A-Rod: Forgive and Forget

We have all heard the story, and the interview the past day...day and a half.  Alex Rodriguez did use steroids, yes.  He used them in 2001-2003 and when he says that he hasn't taken them since....I forgive him and everyone else just needs to forget about it.  If he has been tested, and I guarantee he has, since 2003 when he claims he quit using them, and he hasn't been tested positive since?  How can people still say that he can't still be considered one of the best ever to play the game.  If you take a look at his numbers throughout his career, 2001-2003 were no different than most of the rest of his career.  Some of his best years have been with the Yankees.  Just like the Yankees organization stated, Alex is human, he is not immune to make mistakes, no one is.  Was it stupid of him?  Yes.  Should he have maybe come clean about this when he's been asked before?  Yes.  But who is to judge? 

Everyone may say he is a cheater and everyone who has ever done steroids, in a sense is a cheater.  But if you really think about it....Having bigger muscles, quicker around the base paths, hit the ball harder when you make contact, it all boils down to one thing.  STEROIDS DOES NOT MAKE YOU HIT THE BALL ANY BETTER THAN BEFORE!  If you take steroids, it is not going to improve your hand-eye coordination, your muscle memory for swinging the bat, your fundamental skills that you have practiced since T-ball, or any other critical skill to play this game.  You still have to do the work and work just as hard as you did before or after you ever took them.  Its not a magic drug to make you a "super athlete"  all it does is improves muscles.  Not to mention the after affects are more unforgiving than the people who don't forgive someone who makes a mistake and does steroids.

Also, the other 103 names on that list.  They need to be said and everyone needs to know the whole story.  If your going to leak one of the best players to ever play this game, you have to leak everyone else.  You already broke the rules of that you were going to keep that list confidential and never let it be leaked, well it has been leaked and now every name on that list needs to come out and be said.