I appreciate the fact that Alex Rodriguez became the first superstar baseball player to admit taking performance-enhancing drugs while still in his prime. He made this game attempt to come clean during a press conference yesterday at the Yankees’ spring-training camp in Tampa, Florida.
Regrettably, he injected unnecessary doubt into his confessionby offering the patently fatuous excuse that he was young and stupid, and did not think the juice (“boli”) he was secretly injecting into his butt was illegal:
I didn’t think they were steroids. That’s again part of being young and stupid. It was over the counter. It was pretty simple. All these years I never thought I did anything wrong.
Well, he was certainly stupid. But he was not young. After all, by his own admission, A-Rod was a 25-year-old professional athlete when he began taking steroids in 2001.
Moreover, even if he was too stupid to know they were steroids, he clearly knew they were banned – having admitted to dispatching his cousin to the Dominican Republic to smuggle them back to the U.S. And he clearly knew that, by injecting them, he was trying to cheat his way into the Hall of Fame.
So, for failing to “man up” at his press conference yesterday, A-Rod belongs in the Hall of Shame:
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