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Just saw on espn that AROD tested positive for steroids in 2003 when he played for the Rangers. I kinda suspected this for awhile his numbers were just too high not to be using steroids.
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Just saw on espn that AROD tested positive for steroids in 2003 when he played for the Rangers. I kinda suspected this for awhile his numbers were just too high not to be using steroids.
A-Roid. What a joke.
There is one thing that has bothered me since this broke earlier. Everytime I see it on the news they seem to suggest that just because A-Roid tested positive, that somehow that suggests almost everyone in the game was on roids. Since when has A-Roid been some kind of golden boy that sets the standard for character in MLB? And yea, I think a TON of players were on roids, but not just now because A-Roid tested positive back then.
Why does it stun anyone anyway that A-Roid was/is a juicer? The guy put up huge numbers that when I was a kid were unthinkable. Sure every now and then someone would put up a monster season like that, but over the last 10 years or so, its common to see people put up numbers in that territory every year. Some do it for several seasons, some do it once maybe twice. But, it seems every season there are multiple players with ridiculous power numbers. To me the last person to hit a legit 50 HRs off the top of my head was Cecil. All these other guys have been doing it in seasons that plenty of others had numbers close or better.
I wish baseball would just open the whole thing up and put out there everyone that did roids in that era out in the open and try and move forward, putting this bs behind. It seems like alot of numbers are declining and less and less people are doing roids these days.
Id like to believe that Griffey was clean. But at this point, calling anyone in that era clean is a question mark. I want to believe he is though.Did you forget about Ken Griiffey. He hit 50 hrs a couple of times after Cecil. He is the one player whose talent was overlooked because of the huge numbers the guys on roids were also putting up. The guy had the perfect baseball swing. To bad he was hurt for a couple of seasons due to injury.