My friends, the "shit" has officially hit the fan.
This SHOULD NOT go down as a surprise or a shock to any of us.
Alex Rodriguez and all of those MLB players are people they are not machines.
The emotional aspect comes into play. They have feelings. They hurt. They bleed red.
They are HUMAN!
What else did we expect???
In order to compete they had no choice but to "juice".
Steroids was out of control in baseball dating back BEFORE "1997"* but that's the year it came to light...
* Yankees- BEST TEAM EVER 125 wins..
* McGwire & Sosa- the race for MOST HR's in a season...
Let me do some simple arithmetic for you...
because that's one thing that's always legit THE MATH, the numbers don't lie.
It always, "ADDS UP".
Here we go...
I will parallel the Major League Baseball careers of Jose Canseco (Steroid user) and Jason Grimsley (Steroid provider) and will point out "key" players from this Steroid Era:
Canseco:
92 (A's): Canseco, McGwire, Ruben Sierra (played with Yankees), Scott Brosius (p/w Yankees)
92-94 (Rangers): Ivan Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez, Ruben Sierra, Julio Franco, Canseco (pitched in a game in 94), Kevin Brown, Nolan Ryan, Kenny Rogers, Rick Helling (who told the MLB union that steroids was running rampant in baseball- he was ignored)
95-96 (Red Sox): Mo Vaughn, Canseco, Chris Donnels (played with Mets), Roger Clemens, Mike Stanton, Kevin Mitchell (also played with the Mets)
97 (A's): McGwire, Canseco, Brosius, Jason Giambi, Matt Stairs, Dave Magadan (played with Mets), Miguel Tejada
98 (Blue Jays): Carlos Delgado, Canseco, Mike Stanley (former Yankee), Clemens
99-2000 (D-Rays): John Flaherty (p/w Yanks), Canseco, Julio Franco, Wade Boggs
2000 (YANKEES): Brosius, David Justice, Glenallen Hill, Canseco, Clemens, GRIMSLEY, Stanton, Dwight Gooden
2001 (White Sox): Canseco (end of MLB career)
Grimsley:
93-95 (Indians): Glenallen Hill, Grimsley, and a pool of great young talent (Thome, Ramirez, Baerga, etc)
96 (Angels): Randy Velarde (former Yankee), Grimsley
1999-2000 (YANKEES): Brosius, Knoblauch, Pettitte, Clemens, Stanton, Grimsley, Justice, Hill, Canseco, Gooden, Stanton
2001-2004 (Royals): Carlos Beltran, Endy Chavez, Grimsley, Knoblauch, Graem Llyod (former Yankee), Matt Stairs, Juan Gonzalez
2004-2005 (O's): Palmeiro, Grimsley, Tejada
2006 (D-Backs): Grimsley (end of MLB career)
Talk about, "Six Degrees of Separation"!!
It is no coincidence that somehow someway these guys played on the same teams during their careers. Or better yet, that they didn't know what was going on in that club house.
It was Rick Helling...
who made it a point to notify MLB that there was a problem, they ignored him. Canseco went public and broke the steroid wall of silence. Now we have the Mitchell Report, the trainer's (Rodomski/McNamee) "tell all" books, the Bonds stories, and everything else...but NOW, NOW we have the big fish, the face of baseball, the poster child, the future of MLB...
Alex Rodriguez failing a steroid test in 2003.
This was suppose to be kept confidential. Nothing is ever kept a secret. It always comes out. Stories always leak because people love controversy.
If this is in fact true (which reports claim that they are), this makes him a cheater just like all the rest. There is no difference. Although it wasn't considered an illegal substance in baseball, it's still "cheating"!
He used a substance to improve his abilities and gain a competitive advantage on everyone else.
This is sad for baseball!!!
Blog out...
Highlander #30
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