
And with a $17.5 million annual salary, I'm sure Bud Selig was more than happy to turn the other cheek.
Now that the steroid users and abusers are being nailed in the media, it's easy for the MLB to say that they never knew what was going on the entire time, and to start slapping penalties on these guys.
Off-topic, I don't think Roger Clemens' biggest fault should be that he stuck a needle in his ass a couple of times.....it should be that he stuck his weiner in Mindy McCready when he was married, and she was only 16.
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mmmm Mindy McCready.
ReplyDeletei wonder how many juiced players are in the NFL? Probably most of them. There drug policies are a total joke, plus they are some of the biggest meanest bitches on the planet.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that is a tough one........it's so much harder to judge strength in the NFL, in my opinion, over the MLB. In the MLB, it's easy to track that A-Roids was averaging about 30 hr's a year PRE-STEROIDS, but almost 50 hr's a year DURING the time he was taking steroids. And you can also look at slugging percentage as a key.
ReplyDeleteIn the NFL, how are you going to tell simply by stats? More tackles? More sacks? More receptions? Those are all athletic abilities that aren't helped a lot by 'roids.......the intangibles are the things that are helped (like a nose tackle being able to take on 2 offensive lineman in a 3-4 defense)......but then again, some of those guys are just fat and strong, so who knows.
I'm sure there are steroids in the NFL, but I can't figure out WHY the NFL isn't subject to the same scrutiny as the MLB in that regard. Maybe it is because baseball has always been more of the 'wholesome, all American' game - whereas the NFL always has been and always will be more about entertainment and 'shock' value, in a way.