When one hears the name "Alex Rodriguez", thoughts that come to mind may be, high baseball salary, divorce, and a certain pop star. Much like all of the great athletes of our time, there my have to be asterisk added to any statistic A-Rod has.
Rodriguez's name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's '03 survey testing, SI's sources say. 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.
When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results. "You'll have to talk to the union," said Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman since his trade to New York in February 2004. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."
Luckily for A-Rod, penalties for steroid use were not imposed until 2004, so A-Rod is safe from any legal action, for now. A-Rod has been free from such scandal for so long, probably because of actions of Barry Bonds, but the truth is that we really have no legit players in any sport now. It seems that everyone is tainted, and being the best you can be really means, being the best I ought to be with extra help.
