A-Rod: The Poll

by Travis G on Feb 9, 2009 5:41 PM EST in Miscellaneous

So we know now that Alex Rodriguez did in fact take PEDs.

The question now: do you believe he's still using? And if so, does that diminish your fandom of either him or the Yankees? Do you even care?

FYI, Arod averaged 37 homeruns-per-season while in Seattle, 52/season with Texas, and 44/season with the Yanks.

And the irrepressible Pete Abraham shares his view:

ESPN’s Peter Gammons asked Alex Rodriguez directly whether he used PEDs from 2001-03.

“That’s pretty accurate, yes,” he said.
What does that mean? Does that mean more than three years or less? The Yankees will want to know the exact timing given that Rodriguez came to New York in 2004.
Rodriguez also denied knowing what substances he took. This is the same player who literally brings his own food to the clubhouse every day. So for three years, he injected drugs into his body without knowing what they were?

[If he's lying about that, should we expect the truth now?]

If what he said is true this time, Rodriguez stopped using right around the time MLB instituted drug testing. He has not tested positive since and was subjected to Olympic-style testing in 2006 when he participated in the World Baseball Classic.

Poll

Is he still using?

Yes

109 votes

No

326 votes

Don't care

98 votes

533 votes | Poll has closed

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A-Rod...

should re-do his contract so the incentives aren’t there anymore for him reaching certain homerun goals. That would say alot and go a long way in showing that winning a world championship is the most important thing, as he told Peter Gammons

by emille2 on Feb 9, 2009 6:48 PM EST reply actions

See: Scott Boras client

..ain’t gonna happen.

by NumberSeven on Feb 9, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions

just watched the interview online

He says flat-out that he hasn’t used since 2004, and indicates that he was clean before 2001.

by long time listener on Feb 9, 2009 9:30 PM EST reply actions

He was looked like he was lying when he said that that was pretty accurate...

You saw his gulp right after he said “Yea that’s pretty accurate”. I don’t know if he still is doping or not but I doubt that 2001-2003 was the only time he used. We’re better off without him.

To the tune of the classic children's song "This Old Man" (the part with nick nack patty whack)

Big Snack, Silverback, take the Dawg Pound's Bone, the Black and Gold sent the Brownies crying home.

by Tim Mullhaupt (HSS) on Feb 9, 2009 9:57 PM EST reply actions

take A-Rod out the '09 lineup

and it changes dramatically. With him it’s still a force. I think it’s foolish and short-sighted to just say get rid of him.. i still just don’t understand the mentality that some yankee “fans” have, that they want a player in pinstripes to fail. it just doesn’t make sense to me.

by NumberSeven on Feb 9, 2009 10:28 PM EST up reply actions

That is never going to happen

A-Rod is going nowhere unless he decides to leave $250M+ on the table and walks away from the game. Fat chance of that happening.

Like it or not, he’s a Yankee for the next nine years through good times and bad. Hopefully, and for the sake of the club – he’ll leave the game with a few championship rings on his fingers.

Yankee fans and the team needs to support him now more than ever. There is no other alternative because it makes no sense to destroy the guy when they need him to perform.

by anaconda on Feb 9, 2009 10:28 PM EST up reply actions