Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003

[ecstatic]

In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated.

Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/07/alex-rodriguez-steroids/index.html

I really don't care, but my question is: Why was he protected and honored while Bonds was destroyed? :shrug:

[mr_hat]

1. A Rod's steroid use stopped short of

making a mockery of baseball's most important and long-held power stats.

Plus, BB is perceived to be the greater asshole.

[burythehatchet]

2. Every single statistic shold be stricken form the player's record. These clowns

are a disgrace to concept of sport.

[JonLP24]

3. I don't really care

When I took a class on "Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior." It said anabolic steroids does little to improve athletic peformance and then it said don't say that to the average sports fan or writer. The only problem about that text book is it didn't go further into explaining why it doesn't and I've never further researched the matter.

Though I don't really care what is going on, I was only a baseball fan during Griffey's prime. Other then that it bores me to tears.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. That could go a long way toward explaining his

“"Single White Female"-like obsession with Derek Jeter :evilgrin: