Because of the drugs you see! I am referring to baseball and today's confession, to yesterday's hot story. Alex Rodriguez (New York Yankee Third Baseman) admitted that he did take steroids between 2001-3. And that he did lie about it during a TV interview. Oh the uproar!
What do people expect? Baseball is clearly, and has been for some time, riddled with players who have used steroids to enhance their abilities. Like a superhero power but one that makes your dick shrivel up. It is no surprise that people want to be stronger, quicker, recover faster from injury, these things can make the difference between $5 and $20 million a year. And don't get me started on homers, we all know that chicks dig the long ball.
Rodriguez should be upset with himself. He was arguably the best player in baseball and lots of people adore him (lots of people also hate him and they are licking their lips about this revelation) and he will no doubt lose some of his endorsements, fans, and a surefire place in the Hall of Fame. But he must be pissed with the MLB. The results of the test he failed were supposed to be anonymous and A-Rod was tested (alongside 103 other players) just so that the authorities would know the percentages of players using. No one was supposed to be punished!
But now A-Rod will be punished. He should lose some credibility because I think that sports should be played on even playing fields. Cheats should be dealt with harshly as we all want to know that the best players can do what they do because of their natural talent, not because of what animal hormone or growth serum their dealer is shooting them up with. But it is the baseball authorities that should be most appalled by this. They have repeatedly dropped the ball on the issue of steroids for the last decade. They clearly have no grasp at all on how to stop people from cheating, how to punish them, even how to keep some test results under wraps! They have been a shambles. Apparently Bud Selig, the commissioner, gets like $17 million a year which is a f*cking disgrace. If I was A-Rod I would be suing the MLB for loss of future earnings because he has not been punished by them, and wont be, but he will be hung in the court of public opinion. I have no time for drug cheats but I have even less time for incompetence and stupidity and the MLB have been both.
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