A-Rod tested positive for steroids his MVP season in 2003

[switzersflask]

no, I meant he's legit just like Maris although it did take Maris more games to beat Babe's record.

Dangit.. just reading the Babe's name got me hungry for a hot dog and cold beer.

 

[Biggems]

I wonder if Alex Roidriguez trains with Shawne Merroidman

 

[Rampage]

I wonder if Alex Roidriguez trains with Shawne Merroidman

:laugh2: great idea to prevent people from asking who the chicks are in your sig

 

[Biggems]

:laugh2: great idea to prevent people from asking who the chicks are in your sig

it had gotten annoying...i almost deleted both, but then i thought, those pics bring so much joy and happiness to everyone....i will keep them

at least i am no longer getting asked in every thread i post in or getting PMed about who these two are.

Now all you hornballs are happy, and I am happy.

 

[FloridaRob]

selig should unilaterally decide that any player ever positively identified as steroid users should have all their records stricken from the record books. If a college team unknowingly has a player on their team that is not eligible, that team is forced to forfeit every game that player played in. If that team won a championship, their trophy is taken away. Selig should do the same thing. Petite and Clemens were users when the Yankees won a couple of World Series. Selig should take the cheaters trophies away. And if the runner up team had a user on them, then just don't have a champion that year.

It is not only time that Baseball cleans up the great historical record books we as kids grew up idolizing, but it is time he cleaned up the titles associated with the cheats. Maybe if the Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Angels, and even the Phillies last year with JC Romero knew they would have to forfeit the trophies they have won since the mid 90s, they would install their own necessary security to make sure it never happened again. In fact, maybe if they took away every title since steroid use became known, they would go a long way toward gaining the public trust again.

The record books should have Aaron and Maris as home run champions. Maguire, Bonds, A-rod, SAmmy Sosa, Roger Clemens, etc don't deserve to be mentioned with those guys.

I love baseball, but these primadonas only abuse the great legacy of a great sport.

It is no wonder the kids of today could care less about playing it....

 

[DaBoys4Life]

selig should unilaterally decide that any player ever positively identified as steroid users should have all their records stricken from the record books. If a college team unknowingly has a player on their team that is not eligible, that team is forced to forfeit every game that player played in. If that team won a championship, their trophy is taken away. Selig should do the same thing. Petite and Clemens were users when the Yankees won a couple of World Series. Selig should take the cheaters trophies away. And if the runner up team had a user on them, then just don't have a champion that year.

It is not only time that Baseball cleans up the great historical record books we as kids grew up idolizing, but it is time he cleaned up the titles associated with the cheats. Maybe if the Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Angels, and even the Phillies last year with JC Romero knew they would have to forfeit the trophies they have won since the mid 90s, they would install their own necessary security to make sure it never happened again. In fact, maybe if they took away every title since steroid use became known, they would go a long way toward gaining the public trust again.

The record books should have Aaron and Maris as home run champions. Maguire, Bonds, A-rod, SAmmy Sosa, Roger Clemens, etc don't deserve to be mentioned with those guys.

I love baseball, but these primadonas only abuse the great legacy of a great sport.

It is no wonder the kids of today could care less about playing it....

When did steriods become banned in baseball? I don't see how you can go back and take away stuff from people when you didn't have the rules in place..it doesn't seem like until recently that steriods have become such a huge topic in baseball.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Wow. I actually always thought he was one of the clean ones.

Well, this is it for me. To hell with that sport. They're all juiced.

I can't say I blame them though. Lets say I had some good baseball skills, enough to get me to the minors. All I have to do is juice and it could get me millions of dollars, fame and fortune. Yep, I'd do it too. Not saying its right, but I'd do it.

Have you ever seen him? He is HUGE. You don't get like that naturally. What also should have thrown a red flag is his home run totals.

1996: 36, 1997: 23, 1998: 42, 1999: 42, 2000: 41, 2001: 52, 2002: 57, 2003: 47, (steriod checks start),2004: 36, 2005: 48 (THG rumors) ,2006: 35,2007: 54,2008: 35.

Notice how spotty his stats were after the steroid checks? Remember that around late 2004 / 2005 THG (undetectable steriod) became a big issue in baseball. (THG is an undetectable steriod) R-Roid's stats go up, then steriod checks happen and his stats go down. THG appears and his stats go up again, there there are words that they've found ways to detect it and his stats go back down. The drug makers tweak the drug, and his stats go back up.

While I don't have hard knowledge of exactly what happen, his stats were on a roller coaster ride. That can happen when a player has injuries, but A-Roid had no injuries of that nature. He was using steriods and it damn sure didn't start when he got to Texas and it didn't stop when he left.

 

[YosemiteSam]

When did steriods become banned in baseball? I don't see how you can go back and take away stuff from people when you didn't have the rules in place..it doesn't seem like until recently that steriods have become such a huge topic in baseball.

It was ban in 1991, but there were no punishment for breaking the rules until 2004.

 

[Typhus]

The use of sports enhancing drugs is wide spread throughout the league, and anyone that is blind to that fact is , well, just blind.

There are several ways to beat the UA's , there are even products sold on the internet that enable you to beat a random, unanounced UA.

So basically in a nuttshell, its the morons that get busted.

Those that havent purchased the "insurance policy" so to speak, and prefer to gamble with the consequences of a positive UA, are the ones making the headlines for failing the tests.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Sports Illustrated has reported, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003. Rodriguez declined to discuss the tests when approached by SI on Thursday at a Miami gym. The New York Yankees star tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources told Sports Illustrated in a story posted Saturday on its Web site.

His name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in a 2003 baseball survey, the magazine said. He reportedly tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone while playing for the Texas Rangers.

Rodriguez declined to discuss the tests when approached by SI on Thursday at a gym in Miami, where he lives in the offseason.

"You'll have to talk to the union," he told a reporter. Calls from SI to union head Donald Fehr were not returned.

An e-mail from The Associated Press to Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras, was not immediately returned. The Yankees and Fehr had no comment.

In a December 2007 interview with "60 Minutes," three days after George Mitchell's report on drugs in the sport was released, Rodriguez denied using peformance-enhancing drugs.

"I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. ... I felt that if I did my, my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level," he said.

Rodriguez played for the Rangers in 2003, when he won the AL home run title and MVP award. He was traded to the Yankees in 2004. He is drawing a major league-high $27 million salary after signing a record $275 million, 10-year contract with New York in 2007.


The revelations come at a time when baseball's focus on drugs has concerned Barry Bonds and the legal maneuvering leading to the start of his trial March 2. The government is trying to prove the home run king lied when he told a grand jury he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.

Rodriguez until now has had an offseason dominated by talk of disclosures in Joe Torre's recently released book. The former Yankee manager wrote of the pressure A-Rod puts on himself and the third baseman's need to command the stage. Torre said some in the Yankees clubhouse referred to Rodriguez as "A-Fraud," although Torre made light of that during interviews promoting his book, "The Yankee Years."

Big surprise. Another huge name Baseball star admitting to cheating.

 

[Rampage]