Four separate sources have apparently told SI that AROD tested positive for steroids in 2003, when he won the AL MVP:
http://sportsillustrated....iguez-steroids/index.html
http://sportsillustrated....iguez-steroids/index.html
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Sports Illustrated Reports AROD Tested Positive for Steroids
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Posts: 11369 February 7, 2009 9:44 AM LambeauLeap.net President |
Mark Tauscher, MVP of the World.
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obsessedwithbrewcrew |
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Posts: 1583 February 7, 2009 9:57 AM The Weatherman
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Maybe it's wrong of me, but I'm excited to hear any news that might be bad for the Yankees. Hopefully this is the first of a number of bad events that
lead to the Yankees missing the playoffs again.
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Posts: 860 February 7, 2009 9:58 AM Chris Berman's Apprentice |
So that explains how he beefed himself up from a light-hitting shortstop to a power-hungry third-baseman. Also explains Madonna's attraction to him. Jose
Canseco-itis.
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Posts: 8712 February 7, 2009 10:12 AM |
Wow! I always thought he was clean. This will for sure taint some of his accomplishments. How does this not come out until 6 years later?
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Posts: 4171 February 7, 2009 10:20 AM |
Just another reason to hate the Yankees.
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Point Beer Is Best |
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Posts: 790 February 7, 2009 10:23 AM |
BrewCrewIn2004 wrote:In the article, it states that random testing was done in 2003 to determine if a steroid testing policy needed to be put in place in 2004. It was done confidentially. However, the lab that did the testing was raided as part of the BALCO case and the names are now known (but only AROD's has been released thus far).
Jack Donaghy: I'll have a white rum with diet ginger ale and a splash of lime.
Bartender: Sir, here's your Nancy Drew. Jack Donaghy. For men, it's called a Hardy Boy. |
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Posts: 1953 February 7, 2009 10:28 AM |
This sucks. I've always really liked A-Rod even though he was a Yankee. I'm sure many on this board got to see him play in Appleton -- he wasn't
there all that long, but you could tell at that time he was something special. I don't buy the 'light-hitting' shortstop Bush. His slugging
percentage was was .631 with 36 home runs in the bigs when he was 20 years old -- his first 'full' season in the bigs. I always had it in the back of
my mind though that given his power surge during his career he might have been on the juice.
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Posts: 431 February 7, 2009 10:37 AM |
Alas, it's possible that Ken Griffey Jr. will be remembered as the greatest CLEAN power hitter of the steroid era. There is justice there, but Yankees or
not, it's sad to see that A-Rod's ridiculous numbers are partially synthetic...
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Posts: 1039 February 7, 2009 11:00 AM |
And once again Jose Canseco is vindicated. Can people stop attacking that guy now? He's been pretty much 100% dead on with everyone he has accused. I also
wouldn't be surprised if we found out the Pujols has been on the juice or HGH since he was around McGwire before he retired. Whomever Canseco or McGwire
came in contact with they seemed to taint by providing an outlet for those players to also pick up the drugs.
Rp
"I hate all pitchers. Hits are my bread and butter. They're trying to take the bread and butter out of my mouth. I hate them." - Al Simmons, greatest baseball player ever from Milwaukee
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Invader3K |
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Posts: 4173 February 7, 2009 11:02 AM |
Honestly, I'm looking forward to hearing A-Rod get booed from now on. A pretty boy multi-multi-millionaire who used steroids, playing for the Evil Empire,
whose agent used to be Scott Boras. What greater villain can you have in sports?
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valpocrewsader |
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Posts: 1809 February 7, 2009 11:04 AM |
RayKingsForemanGrill wrote:Him and Frank Thomas. "Way back, way gone, grand slam Ryan Braun." |
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Posts: 1954 February 7, 2009 11:12 AM |
Honestly, I'm looking forward to hearing A-Rod get booed from now on. A pretty boy multi-multi-millionaire who used steroids, playing for the Evil Empire, whose agent used to be Scott Boras. What greater villain can you have in sports? To be honest, I don't understand this logic 100%. Pretty boy - Why? Who cares? This could be also said about some of the Brewers.
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Posts: 1650 February 7, 2009 11:27 AM |
go figure. he was always supposed to be one of those guys whom nobody really suspected of juicing. at this point, there's probably no name that would
surprise me anymore.
of course we've got a fan culture that is so anxious to pin anyone to drugs that you get even the smallest accusation and you're guilty for life. |
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Posts: 432 February 7, 2009 11:27 AM |
How about from now on they just make a breaking news report when they find out a guy is not on something? Sad for baseball that it seems almost everyone is.
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Posts: 4174 February 7, 2009 12:02 PM |
JJHardy7, you make good points and I'll agree with you on some of them. Like with the money, I won't deny that people should make as much as they can.
That's what America is basically built on...but if he cheated to get where he is now, that's another thing.
I haven't always been an A-Rod basher...don't like the guy necessarily, but I respect his ability. I was at the game at Miller Park when he hit his 400th homer, and I stood and applauded with everyone else. That said if he did do steroids, a lot of respect I had for him is now gone. The pretty boy comment ties into the stuff that Joe Torre has come out and said, that he sometimes seemed to care more about how he looked than what he was doing on the field. He just comes off as this prima donna Hollywood type. The average baseball fan isn't going to like that, one way or another. Anyway, I think the smartest thing for him to do is take the Giambi route and immediately admit that he did it, and apologize. Otherwise he's going to be hounded about this stuff for the rest of his career.
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Posts: 8714 February 7, 2009 12:49 PM |
Yup Griffey and Thomas the only clean great players of the steroid era. I used to really like A-Rod but now I'm ashamed of him.
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Posts: 4828 February 7, 2009 1:03 PM |
Everyone's making cracks about the "Evil Empire," etc (and don't get me wrong, I'm no Yankees fan), but to be fair, this happened when
A-Rod was a Ranger.
Glad DM wasn't in Texas at that point. My 2008 Milwaukee Brewers: "No meat...no meat." |
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Posts: 863 February 7, 2009 1:13 PM Chris Berman's Apprentice |
I was joking about the light-hitting part. The KID could mash at 18. But really, given his competitive nature (stories of him shagging groundballs for hours
before school in Miami....everyday), are we really that surprised? I will admit that since A-Rod was using, all but a very select few are fair game. As
mentioned earlier, this has to make Frank Thomas a HoFer, and possibly a first-ballot. His numbers are beyond reproach, as are Ken Griffey Jr's.
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BrewCrewIn2004 |
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Posts: 8715 February 7, 2009 1:23 PM |
I think Griffey is a 1st ballot no brainer and always has been. I thought it might take Thomas sometime. Not any more, Thomas should be in on 1st ballot as
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RU Rah Rah |
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Posts: 1687 February 7, 2009 1:30 PM |
I'm ambivalent about this. On the one hand, I've never especially liked A-Rod, and he plays for the Yankees, so some mean-spirited part of me is OK
with him getting tarred with this brush. On the other hand, this is horrible for the game as a whole, and it means we're looking forward to a
summer of renewed steroid mania. Given the Yankee angle, this is bound to dominate the next 10 months of baseball -- a prospect that makes my heart sink.
And just in case you were wondering if it's true -- this from the SI article itself: When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything." |
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Posts: 2154 February 7, 2009 1:50 PM |
I love that I heard this from the MLB network. I turned the channel on aroudn 1:40 to watch Randy Johnson's strikout game, and instead they have a special
breaking news segment talking about all of this.
However, ...I can't believe people would show up just to watch the Yankees play with themselves. - Monty57
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