A-Rod Admits To Using Performance Inhancing Drugs

Man, this blows, A-Rod was my favorite player and now he'll be vilified for the rest of his career because he took steroids from 2001-2003 while with the Texas Rangers. I can't say I blame him for feeling pressure to perform because if you remember back in December of 2000 he had just signed that 10-year $252 million contract which was the biggest in sports at the time (not in baseball, but in SPORTS). At the same time McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds are hitting record numbers of homeruns (and as we all know, chicks dig the long ball lol).

Seriously though, I get it. I get why he did it and I don't hold it against him one bit. The real story here should be why "performance inhancing drugs" didn't seem to help his performance much. If you look at his career stats, the difference between those 3 years and all his others aren't that noticable. Plus, 2 of his 3 MVPs came when he was clean. You also can't forget that while hitters are more known for taking steroids, that pitchers were juicing too. I just hope people take all that into consideration when judging him and stop trying to make it seem like it was just 1 or 2 people taking that shit in the steroids era.