06/08/2013

DRUG CHEAT :World most Paid Athlete Runing A Race of His Life Time.

Alex Rodriguez joins Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens in the group of sports stars who thought the rules did not apply to them. Despite his riches and fame, he has been shamed. A-Rod as he is called by fans of Base Ball still struggling to come to terms with this latest development why some have suggested that call a quit in the game. Rodriguez was one of the most prodigious young players scouts had ever seen and is now considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. However, Rodriguez has led a highly controversial career due to his expensive contracts and his admission of using illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
The Biogenesis scandal, which has dogged Alex Rodriguez for months, came to a head after MLB handed him a 211-game ban. Maybe Alex Rodriguez thinks he won something Monday because he got to play a game for the Yankees in Chicago. Maybe he thinks he somehow won here because even if he loses his appeal on the historic suspension handed down by Major League Baseball, he gets to keep at least $60 million. But Rodriguez, who can act like an amazing dim bulb, knows better. He knows he lost big on this day, even if he was the center of all the attention he has always craved, the photographers still tracking every move and the reporters still hanging on every word. For now. He has been shamed here, and knows it, whether he can still hit a little or not. Sports fans deserve better than this guy the way voters deserve better than horny, dishonest politicians. Rodriguez has been shamed no matter how rich he is, and even if he stays rich for the rest of his life. People remember what they want to remember about their sports stars, and Rodriguez has to know that he has a great chance to be remembered as the same kind of drug cheat that Lance Armstrong is, and Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens, and all the other stars who thought the rules of their sport did not apply to them.
There will always be athletes looking for an edge and pushers like Anthony Bosch waiting to help them. Maybe you think sports like baseball and cycling are fighting a losing game here. Tell that to the dozen players who got banged on Monday because of Anthony Bosch’s Biogenesis clinic. Tell Lance Armstrong. You want to keep prosecuting baseball for not doing enough in the past, have at it. But no sport ever made a bigger and more important statement than Major League Baseball did with Rodriguez, who appealed his suspension, and the other 12 guys — and their union — who accepted the sanctions handed down to them Monday by Commissioner Bud Selig. And listen to Travis Tygart, the tough, honest guy who runs the United States Anti-Doping Association and who took down Lance Armstrong, even though Armstrong — another bum and liar with performance-enhancing drugs — had been racing away from the law of his sport for years the way he had been racing away from the other riders in the Tour de France. No wonder the same people who believed the lie with Armstrong now want to believe that Rodriguez is the victim of something other than his own arrogance and insecurities.

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