Quotes have already leaked, but it looks like he will admit to Peter Gammons tonight that he took steroids from 2001-03. I'm not sure why there is as much gnashing of teeth over this as there is. Is this really all that surprising to anybody?
To be honest, I don't really blame A-Rod all that much. I don't buy his excuse that he felt a pressure to perform after signing his big contract, although I am sure he did. I just don't buy that as his reason. The real reason is because baseball, at that time, wasn't punishing anybody for testing positive. In other words, baseball gave players a green light to cheat.
Suppose the NFL decided that while being offsides was still against the rules, they were no longer going to penalize teams for being offsides. Any team that didn't place their linebackers in the opposing team's backfield pre-snap would be idiots. Or better yet, suppose it was illegal to tape defensive signals and the New England Patriots went on to win a couple of Super Bowls while doing so....
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