Tag: PED

A-Rod

The boom was lowered yesterday. 12 Major League Baseball players were given 50 game suspensions for using performance enhancing drugs. Alex Rodriguez was given a 211 game suspension for using PEDs and for hindering the league’s investigation of the clinic, Biogenesis, responsible for these 13 players (14 when you include Ryan Braun) cheating. There is also talk that he recruited other players to Biogenesis and if so that might be a factor. Only A-Rod is appealing. He is the highest paid player in the sport’s history and he will lose about three times my annual salary per game when the suspension starts. He is allowed to play while the case is under appeal.

211 games amounts to the rest of this season and all of next season. A-Rod is 38 years old. Two years out of the game at this point probably means his career ends when the suspension starts. Good. I want him gone. It’s bad enough that cheating is still rampant in Major League Baseball, but the idea of it’s highest paid player pushing dope to other players is beyond evil. He joins Barry Bonds as the poster children for scum in baseball. Even a gambler on a lifetime ban like Peter Rose can feel comfortable looking down his nose at a jerk like A-Rod.

I feel anger toward every player who gets caught cheating. I don’t look at the two recent Red Sox World Series wins in quite the rosey way I used to now that I know that Manny Ramirez and (probably) David Ortiz were using. It has taken a great deal of fun out of the game of Baseball for me. Still, when players are straight with us I am willing to put it behind me. Ryan Braun will probably be the exception after the way he handled his failed test. Now he’s all apologetic, but for you it’s too little too late. The other 12 players who took their punishment yesterday will come back and all will be right again, assuming they stay off of the crap.

Rodriguez though, like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens before him, is dead to me. He’s taking money over integrity. Cash over self respect. The hell with him. I hope his appeal is denied and he never plays another game. Even though he was a Yankee and a member of the Evil Empire, I once thought of him as the guy who would erase Barry Bonds from the all time home run record book. Sure he comes off like a putz in the personality department, but he’s the best player in the game. If anyone can topple that juiced up cheater Bonds it’s A-Rod. Not anymore. Bonds… Rodriguez… One in the same. I hope they both go away and never come back.

Ryan Braun Sure Looks Like a Douche Now

Way to go Ryan Braun. Let’s recap. MVP season, followed by humongous contract with the Brewers, followed by a flunked drug test with it’s mandatory 50 game suspension, followed by an appeal, followed by a rescinding of the suspension due to the test being mishandled, followed by a connection to Biogenesis, followed by a 65 game suspension for violating the leagues drug policies.

Ryan, you tool. You got off! You got to keep your 8 million and whatever dollars! You got to keep your NL MVP award! Why didn’t you just keep your mouth shut and play nicely? Remember last season when the first suspension was announced? This guy denied and denied and pissed and moaned and I swear, not a single baseball fan with a brain believed a single word he said, but he kept on bitching and denying and blah blah blah I didn’t do it yadda yadda yadda. Urgh. If he had just fessed up to it. Yup, I’m a doper. Punish me. It would have all gone away. You would have had a long vacation and then everyone would have taken you back and you and your Brewers could go back to the national obscurity you are all used to.

But no.

Ryan made a huge stink and then after he magically got off (the only player to do so, thusfar) he kept at it and now there is enough documented proof to warrant a new suspension. What does he say to us now? I’ve made mistakes. No shit, Sherlock. Urgh, it just makes me so mad. You signed an eight million and something dollar deal and somehow beat an unbeatable suspension and STILL you’re messing with this crap. Take your money. Be a good player in Milwaukee instead of a great player. Work hard but don’t cheat, and all would be if not forgotten then pushed aside. I don’t get it.

So who’s next? A-Rod? Colon? Does it matter? Will the next suspendee do the right thing and just fess up and take the punishment?

There are two ways to deal with steroid allegations. There’s the Andy Pettitte way, and the Roger Clemens way. The two of them were named in the Mitchell report. They were said to have used PEDs together. Pettitte says, Yup ya got me. I’ll be good from now on. Clemens screams and yells and brings in the lawyers and whatnot.

Pettitte is still pitching. Clemens still looks like a douche.

Urgh, baseball. What is wrong with you guys. Do the right thing. Clean your dumb ass selves up. Stop being stupid. Stop dragging my game through the mud. Just stop being idiots.