So, A-Rod has admitted to using steroids for three seasons when he was in Texas. He says he felt pressure to perform. Well of course he felt pressure to perform. He was on a last place team and had been signed to the largest contract in the history of sports at $252 million. Is it disappointing to find out? Yeah...mainly because even with the performance enhancers the Rangers were still in last place every year. Maybe there shouldn't be any punishment for A-Rod because I don't think the steroids did their job.
It's hard to be shocked or appalled by this news really. I mean, it isn't like he is the only one from this era in baseball to be juiced. I think that it is getting to be where many in the public will just assume that all the players at this time were taking something. It's sad really. There is the thought that if the players would just come clean about what they had done the public would be forgiving of them. The problem that the public has is that we don't like to feel lied to. Makes it much harder to be trusting and forgiving about the matter.
Finally, I have to say that I agree with Curt Schilling on this issue. He wrote on his blog 38 Pitches that there was a list of 104 players that were to have tested positive at the same time as A-Rod. If they are going to release his name, then they need to release the names of everyone else that is on that list. I'm not a huge A-Rod fan (I think Texas overpaid and he made the team better when he finally went to the Yankees), but it's not fair to target him for positive testing when there are at least 103 others that had the same result. Don't target him just because he is a superstar. If you are going to throw him out there, then do the same with the rest of the list. After all, he wasn't the only one to get caught. He made a mistake, even if he knew he what he was doing. It's only fair. Peace and Love y'all.
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