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
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