NewsWhore
02-09-2009, 05:10 PM
All seemed good for Major League slugger Alex Rodriguez only 72 hours ago. Rodriguez was in the DR, practicing with members of the Dominican team that would play in the World Baseball Classic, his name had slowly become absent from the Page 6 gossip columns and he was still the richest player in baseball, and then came Saturday afternoon when Sports Illustrated dropped the news of all news: A-rod had taken steroids. Sports Illustrated, citing four different sources, reported that Alex Rodriguez was one of 104 Major League players that failed a drugs test in 2003, when he won the home run title and the first of his three league MVPs. "As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004." With all things considered the results were supposed to be kept a secret. But now the news is out and a cloud of suspicion, which hovered over Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, Miguel Tejada has now threatened to damage the image of one of MLB's greatest talents. A-Rod, who has been taunted with the nicknames A-fraud and A-roid, is suspected of taking methenolone and testosterone. "You'll have to talk to the union, I'm not saying anything," was A-rod's only response to that accusations. If the reports are ultimately determined true baseball could lose its last "clean" superstar of the Steroid Era. Sports news commentators said that the old news could have been leaked now that he said he would play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.
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