My Two Cents About The A-Rod Admission

Posted by admin on February 9, 2009 under Alex Rodriguez | Be the First to Comment

I’m really not sure how I feel about about Alex Rodriguez’s admission to using a “banned substance” and I don’t know if I’ll have a concrete feeling about him again. I had a lot of mixed emotions as I watched his interview on ESPN with Peter Gammons and now as I write this.

I didn’t think he would admit that he used anything. I expected him to take the route of Roger Clemmens or Mark McGwire and deny everything. I want to say that makes A-Rod a better man and I have to respect that…or it might just be that he thinks he still has a chance of getting into the Hall Of Fame since he came clean. And maybe he does have a right to prove that he still belongs in the Hall.

I was hoping to hear reasons on why he would do such a thing, instead there was definitely times he sounded like a politician. Not as bad as Rod Blagojevich, but he’s definitely no Obama. A-Rod made a lot of excuses. It was like one minute he was taking responsibility, then the next he was blaming the culture of baseball at the time, the pressure to perform, being young and stupid to one hundred plus degree weather in Texas.

Then he goes off on a tagent and starts to blame the Sports Illustrated reporter, Selena Roberts. It was like he was blaming her for the story coming out….and basically calling her psycho for stalking him, when she was just doing her job, bringing a story to light, that the public definitely needed to know about.

I’ll admit, that I’m still not on A-Rod’s side yet. But at least, I’m beginning to feel for him and think that maybe he’s not the worse person ever. I would like to see if he backs up his words with actions and does go out and speak to the youth about steroids, goes into poor communities in effort to do “real good.” I don’t know if it would make up for it, but at least it would be a start.

The cynical Yankee fan says that he’ll be forgiven if the Yankees start the season on a winning streak and permanently pardoned if the Yankees win the world series this year.