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Honestly. Out of all the roid users A-rod in my opinion has done the best to restore his reputation. I give him props over the last 6 or 7 years. I don't care what anyone says either. He was good in the booth and knows his shit. Peope forget. Steroids dont make you more knowledgeable about baseball. They just help you hit more doubles and homers. I could listen to A-rod talk about hitting and baseball mechanics all day.
But that's what you want. You wanna go out somewhere near your peak and have people say "Why did you retire?" as opposed to someone like Derek Jeter who was rubbish in his final year and have people say "Why don't you retire?"
I respect the fact that he’s finally owning up to some of his mistakes but I don’t believe that he only took PED’s at certain points I think he used them throughout his career and in high school
@@glennwetherbee4495 what are you "Ha" about? He's top 5 position player all time with or without steroids. Pujols had the worst speed and ok glove at 1st. Arod stole 40 bases and was winning gold gloves.
@@Idcaboutyourfeelings24 he was a DH 1/2 the time in NY Einstein. Juiced up to hit homers from 32 years old to 42 and retire a NY Icon. To bad he’s a cancer.
im over all the roid shit. so many people were doing it. so many pitchers were on it. so manh players were on it without even realizing because of their trainers. it is apart of history
Well in high school, he was 135lbs, so the rumor is that he used steroids to get to 195lbs. This guy has less credibility than a politician or a used car salesman!!!
AROD SUCKS .... Look at ALTUVE, at 5'6'' 150lbs dude is a superstar! Doesn't need PED's, ALTUVE is an ALL-AROUND BETTER PLAYER than AROD. Wanna talk about a cheater? Even AROD on PED's didn't get a ring, nor his team.
Who cares if he used roids... that era of baseball was the best ever! Let them do what they want. Roids, sticky stuff it doesnt matter. Shit would be fun as fuck to watch again. Also for HR derby bring back old rules. 10 missed homeruns you lose. Not this timed bullshit and extra time added shit.
It shows better character if you can admit you were wrong immediately as opposed as to after you been caught a couple of times and don’t have another way to go. In this respect he reminds me of Pete Rose.
As a Sox fan, I’ll always hate A-Rod the player. But as a person, I’ve been warming up to him. Guy is incredibly insightful as a commentator and he acknowledges his past mistakes. Good on him.
Why are we so hard on guys who did hgh and steroids but not hard on the players from the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s who did amphetamines or all the pitchers that scuffed and spit on balls and still made the hall of fame??? I don’t see a difference
Alex Rodríguez is the best player in sports history all around player a ss that could hit 40 50 homers per season drive in 120 140 runs per season now tell Othani to do that o no wait he pitches lol
If Pete Rose owned up to his behavior and didn't lie about it forever, he would've been in the HOF long ago. And A-Rod, YOU didn't "bring the Yankees back to the post season." Still haven't learned,,,baseball is a TEAM game. No one player does that.
he still is not really admitting it.. he can't, and I can't stand him, he was an amazing player but sorry, he cheated, he can't admit it for contract/money reasons... he could probably afford it but it would be a lot of money to do so outright... but if he really had character he would... it's sad, he is rich beyond all belief, he can afford to be really honest... many people believe anything he says... I don't. He is a phony imo, he never answered the question, it was the old "silly" garbage.. Alex, please, just come clean, be a man, be honest, you did it to get an edge... is that so hard to do? people will embrace the honesty but you can't...
Jesus Christ. It was the environment at the time. From the 80s into the 90’s into the 2000’s players were using. Not all but numerous players on every team. Some got away with it and some got caught.
Nobody's perfect but I don't think he gave back any of the 250 million dollars back in either of his contracts.. cheaters do prosper sometimes 😌 I love the yanks and him but he definitely profited and he got the money 💰
If you're getting that from Baseball Reference the age listed is the age the player was on June 30th of that season. Alex's birthday is July 27th. So in 1996 Alex began the year at 20 and turned 21. In his final season Alex started the season at 40 and turned 41 a few weeks before his last game. He could also just have been rounding down or up from memory, not the biggest deal.
If anyone complains why he didn't come clean before he got caught, ask the 1000's of guys who have done it and still haven't admitted. MLB screwed the players at the start, they were making money off roids big time and let the guys do it. Then they did a league wide sample to see the extent of steriod use, the results wefe neber to be released. That is the test arod failed. Like Ortiz, like Manny, like many others.
when i played baseball as a kid one of my teammates dads said he played against A Rod in high school and it was like a well known thing that he was using
I respect A rod even though he lied twice but he didn't really need PEDs if yall weren't booing him so much and hating on him he would've ran through the playoffs every single year and not be considered a playoff choker like i dont think yall understand the pressure, like look at tatis he used steroids yall all forgot abt it, yall really made Arod the most hated player in mlb history smh 🤦🤦
I'm an A Rod fan but he didn't answer the question here. He talked about when he was clean in his younger days and when he was clean in his last years. I think people want to hear from his mouth why exactly he used PEDs But in a way why should he even bother, we all know why players were on the stuff anyway.
He's explained in the past that it was due to the pressure of living up to the hype. He was the first $200M man in baseball history when he went to Texas which is when he started juicing. And he saw results, winning MVP in 2003. Combine that with the culture that was taking over baseball for the previous 15 years and it seemed like a no brainer. You take steroids, you make money, you succeed. As fans we often overlook that.
Which he obviously wasn’t when you see pics of him at 19. Could’ve just been a “I wanna be big” thing…a lot of guys don’t like feeling small, especially compared to other guys all around them.
PEDs = better performance Better performance = love from your fans/ huge contract He would do it all over again the exact same way. His primary regret was getting caught.
If he didn't lie about it, twice, people would respect him more. The 60 minutes interview felt genuine, yet then he goes out and does it again, lies again, and expects everyone to forgive him.
People saying they love his accountability…he denied and denied till he backed into a corner about to get exposed. How were people not paying attention then able to commend him for this lol
I mean back in the 60’s thru the 80’s pitchers scuffed the ball to cheat. Batters were using corked bats a lot and 80’s thru the early 2000’s most of the league had multiple players on the same thing he was on….buuuut nobody talked about them and rode them like every did ARod.. manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Chris Davis, Mark McGuire, Ryan Braun, Melky Cabrera. The list goes on and on and on!!!Y’all over here acting like he was the only one who did it.. if he played on the Rockies or stayed with the Mariners, nobody would’ve batted an eye about it. No pun intended lol
He was n still is my favorite baseball player. He hit hrs before ped’s during it & even after it. He never needed them he was a great baseball player. He probably got caught up because everyone else was taking them n wanted to live up to that big contract like he said in the past.
This is crap...theres no excuses for doping. The fact that they do it so frequently just shows that they have no moral character and evidently they can feel a sense of accomplishment by CHEATING, which is a huge character flaw. I wouldn't want something i didnt deserve. It would always be clouded by my cheating regardless if it was discovered or not
There is context needed. Rumors go around that arod was actually doping quite young. Considering that he lied not once but twice about drug use, you cant take him seriously. Arod is one of the fakest people. His clubhouses knew it, his teammates knew it, sportswriters, fans, etc. also, notice how he never said WHY he took them. He completely missed the question. Arod also seems to be confused. At age 41, he was out of baseball. Why? Because he sucked. Old age, surgeries fought up with him. He quite possibly had one of the worst farewell seasons for any future hall of famer. So not only did he get the year wrong, he actually got it wrong that his surgeries somehow didn’t impact him. And no he didn’t win the mvp. Also, I find it odd arod says “I took them back to the postseason.” It’s like sorta yes. Yes arod helped the Yankees stay in the postseason. But it’s not like Yankees were in this drought of not being in the postseason. So why hype himself up?
He wasn’t getting the real league mvp hitting .250something, even with 30+ dingers, I think he meant like the team voted him team mvp for the season or something.
I’d like to see any one of you regular joes play 162 games, plus spring training plus playoffs if applicable, plus deal with the media, plus go through all the training sessions……..just on some muscle milk.
So basically we can throw out all your stats/accomplishments from when you were juicing and that leaves us with yiur first and last games are clean, which makes those years the only years we have non cheating stats from
Yeah but atleast he gave an answer. He coulda just said I don't want to talk about it or got bent out of shape. Atleast he gives a calm answer and openly talks about it to interviewers, so I'll give him that. The real answer is he fed into his ego too much, but I'll take a humble answer.
He did it for the money... he's a narcissist... can't keep a relationship longer than a couple years, serial cheater... despised by his teammates and coaches
How did it help with “the money”? He was already a great player. And honestly Jeter seems like a covert narcissist…he hated sharing the stage with Arod (because he wanted all the attention) and mysteriously Jeter’s final year was the same year that Arod just happened to be disciplined for PEDs…things that make you go hmmm🤔 Arod was the better player. And you can still see the bitterness in Jeter when he attempts to announce with Arod, which Jeter is horrible at, BTW. Arod may not have been everyone’s favorite on the team but having your captain (Jeter), who was supposedly amazing and loved by everyone, not like you certainly doesn’t help with whose “side” people choose. Not sure if you’ve dealt with a narcissist before and know how they work, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Jeter played a part in the problems others on the team had with Arod.
@someoneyoudontknow7705 you won't get any objection from me about Jeter.. I'm a huge Yankee fan and I never got why he was treated like he was some kind of Michael Jordan. A-Rod was a far superior player than Jeter but he was doing roids long before he got to NY.
Destroyed his legacy and spot in Cooperstown with that decision, and the awful thing about it is he didn’t need them to try to improve, he was already great
Exactly. It kills him knowing he'll never get in the HOF. He's living with that decision and hates that he did it. Respect for him being accountable here. He still will always be my favorite player. 2009 Post Season.
