Alex Rodriguez Goes From "A-Fraud" To "A-Roid"

According to a report on the Sports Illustrated website, Alex Rodriguez, the homerun hitting third baseman for the New York Yankees tested positive for anabolic steroids in 2003. That was when baseball granted players immunity while it conducted survey testing with the hope that the number of cheaters would be low and the performance-enhancement problem would go away.

In that report, 104 major leaguers were identified as having tested positive. At the time, the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) guaranteed the players that the results of that "survey" would be kept confidential with no chance of it ever being released to the public.

This is more bad press for Alex following the assertion in Joe Torre's book "The Yankee Years" that his Yankee teammates nicknamed him "A-Fraud" and that he had a "single-white female"-like obsession with Derek Jeter.

Rodriguez reportedly tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone while playing for the Texas Rangers, but does really matter where it was, or when or for how long? Unless he or baseball, or both, can effectively counter another damaging blow, Rodriguez takes his place in the ever-expanding enhancement holding pen, a shadow cast across his career

No word yet from A-Roid or his agent, Scott Boras, in regard to the SI report.
It will be interesting to see what stance A-Roid will take on the matter. Will he come clean like Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitt or will he go the way ala Mark McGwire and Roger Clemens and deny, deny, deny.

It's obvious that steroids in Major League Baseballwill not go away!

Despite all-things-A-Roid, the Yankees are contractually obligated to Alex Rodriguez until 2018 and will have to put up with the distraction.

I wonder what Madona thinks about all of this?

source:nytimes.com

Torre's "Yankee Years" Swings At Rodriguez, Cashman and the Yankees

Joe Torre, the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers takes some harsh swings at Alex Rodriguez, Brian Cashman and the Yankees in a book due out early next month.
The "Yankee Years" reveals that Alex Rodriguez was called "A-friend" by his teammates and that Alex developed an obsession with shortstop Derek Jeter. Torre, coached the Yankees from 1996 to 2007, says he was betrayed by Brian Cashman, the Yankees longtime General Manager.
Torre's book is co-authored by Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci. It is due out on February 3, 2009 and is being published by Doubleday. The book is not a first-person account, but instead is written in a third-person narrative based on interviews with Yankees players, coaches and employees.
Torre, who was loved by the Yankees fans, took the Yankees to 4 World Series titles between 1996 and 2000. But in 2007 he was offered a one-year contract with a significant paycut after George Steinbrenner handed control of the team to his son Hank.
According to Verducci. "the book really needs to be read in context", "...Anybody who know Joe, especially during his time in New York, knows he's a very honest man and he is very honest in the pages of this book".
Joe Torre will go down in Yankee lore as one the most successful and the most popular Yankee manager in New York Yankee history.