A-Rod Definitely Juiced
February 24th, 2009 | No Comments | Source: NY Times
Young, stupid and naïve was the way Alex Rodriguez described his behavior during his tenure with the Texas Rangers between 2001 and 2003.
The latest A-Bomb from A-Rod was that he used performance enhancing drugs during that particularly prolific part of his career…after adamantly denying this for years.
So now Rodriguez becomes the poster-boy for Major League Baseball’s juicing era; he’s by far the most famous player to admit using performance enhancing substances.
Other players like Mark McGwire, Sammy “Captain Cork” Sosa, Barry Bonds and The Rocket are also widely believed to have juiced, and like A-Rod’s, their denials have become required viewing for YouTubers.
“When I arrived at Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure,” Rodriguez told ESPN reporter Peter Gammons. “I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.”
“Back then it was a different culture. I wanted to prove I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time. I did take a banned substance, and for that I am very sorry and deeply regretful.”
According to the New York Times, Rodriguez said he didn’t know what he took and emphasized he’s been clean since joining the Yankees before the 2004 season. His positive test dates to 2003, his last with the Rangers.
In keeping with terms of the collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the player’s union, testing that year was carried out randomly, was associated with no penalties, and the results were to be kept secret.
All that changed in April, 2004 when the Feds, in hot pursuit of perjury charges against Barry Bonds in the BALCO case, seized the positive urine specimens from 2003. One of those cups contained A-Rods’ urine, which was reportedly glowing in the dark.




Last week the Feds unsealed 200 pages of evidence against Barry Bonds.
Anderson has racked up more than a year behind bars for contempt by famously refusing to testify before that very same grand jury. His obstinance may yet
The tape-recorded conversation took place in 2003. It involved Steve Hoskins, a former Bonds business manager, and Anderson. Transcripts reveal Anderson saying he injected Bonds with designer steroids that weren’t detectable at the time.
Soon there followed a public lynching on Capitol Hill and a liquidation filing under Chapter 7 of Virginia’s
And officials should punish the instigators, learn from the conflict and figure out how to improve what they do, he added.
Meanwhile, female heart failure patients are less likely than male patients to receive guideline-recommended drugs, the scientists reported in European Journal of Heart Failure.
In 2005, Crane and colleagues examined 681 children that were born in 1998 and lived continuously in Colorado. They also interviewed parents each year between 2003 and 2005 regarding vacations, sun exposure, and the use of sun block and hats.
Of course no one’s gotten around to doing that yet, but whatever.
Not much, really. Food producers think the benefits wouldn’t be worth the cost increases that would, of course, have to be passed on to consumers.
And we’re not talking about a parcel of land the size of Granny’s Victory Garden, either.
SCHIP, originally formed in 1997 with bipartisan support, is directed at kids in families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid and not enough to afford private insurance.
But even Mo, Larry and Curley couldn’t have missed the reference.




