A-Roid

A man whose integrity is much in question.

Well I turned on SportsCenter this morning and what was the first thing I heard? There are new allegations that Alex Rodriguez has tested positive for steroids in the past. You might think I, a lifetime Red Sox fan and a person who has taken issue with A-Rod's past acts, would be having a field day with this and jumping all over A-Rod.

But my issue is with the way that this information is always presented-flimsily, with little or no evidence and always with the use of the term "allegations". Another issue I have is with the fans associating this word with "guilty".

This data is from a 2003 test that was supposed to be anonymous (so much for that...) and honestly I don't really care right now. 2003? That was SIX years ago. A lot has happened in baseball and the rest of the world since then. Barry Bonds, the current home run king, has seen people demand that an asterisk be put on his 762, as he broke Hank Aaron's all-time home run record of 755 the last time he was in a god damn baseball uniform and not standing trial. Since the mid 1990s, players have been under scrutiny for steroids. Bonds was the center of attention for a while, but former Red Sox, Yankees, Blue Jays, and Rockets ace Roger "The Rocket" Clemens has picked up the torch. Roger has also faced other scandals recently including some crap with a 15 year old girl back in like 1932...who cares... Anyway, I never really liked Barry Bonds. He always seemed like kind of a jerk and was rude to the media. But it was nice to see him give love to his fans when he was put on the all-time Giants team. I didn't really think much of Roger either. By the time I started watching baseball, he had left Boston and gone to the dark side. But the fact that he was on the last World Series team for the Red Sox before the 2004 season and that he essentially led them there himself makes me respect him somewhat.

Alex Rodriguez came into the league at the age of 18 and was an all-star at age 20. People have predicted that he will far eclipse Bonds' current homerun record of 762. Of course his records are tainted because this is the steroids era and everyone is already guilty. Next thing you know, they'll accuse the Big Unit of steroid use. Rodriguez played on terrific Mariner teams with household names Ken Griffey Jr and the Big Unit, Randy Johnson. You may also remember sluggers Jay Buhner and Edgar Martinez. He was then traded to the Texas Rangers and given a 10 year, 250 million dollar contract. The Yankees picked him up somewhere halfway through. Yankees fans don't appreciate anyone and they certainly haven't appreciated A-Rod. I doubt their opinion of him is higher now.

Back to my argument that the way this shit is presented is absolutely bogus. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps got a DUI like 6 years ago and people talk about it like it's relevant. There was a photo of him released smoking weed out of a bong this past November. The people who take these photos are pussies and deserve torture worse than death. Just because your life sucks and you have no talent or future like Michael Phelps doesn't mean you can go ahead and ruin his life with gay tabloid bullcrap. Have fun with your fail life.

Reporters suck at presenting information that is relevant and up to date. All the steroid crap is "allegations, allegations, allegations". Until you can come up to me and say to my face that "So-and-so used fucking steroids," then your words are pure slander and libel. Or should I say utterly garbage, because although they may be technically correct, they offer no actual information to anyone. Because it's not a sure thing. Make DAMN sure you dumbasses do your job right and tell me that someone used steroids - grow some balls so that theirs may stop shrinking.

In any case, R.I.P. A-Rod's legacy.