He should have come clean way way before being confronted by it now.

That's what most people say. It's easy to feel that way, and is the ethical approach. I also feel any steroid use is sending the wrong message to kids due to the health concerns, and it's an unfair and unlevel playing field with justification for asterisks next to any record associated with a juiced athlete.

However, in this specific instance he tested positive in what was supposed to be an anonymous test that was leaked illegally to the public. MLB should have known how dangerous such a list would be in the wrong hands and should have burned the testing materials right then and there.

Rodriguez was one of roughly 104 MLB players who all tested positive. And he had no legal obligation or requirement to reveal OR conceal anything as were the criteria for that testing program which was intended not to punish or single anyone out, but let MLB baseball know the seriousness of steroid use in their league.

Should Rodriguez have spoken out anyway, even if not asked to or named in any book, media report or heresay document? Ethically speaking, yes. But if you hold him accountable, so should you equally hold all 104 of the others who tested positive. The truth is, he did what anyone else would have done!

Even though anyone who decides not to self incriminate might be construed as immoral or any other descriptors that evoke shame or nefarious intent, that's how our system works and I can't blame him for that.

I do blame him for using the drugs, not asking the right questions, and succumbing naively to peer pressure as a young player. He's of poor character.

As are all 104 other players, and all the big names, and even Conseco. That's why they call it the Steroid Era. Now let's move on, fix the problem, and continue the game. What happened to Rodriguez really is old news.

yeah, lets hang him and let Bush and Cheney get off scott free. I say give them all steroids. It makes them huge and more fun to watch.

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> yeah, lets hang him and let Bush and Cheney get
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> makes them huge and more fun to watch.


"scott free"? is that the name of someone you know that they should be getting off, or were you trying to say these people should get off "scot free"? Inquiring minds want to know...

I just knew that rod would cause trouble...
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... I need bail money as I have been BUSTED by teh WUP

How is SI's action not a HIPA violation?

what i dont understand is how does this come out now? 6 years after the fact

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> How is SI's action not a HIPA violation?


It is. Whoever printed this story should be in jail until the source is leaked. If this information keeps being leaked, no one is going to cooperate in fixing the game of baseball. All we know now is that 103 others failed a test, and we will hear about that forever, until they are eventually leaked.

Baseball = steroidball

A disgusting sport? you must be an NBA fan, trying to pawn your disgustingness off on other sports.