So my second favorite baseball player admitted to using steroids yesterday… shoot. If you’ve never heard of Alex Rodriguez, he’s widely considered the most talented player in all of baseball, not to mention the highest paid position player.
He publicly apologized unlike nearly everyone else, and takes all the blame for his actions. He claims to have been clean since 2004, which I choose to believe. However, no one seems to agree on whether to trust him or not. In an interview in 2007 he sternly renounced using any kind of performance enhancing drug, and now he admits to using them…
His reasons for taking the drugs as well as lying are admittedly understandable in my eyes, however there are no excuses for doing such a thing. He has all the talent in the world and is easily on pace to break the Home Run record and numerous others, which he probably would be in line to break even if he hadn’t taken the drugs, he’s that good. Also, his stats don’t seem to peak at any time period, so it’s hard to be sure how much steroids could really have helped him. A-Rod had it paved, but the pressure to take performance enhancing drugs and to be the greatest ever can sometimes be too much.
I acknowledge Alex for at least seemingly being truthful, good luck to him in the future.
This is Scarface signing off.
