The Fall of A-Fraud: Rodriguez Used Steroids With the Yankees

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As a Boston Red Sox fan, I can't help but have a smile on my face this morning.  Waking up to reports that A-Rod used steroids with the Yankees is the perfect way to start this wonderful day (along with a nice brew from Starbucks).

I think back to 2004.  What would've happened had that trade actually gone down?  Manny wouldn't have launched rockets over the Monster, Papi wouldn't have played go fetch with opposing fielders, and the Yanks probably would've won three or four titles.

Instead?  My Red Sox are the class of the AL, while the Yankees rot in their own pool of lucrative contracts and terrible chemistry.  But they seem happy, don't they? 

It's kind of like how the Blazers secretly wish they drafted Kevin Durant, but to save face they say the love the fact that they can play Greg Oden for five minutes a night before he gets into foul trouble. 

All the while, they're watching Kevin Durant blossom into a superstar. Yeah, it's like that.

I find it funny how far Rodriguez has fallen.  Just a few years ago, this was the guy that everyone, and I mean everyone, looked up to. 

Sure, he was a jerk off the field.  Jordan was a jerk off the court.  But he was the best.  You knew every time he had the ball in his hand, something amazing would happen. 

That's how it was with A-Rod.  Every time he stepped up to the plate, opposing pitchers shivered on the mound.

Then came the steroid allegations.  The whole "I only used them in Texas" bit.  Everyone sympathized with him. 

"Oh sure, he did them, but at least he's sitting down to say he did".  Fine, maybe he's a decent guy for at least sitting and admitting to his mistakes. 

But then panic ensued.  A-Rod played the "let me have surgery and return to my team and play my guts out when they're struggling and people aren't showing up to the games" card. 

So much for that.  A new report from the New York Daily News, from excerpts from Selena Roberts' book, states that A-Rod was juicing while with the Yankees, and that pretty much everyone knew.  The report also states:

1.  Yankee teammates had the most wonderful nickname for A-Rod that I can guarantee will be on a Red Sox shirt in the next week or so. 

2. Jose Canseco thought A-Rod had been using since high school, since A-Rod could lift just as much as the King Kong-looking ball player.

3. A-Rod's high school teammates knew he was on steroids.

And probably the most disturbing fact to me:

4. A-Rod tipped the minimum 15 percent at Hooters.

So in two months of this MLB season, A-Rod has gone from hero to decent to downright zero (I had to rhyme, I'm sorry).  A-Rod is making Barry Bonds look like a nice guy right about now. 

How do you think Bonds feels?  I'll bet you he's already putting together money to buy A-Rod one hell of a Christmas gift. 

It's no secret that A-Rod has never been liked as a teammate.  Just ask Michael Young of the Rangers.  Ask any member of the Yankees right now, even former best friend Derek Jeter. 

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