A-Rod Admits Steroids
A-Rod is known for being the highest paid athlete in Baseball and probably the world as well. This third baseman is better known for being one of the greatest all around baseball players that has ever played the game! Now this is one monumental title to hold which explains most the pressure that this fantastic young player lives with on a day to day basis.
He was paid an astounding two hundred seventy five million dollars for a ten year contract! This means that it is crucial to be playing at his peak constantly throughout his career in baseball. This pressure eventually got to him through 2001 to 2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers. February of 2009 was when A-Rod admitted steroid use. In 2007 he blatantly lied about his steroid uses during an interview with Katie Couric.
In February of 2009 several reporters of Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for multiple types of steroids. He was positive for 2 anabolic steroids, testosterone, and primobolan. All of which are on the banned list of performance enhancing supplements.
The biggest cause for all the uproar was that in that same season he won: MVP, broke 300 career home runs in which he hit an astounding 47 in the season, and earned a Silver Slugger Award. Now this evidence was acquired by a anonymous survey which was comprised of willing Player’s. The test results were also government sealed. Out of the 1200 players tested, 104 major league players tested positive, one of which being the same Mr. Rodriguez. So A-Rod admitted steroids use, after all they had evidence to back this claim up.
But how did MLBPA find out from anonymous tests that were supposed to be destroyed? Well thanks to the BALCO investigation, in 2004 there was a federal raid of Comprehensive Drug Testing’s facility. After the raid the major league player’s drug samples were sent to Quest Diagnostics instead of being destroyed like they were intended for. And to make matters worse all the players that tested positive had their test results given to the MLBPA.
Yankees, Steroids, and A-Rod
Although A-Rod admitted steroid use throughout his 2001 to 2003 term with the Rangers, he has kept his word that he had been clean ever since playing for the Yankees. So you be the judge, just make sure to take in all the facts. A-Rod first denied all claims, until he was proved wrong by tests. So can you really believe him this time?
