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UPDATE: A-Roid Admits It
UPDATE: A-Rod (A-Roid, A-Fraud – I still like The Rod, but it’s not sticking
yet) has admitted to ESPN’s Peter Gammons that, you know, he did it. Children everywhere are…
actually, I don’t think children care about this at all.
When I was a young Yankee fan, my guy was Reggie Jackson. All I cared about was how he played. Granted, it was a different time, but despite all of the posturing from commentators I don’t think kids care much about whether or not The Rod was juicing. Maybe I’m wrong.
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SI.com is reporting that Alex Rodriguez, whom I usually refer to as “The Rod”, tested positive for two different anabolic steroids, Primobolan and testosterone, back in 2003. (Make up your own joke about Alex taking testosterone.)
What does this have to do with parenting? Well, somewhat like the Plaxico Burress gun incident (“Safety? What’s a safety?”), kids who are into sports, and even those that aren’t, will hear this news. What do you tell them? If you go with the “tut-tut” sanctimony of Major League Baseball and the seemingly endless parade of columnists and talk show hosts, then you have to tell them that The Rod is a big fat cheater. That’s the word that has been assigned to steroid users. Cheaters. At least it
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3 Comments
JeanneSager commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amMark W.: Ditto, dude, ditto!
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWhat should you tell your kids? What I’ve been telling them all along – that A-Rod is a gigantic douche.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amScott Brosius took roids too…just watched on the MLB Network, the game Randy Johnson struck out 19 A’s. Scott was on that team (with Big Mac), and he was a beast. Not the true Scott Brosius of his later Yankee days. He had to have been juicing too. Yes he did some amazing things for the Yanks in the playoffs…but did he do it fair? Doubt it…
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