Comments on: A-Rod: I've Never Used Steroids

Tells Katie Couric He's Never Been Tempted To Use Performance-Enhancing Drugs

[pilgrimsway-2009]

Why has this list all of the sudden comes out now? Why? I think because someone was found guilty in the first place. Remember He does not want to lose His records that he broke through steroids so now everyone else is named so everyone else is to blame. Thus he gets to keep his HR records. Home run records!

[mojowoods]

Katie, you are not the only person on television who mispronounces the word "asterisk." But, why do so many ignore the second "s" and pronounce it "asterick?" I believe you said there is and "asterick" beside Barry Bonds'' name for all time home run leader. Just an FYI for you. Katie, you should know better! Marilyn Woods

[r345]

Leave A Rod Alone. He is the best ballplayer I have ever seen.

[hypnotoad72]

Oh good, I just noticed people ARE commenting on "the other article":

When will Sgt **** break up with his BF, find another person to BF, get AIDS, and manage to spread it while on duty? (technically feasible if his blood is shed).

60 Minutes had a doozy last year with the interviewer slamming the one guy for having to make split second decisions (it''s a war, like it or not!), but this time it''s mostly level-handed. Except for hyping up the "medic" part before the G-word was stated. The risk exists, like it or not, and if he does it with the wrong guy or if his "special" friend cheats on him (common enough for their "community"), it''s an outbreak in the making.

I did like how the guy speaking against *** in the military wore civilian clothes and ensuring his stance was not to be seen as an "official" viewpoint.

[hypnotoad72]

How come that other 60 minutes article can''t be discussed?

Also, A-Rod didn''t hear Bonds had admitted steroid use? So what''s up with the dumb line "innocent until proven guilty", while propping up Bonds over Hank Aaron? No wonder people call him ******...

[harrydoghiny]

And this is news...because?
How about reporting on the 50 or so scandals currently embroiling the Bush administration?

[lucasnico]

the ticket you bought was for a baseball game.... to be entertained. there''s nothing in the contract about steroids.....relax, shoebox, because nobody cares

[craigflorida]

Canseco was blackballed from baseball. That says it all. They hate whistle blowers. Ask Giambi who was severely threatened because he suggested baseball should come clean.

Canseco is the most credible person of all. Moreover, he knows a thing or two about steroids. He was a pioneer in its use!

[craigflorida]

Canseco has proven much more credible than just about every player AND SELIG and the owners. He got blackballed from baseball. That says it all.

They hate whistle blowers. Ask Giambi. When he said everbody including MLB should come clean. SELIG went beserk. Come clean? Not he, the steroid commish whose family made millions because of the effect roids and short fences and small strike zones had in altering the game of baseball and blowing out all the Homerun and strikeout records!

[samthetvcat]

concerned_2, not sure but I took it as him assuming you were a guy (?) :o

[concerned_2]

To mksh21 ... Your comment was so expected from what seems like a response from a closed minded person. But then again.... you sound like you need to think about what you said... "slip off your horned rim glasses, sip your whine and make out with your boyfriend. Freaking liberals" Hmm,... let me guess... the part about making out w/ my boyfriend... You must think of women as all being like the presidents special lady friends like Monica, Marilyn... the list goes on. I simply stated The government can use the saying "BE ALL YOU CAN BE". But the athletes can''t act upon it?... That''s kinda like being told "Think like the government or don''t think at all" Besides, I''m the Mother of a U.S. Marine that is in Iraq. Plus I have 4 nephews & 2 cousins that are over there in Iraq right now. I want all of our loved ones home NOW!

[mksh21]

concerned_2, slip off your horned rim glasses, sip your whine and make out with your boyfriend. Freaking liberals

[concerned_2]

Go Figure.... The Government themselves boast a saying "BE ALL YOU CAN BE" Maybe the athletes were trying to do just that. Well, I guess that the saying "BE ALL YOU CAN BE" only applies to the government trying to get more of our citizens to enlist into the service to fight in wars that should never have went on as long as they have. Bring our loved ones home! Heck, maybe they should check all the Old Codgers on capital hill for Viagra... You know... the other Growth Drug! lmao

[samthetvcat]

PS What about Derek Jeter? He seems like he''s clean, you think? And Cal Rikpen (?)

I guess there''s different degrees too, the biggest abusers being those (LOL) puffy 40-yr old ''power'' hitters/pitchers - Bonds, McGuire, Clemens, then there might be some occasional dabblers (?) Yeah, better testing would be great, and maybe some statistics person ought to look at the player profiles and see if any of the players have odd stats . . .

And yeah if tickets weren''t already so out of my price range, I''d be really ticked (lol) . . .

[samthetvcat]

Anybody know whether Jose Canseco ever played on the same team with A-Rod or had any trainer connection of any kind?

I don''t know what to think of Canseco''s credibility - like is he just a disgraced player trying to redeem himself by cleaning up baseball, or is it that since he got taken down he wants to take everybody he can with him - the whole game of baseball, as well as the star player with the big buck$? Like maybe he needed to stay close to the truth to show that he was being ''honest'' but now that he''s been proven right he might feel he can just bring up names because it''s impossible to prove a negative (that one has never taken steroids) and he ''wins'' just by casting that doubt?

And is this the first time Canseco''s ever brought up A-Rod''s name? Did he implicate him to Sen. Mitchell''s panel? I can''t wait to see Katie''s interview . . .

[shoebox119]

If I had paid for any single game ticket or season tickets to any MLB game during the past ten years, I would demand a refund! MLB suckered the fan faithful for big bucks by juicing the ball and looking the other way while the players juiced themselves. In other words, the well-meaning fan did NOT get what he paid for!!!

[wabash45]

Just because he has been tested and not shown any positive results means absolutely nothing! Until Baseball has a program to test for any performance enhancing drug, we will never know the truth for any of these guys. This whole thing is Baseballs fault and they need to do something or it will never change...

[shoebox119]

Meanwhile, I say give him the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by ronrunner62

The key word here, ronrunner, is "doubt." With steroids sweeping over baseball like it has for the past ten years, ALL players, ALL stats, and ALL records have been cast into the shadow of doubt.

The same argument can be made to defend baseball''s no tolerance rule on betting on baseball... as soon as the fans begin to doubt whether or not the game is on the up-and-up, it doesn''t matter who did or didn''t do what, the integrity of the game has been comprised.

And here have the steroid era of baseball. Millions of fans, whether they want to admit it or not, will always harbor at least a shred of doubt or more, that their favorite player just might have been juiced at one time. And there you have it... the integrity of baseball just vanished on the wings of the Mitchell Report.

[ronrunner62]

Arod''s first full season in MLB was 1996 and Jose''s last was 2000 (he was out a lot during his last few seasons as well), so I''m not sure what Jose learned during that period of time (primarily the period before Arod established himself as a superstar)that would make him think Arod was "using." My guess is he figures that anyone with the numbers that Arod has put up from around 1998 to 2007 must be using performance-enhancing substances. I don''t particularly like Arod, but I''m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until something more substantial that Jose Canseco''s word comes along. I don''t see where he looks any more muscular now than he did with the Seattle Mariners several years ago, and as others have said, his numbers have been fairly consistent. The ones who are much more suspect are those who are playing into their 40''s and still performing as if they were in their early 30''s, and whose numbers are improving with age. If Arod is still whacking 45 HRs a year when he''s 42, I''ll be a little more suspect than I am now. Meanwhile, I say give him the benefit of the doubt.

[ronrunner62]

Arod''s first full season in MLB was 1996 and Jose''s last was 2000 (he was out of action for long periods in a couple of his final seasons as well), so I''m not sure what Jose knows about Arod and