I know it has been a long time since the last post. It has been almost a year and much has happened since then. The Giants won the Super Bowl. Brett Favre retired, came back, and retired again. The Mets collapsed again. I could go on and on . But if you had a pulse within the last 2-3 weeks the sports bombshell hit. The news broke as I was driving to work. I couldn't believe my ears. Alex Rodriguez tested positive in 2003 for performance enhancing drugs. This one hurts the most because A-Rod was looked at as the savior of the game. When he passes Barry Bonds for the all-time home run record, us fans and sports writers said that the record would return to being clean. But now there really is no escaping the fact he did steroids. People may forget for a while but when he comes closer to the record(and theres no doubt he will come close, if not pass it, barring some injury) the talks will begin about how they are tainted. The problem is Alex has had two times to come clean. I mean totally get everything out about what he did, and without missing a beat, he didn't. There are so many holes in this story. I was going to write about the "cousin" but in recent days "my cousin vinnie" has been found. But what gets me is, the drugs came into this country illegally, first off. So there will be some kind of investigation coming with that. Because now this is a federal case because now it deals with border security. Second, he got them, didn't think he was doing anything wrong, but didn't tell anyone about it. Now I realize that he might have said that so he didn't have teammates asking favors to get more of the drugs, but at 25 years old, you know what you are doing and getting yourself into. Third, he said he wasn't sure that he was taking them correctly, or what the effects were. You just signed a $252 million contract, how in the world do you not know what you are putting into your body and the effects that were to come out of it. But, lets say thats the truth, why would he keep doing it for 3 YEARS???? If anyone had a cough, and after 2 days you would throw the medicine out and get something else. Don't insult our intelligence by saying you didn't know what the effects where when you took them regularly. Steroids need to be taken in cycles. You don't take them when you feel like it. Fourth, why would Alex say when asked if he had any thoughts that this was wrong that he would say, "well i knew we weren't doing tic tacs". Now this point really hasn't been brought up and to be honest when I heard it, I didn't think much of it. But now that I think of it, wouldn't that be an indirect reference to pills. He said he was injected but, Pimobolin is ususally supplemented with testosterone. So maybe he was doing both.
Now this next part is a shot at the Yankees. I realize this coming from a Mets fan is a bit cliche because supposedly thats all we do. I had no problem with the Yankees saying Alex would do no one-on-one interviews, totally understandable. That press conference was tough enough. The problem I have is, NO FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS. And as a fan, that pissed me off. I don't want to be fed the excuse that there isn't enough time. All there had to be was one follow up question. As soon as that was said, the interview was almost not worth it. To me the Yankees are guilty of aiding and embedding.
Lastly as a side note: for all us non spanish speakers, what did that woman say. And why didn't it need a translation.
That is all see you next week.
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