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As more and more info comes out each day disputing Rodriguez's comments during his press conference, he looks worse than Clemens, who is still in 100% denial mode.
YOu might remember that in his press conference, he said that the substance he claimed to be taking with his "Cousin" , boli, was something that they bought over the counter in the DR, and they really didn't know what he was doing with it. Yesterday it was reported that boli is a high class, high priced steroid that you could not, in fact buy anywhere legally in the DR during that time frame, with or without a prescription.
Now this info about his 'cousin'. He may have been better off saying nothing, which I wouldn't have said a week ago.
My disappointment is turning into distrust and disdain. What a shame (or maybe it's "what a sham")
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First off let me say Gator did an excellent job with his commentary articles.
I was also very disappointed in hearing the news. The test was taken under the guidelines of complete confidentiality. He should sue the shit out of somebody. That being said, all of the players were told in advance the test was coming & he & the other 100+ guys showed absolute arrogance & ignorance, by not cleaning up.
The other thing that bothers me is was on record saying this woman reporter was stalking him & other accusations & it turns out that NONE of it was true! I am a huge Yankees fan & I was an A-rod fan, but he has shown me that he really is a complete douche'. His rep is ruined forever, & I really want to see the complete list become public. As much of a jerk-off as he is, he doesn't deserve to take the fall for all 104 players.
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bobbyt2 Wrote:The test was taken under the guidelines of complete confidentiality. He should sue the shit out of somebody. .
When the Feds ask for the list, you give them the list.
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Hooch Wrote:When the Feds ask for the list, you give them the list.
But, of the 104 players who failed, why is it that the biggest name was the one leaked? It wasn't the guy who played 20 games with the Twins and then never made it to the majors again.
There never should have been a list. Just a number of passes and fails.
Will it blend? That is the question.
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Prog Wrote:But, of the 104 players who failed, why is it that the biggest name was the one leaked? It wasn't the guy who played 20 games with the Twins and then never made it to the majors again.
There never should have been a list. Just a number of passes and fails.
I totally agree there. If it was anonymous why the hell were names attached to the specific tests in the first place? They should just have hundreds of cups of piss, with no names on them, in order to determine a %... which was the intent of the test.
Is there a case for A-rod? Probably. But the defense will be what I posted originally.
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I also agree that if it was random, there never should have been names attached to the samples.
Now that we know there are names, however, I think that Rodriguez's name should not be the only one we know.
I read today that if the entire 40 man roster on all 30 teams took the test, which was supposed to be the case, then that's actually 1200 players.
104 divided by 1200 is 8.6%, which is really a lot closer to almost 10% than it is to "a little over 5%".... I'm just sayin'
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