It seems to me that something’s being left out. It’s something that needs to be addressed to anyone who has and wants to defend someone using performance enhancing drugs. It’s the performance of the players not using performance enhancing drugs. Not only is it not fair to the individuals who have worked to get where they are the honest way, but it could potentially be devistating to their careers as well.
Imagine if you will a pitcher. He pitches a perfect game into the 8th inning. A drug enhanced player comes up to bat and hits a homerun. The pitcher ends up losing the game. Now imagine, the same pitcher, playing in 10 straight games in this same manner. What do you think would happen to his career?
I know most of you are probably thinking to yourselves, “The odds of this happening are a million to one!” So what about the one pitcher that loses his career? Does he become just a statistic?
The one thing I thought Alex Rodriguez had going for him was his honesty. It turns out that this isn’t true. He will go down in history as one of the greatest players who “admitted it”.
Alex Rodriguez admitted “experimenting” with steroids during his stay with the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003. He went on to become one of the highest paid players in Major League Baseball with the Yankees. A contract valued at $252 million.
SI.com reported Saturday morning that Rodriguez tested positive for testosterone and Primobolan during his 2003 American League MVP season. There are no indications that Rodriguez tested positive at any time after that campaign.
Alex Rodriguez should be very ashamed about what he’s done. He becomes just another tainted baseball star who has failed to live up to, not his playing potential, but his ethical potential.