Baseball slugging icon Alex Rodriguez, aka A-Rod, admitted today he gained some of his extraordinary power from A-Roiding. A-Rod's admissions add one more piece of evidence to the baseball power era known as The Steroid Era, when sluggers went 'roid wild, toppling gravity with immense feats of power hitting. It will also be known as an era when the top MLB talent simply cheated the game, the fans, and in the end themselves.
Some say events occur in threes; A-Rods confession coincides with Barry Bonds's BALCO/steroid legal battles firing up again this year, and Mark McGwire's brother pulling open the curtain on his juiced slugging career. The vintage sluggers of just 5-15 years ago now appear to have cheated past sluggers like the Babe with a ptoent mix of anabolic PEDs like testosterone, nandrolone, HGH, and other more exotic drugs.
A-Rod admitted in an interview with Peter Gammons (was this staged?) to roiding (blast magazine):
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003.
ESPN is reporting that Rodriguez, in an exclusive interview with Peter Gammons, has admitted to allegations that surfaced in a recent Sports Illustrated report online.
“I felt an enormous amount of pressure,” Rodriguez told Gammons. “Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive. I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth, you know, being one of the greatest players of all time, and I did take a banned substance.”
Rodriguez did appear apologetic in talking to Gammons.
Reports indicated A-Rod tested positive for testosterone and primobolan. His 3 year run from 2001 to 2003 included 52, 57, and 47 home runs. And who says anabolic steroids don't benefit sluggers?
The drug Rodriguez allegedly tested positive for, Primobolan, is less detectable than many other steroids because its markers stay in the body for less time than other drugs. It is also expensive, costing about $500 per week, SI reported.
Rodriguez called the time a “loosey goosy” era, saying he didn’t “know exactly what substance” he “was guilty of using.”
Rodriguez hit 47 home runs in 2003, good enough for his third consecutive home run title.
if A-Rod (A-Roid?) had used steroids i would have expected him to get a lot more "huge" like Bonds of McGwire
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