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

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

[shoebox119]

Look at A-Roid''s face in the picture accompanying the above article. He''s freakin'' and there isn''t any doubt about it. And he KNOWS his whole career is being flushed down the sewer along with the sport once called baseball.

Another American invention bites the dust!

[shoebox119]

As far as any true baseball fan is concerned, the game, as it once so beautifully was, ceased to exist after the strike of ''94. First they juiced the ball, then the players juiced themselves. The game''s a farce and belongs right down in the cellar with pro wrestling.

Viva la Aaron and Maris!! Your records are restored!!

[frb01]

A-rod is a lot of things that you don''t like in the modern athlete, if you look at his numbers there is no surge on HR''s like there was with the others. He has a grating type of personality that rubs a lot of people the wrong way, maybe he got on the wrong side of Jose, which I think is pretty easy to do.

[shoebox119]

Looks consistent to me...his biggest numbers comming in his "prime"

Posted by motom171

Yeah, A-Roid came into his "prime" just as the steroid era began: 1998. With a dozen other pinstriped supermen, his numbers and the Yankees'' last 4 championships aren''t worth a good wipe. Case closed.

[motom171]

HR RBI
1994 Seattle Mariners 0 2
1995 Seattle Mariners 19 58
1996 Seattle Mariners 36 123
1997 Seattle Mariners 23 84 (injured)
1998 Seattle Mariners 42 124
1999 Seattle Mariners 42 111
2000 Seattle Mariners 41 132
2001 Texas Rangers 52 135
2002 Texas Rangers 57 142
2003 Texas Rangers 47 118
2004 New York Yankees 36 106
2005 New York Yankees 48 130
2006 New York Yankees 29 113
2007 New York Yankees 54 156

Looks consistent to me...his biggest numbers comming in his "prime"

[motom171]

A-Rod is putting up the same numbers now as he was with Texas and Seattle. He isn''t a cheater, and has only been implicated by that wife-beater "say it ain''t so"...Jose Cansuckass.

Continue to hate the Bombers, but lay off A-Rod...he is only the best player of this generation!

Just like Marion Jones and Barry Bonds before you, they pass every drug test and said they didn''t use steroids either. A-Rod you are laughable.

[shoebox119]

A-Roid, it''s only a matter of time. You''re part of the steroid era and you can''t deny it, you and your 518 homeruns don''t mean squat anymore, and mnm8674, sorry to burst your hero-like worship of a fallen superstar, who we now know never really was. Case closed.

[sanfelz]

When asked during spring training what he did during the off-season, A-Rod replied, "Worked hard." I thought then, and think now, that he said that to distingush himself from the juicers. During the season, he has helped Cano and Cabrera incorporate a workout program into their lifestyle. A-Rod seems to be a better ballplayer and a better negotiator than other players.

[mnm8674]

shoebox, you are a moron. A-Rod has been a great hitter since he came into the league. You need to go back and check your stats and stop making things up. How do you know if Hank Aaron or Maris did steroids? You don''t so shut your trap

[toolmangler-2009]

When my father asked me who I was pulling for in the ''53 world series, I told him The "Yankees". He told me that there were only two teams in Baseball, The YANKEES and whomever they were playing. So I came away with the feeling that the YANKEES and the "Brooklyn" Dodgers were the ''only'' two teams in Baseball. Since then the field has narrowed aa bit because the Dodgers went to L.A. I can understand why A-Rod decided to stay and live or die (hypothetically) with the YANKEES, win, lose or draw, they ARE te greatest.

[awmarvin05]

To single out the Yankees in all of this is just plain stupid. Every team had players and not only that most of the Yankee players implemented were there for a year or two at most! I am sure that wasn''t the first time or only time. Don''t just single out one team, I think it is so funny people try to lay blame to one team because of the winning history. Just look at whatever team you root for, there are cheaters every where, Yankees just stand out because they solidify the best. This whole era is tainted not just the Yankees, you people make me sick!

[shoebox119]

A-Rod not on the juice? Just look at his homerun totals before the now infamous year of 1998 and afterwards.

And since we don''t really know who was on steroids and who wasn''t, the game remains tainted at least back to 1998 or earlier. Wipe out all the record or get your asterisks ready by the hundreds.

In my book, the REAL homerun kings are Roger Maris and Hank Aaron.

[shoebox119]

The New York Yankees... #1 in payroll, but still can''''t buy a championship.

Now they''''re #1 in juiced players... Clemens, Pettitte, I count at least 22 current or former pinstriped supermen.

All their achievements are now tarnished and the Yankees'''' four World Series championships last decade can kiss my drug-free *ss!!

[chas1112]

Base ball was dead before Steroids, players sucked, and clubs were going broke, not untill Mark Mcguire and sosa''s home run antics, did baseball have anything worthwhile to talk about. EVERYONE knew that these guys were juicing, but it saved the game and got everyone to buy new stadiums etc. WHO CARES, a profesional atlete is already several cuts above anyone average, and at that level of competition they should be able to put whatever they want into their body, this is the Job they have chosen, and they are doing it for Entertainment, there are no life and death situations going on that are som= important every person needs to comment on this ***. And a final though, I always here people say "Kids look up to Athletes", I think this is *** too, and if steroids are the worst thing they encounter, id take it over Rap music and booze any day. Those are also what comes to mind when you think of atletes, and alot of STD''s as well

[suomi78006]

I would like to hear a similar statement from Roger Clemmons. His statement that he never has been tested positive for steroids is merely a statement that no one has ever caught him by testing. We need a statement without waffle words.

[pilgrimsway-2009]

Why has this list all of the sudden come 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!

[bmcwrites]

George Mitchell''s report -- and the reactions to it -- caused me to wonder how professional baseball might be different if Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul withdrew from the race for the White House and replaced Bud Selig as commissioner of baseball. Yes, what if Ron Paul was Commissioner of Baseball? He is, after all, against the War on Drugs.

[kiskis1]

Sunday is the day targeted by GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul''s supporters for another fundraising push.



So, I''ll be sending my money in on Sunday for the simple reason Ron Paul is an honest man among charlatans and power seekers. And he gives me hope when it is in short supply.

It is also fun to think of what a Paul administration would do if the establishment allowed him to get that far.

Hope, truth and justice are in short supply in what is now the United States. When they are offered, they should be grabbed and protected like the rare treasures they have become. Ron Paul offers those things.

Certainly it is another David and Goliath struggle, and the Davids have rarely won since the original face-off. But, that is why we have hope.

[centristdem]

Let me start by saying that I''m a Red Sox fan. I don''t like A-Rod much. But I don''t believe for a second that he is or has been a steroid user. Not one shred of evidence has ever emerged linking him to a dealer or a steroid-linked trainer. His progression as a player is perfectly natural, including no sudden leaps or changes in performance. His physique shows no sign of steroid related bloating or unnatural muscles.

Canseco clearly had real dirt on a lot of former teammates and customers of his steroid suppliers. But A-Rod is neither. Canseco is just lashing out at big names, claiming everyone is as corrupt as he was. He did an important service by helping bring the full scope of steroid use to public notice, but now he really needs to shut up.