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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
Y'all might want to sit down for this (especially if you're a Yankees fan).
According to Sports Illustrated, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, his final year with the Texas Rangers when won both the AL Home Run title and AL MVP award. |
Well, he admitted to it. Not longer alleged, but confirmed by him.
Alex Rodriguez admits taking PEDs during 3-year period - ESPN
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Originally Posted by Rangers Owner Tom Hicks
"I feel personally betrayed. I feel deceived by Alex," Hicks said in a conference call, according to The Associated Press. "He assured me that he had far too much respect for his own body to ever do that to himself. ... I certainly don't believe that if he's now admitting that he started using when he came to the Texas Rangers, why should I believe that it didn't start before he came to the Texas Rangers?"
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Originally Posted by Alex Rodriguez
"Again, it was such a loosey-goosey era," Rodriguez said. "I'm guilty for a lot of things. I'm guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions. And to be quite honest, I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using."
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Excuses. This is a sad day. I never liked Rodriguez, even if I didn't bleed Red Sox red, I think he's a terrible sportsman and isn't a team player at all. This just goes to show the kind of person he is, no ethics and no integrity.