Anyone else find it ironic that (arguably) the two best players of the last 15 years have both been tainted by use of performance enhancers?
Alex Rodriguez was looked at by many as the games best hope to rid the record books of Barry Bonds and gaining of the record through modern chemistry.
Now,Rodriguez admits that he too used enhancers to boost his performance when he was a Texas Ranger.
The excuse that Rodriguez used was that he felt pressure to live up to the huge contract that he signed with the Rangers and needed to add this to his regimen is a bogus one.
After all,wasn't his performance with the Mariners the reason that Texas signed him to such a big contract?
When you read between the lines here,there is one question that no one has asked of Rodriguez.
Alex,So if you needed to take these substances to maintain your status as the top player in the game in Texas,were you using them in Seattle as well?
And if you weren't using in Seattle,why did you start in Texas?
If you were using in Seattle,you were doing this for far longer than you claim.
No matter the reason,I can never understand why players such as Rodriguez,Bonds and Roger Clemens crossed this line.
They were Hall of Fame players already and money should never be an issue when you make the amount of money that each of them have made in their career.
I can see why the player that needs to hang on might give them a try,but guys with their talent and career?
I'm sorry,but I don't consider Rodriguez's admission to be either honest or courageous.
Stepping forward to accept blame without the leak of information,now that is courage.
I understand why he would not do that,but telling the truth only when forced is far from being honest.....
Our next winner is a former All-Star that is being sued for knowing that he has AIDS and refused to have protected sex and is now being sued for 15 million dollars.
Roberto Alomar goes on the HOF ballot next year and had an excellent chance of getting in,but this certainly cannot help his candidacy.
I am not really interested in either Alomar's sex life or whether he wins or loses the suit against him,but some things are starting to add up in one of the greatest sports mysteries of the last ten years.
I bet that I have had 10 "hardball talks" on the game with people on Roberto Alomar and how I could not remember a player losing his abilities so quickly.
Take a look at his numbers in 2001-.336,20 homers and 100 RBI and then the three years thereafter,average not above .266,20 homers in the final three years combined and basically finishing as a backup infielder.
The way that Alomar's career ended always was a red flag for me anyway,but assuming that Alomar does have AIDS (and that is a huge assumption) that would go a long way to figuring out how arguably the best second baseman of the last 40 years lost his skills so quickly.
So since I want to put Alomar's sex life off the table,why is Alomar an idiot?
Well,in the times that we live in and considering the travel and lifestyle of pro athletes,if you arent smart enough to protect yourself from the diseases that are so easy to catch-you are an idiot.
Robbie Alomar is just 40 years old,he could still be playing and to (possibly) have thrown it all away because you don't like wearing condoms is both stupid and ignorant.
Alomar robbed himself and baseball fans with his stupid and reckless behavior......
Our final contestant is yet another special case.
Hall of Famer hoopster Elgin Baylor is suing the Los Angeles Clippers for-firing him for Age and Race employment discrimination....
That is right,the WORST GM in basketball kept his job for 22 years,made the playoffs just 3 times,made it out of Round one once is suing because he was fired.
I could do a entire post on the baffling moves that Elgin Baylor made and try to figure out just how in the hell he kept his job for 22 years and he says he was canned due to discrimination?
I screamed about Dave Littlefield for his reign of rot and he was not running the Pirates for a third of the time that Baylor manned the Clippers ship.
My lord,when you want to talk about having a lot of nerve,think about this one!
A record of 619-1153 does not deserve termination?
What does then????
Elgin Baylor certainly cannot take all blame for the Clippers failures.
Owner Donald Sterling is reknowned for his cheapness and Baylor never had the budget that even an average NBA team has to run a team properly.
Baylor knows the game and could be helpful to a team in an advisory role even today,but this suit smacks of sour grapes against Sterling,not an actual case that Baylor has...
Here is a pic of Elgin Baylor in his regular seat at the NBA offices in Seacaucus New Jersey for the NBA Draft Lottery.
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