Alex Rodriguez: Is Your Nose Growing?

Alex, I'm sorry, but I just don't believe you. As a matter of fact, I still think you are lying. Your insincerity makes me want to call Hallmark and set all their greeting cards on fire. Get over yourself, kid.

The worst thing you could have done was call that press conference.

You had your 15-minutes with Peter Gammons where you could have told him all the bull you told us yesterday. We didn't need to see the insincere looks and hear the equally insincere apologies we got yesterday.

I suppose you can count me among the many who will be "entitled" to his or her opinion. I just don't buy that you were young and stupid.

On the one hand, you didn't know what you were doing and probably took the substance improperly, but on the other hand, you felt the need to hide the fact that you were taking it from everyone.

Huh?

If it was true when you said, "All these years, I never thought I did anything that was wrong," then why hide it?

I'll tell you why, and you sort of touched on this in the last part of your press conference—you hid it because you knew it was not right. You don't have to be college-educated to know that you should have taken this substance to one of your handlers before playing pin cushion with your "cousin" for three years.

Furthermore, how many years did it take for you to stop being "ignorant" as you say? Was it before or after you left Texas?

At some point, perhaps after Giambi, Clemens, Pettite, Palmeiro, Bonds or Sosa were called out, you had to say to yourself, "Oh man, will I be next?". Did that scare you straight?

No, wait, it was the neck injury that did it. My bad. It had nothing to do with the fact that MLB instituted a policy that would have likely made what you were doing illegal in the face of your professional career. That was just a coincidence that the policy coincided with your decision to stop.

I realize that there are lots of people out there who will say that Rodriguez was damned either way. Had he said nothing, public perception would be that he's still trying to hide something. Yet, his coming out just made him look like a bigger liar.

What's a guy to do?

They may be right. This is really a no-win situation for Rodriguez. He is to be commended a little bit for coming out and further explaining the situation, but he has to know that all this has done is bring about more questions and add to the legions of doubters who already question his abilities as a baseball player.

I, for one, already had my opinion of A-Rod. This changes absolutely nothing. I do not believe that what he has accomplished as a player will be tarnished by anything he has done in prior seasons. I reiterate a point I've made prior to this article by saying that I don't know that PED's have that much of an effect on a players abilities to hit, run or field.

If anything, it increases their longevity in the game and makes recovery time much shorter.

That said, an advantage does exist, albeit a small one. That's my very uninformed opinion based on what I have read and heard about PED's as it pertains to the baseball player.

In the end though, what Alex Rodriguez has done is attempt to trivialize a very serious thing. It is for that reason that I find his approach to this issue less than honorable. He hid it and would have continued to hide it had he not gotten caught. Plain and simple. 

He wasn't too young or too stupid to know that what he was doing was wrong. He knew it and he lied about it; he was covering his own backside.

That, my dear Alex, does not require a college degree.