Poor Alex Rodriguez. He’s being hit with a 211 game suspension which will basically end his career as a professional baseball player. I remember when he came to the Mariners as a rookie. He was very young and extremely talented, but not the sharpest pencil in the box. After his big contract move to Texas, it must have been hard to say no to someone who promised better performance with just a few shots. Others were doing it and he saw how it helped them. No one would know. And it did help.
Now the rest of the story about how harmful these shots, pills, or rubs really are, comes out. I imagine Alex along with a number of other baseball players would say no now, but it must have been much more difficult when each was in their early twenties and on their own. These athletes take the blame but there has to have been a culture within baseball that allowed this drug abuse to get to this level. We can blame fans for wanting more home runs, owners who want more fans, and managers and coaches who want more wins. Alex just didn’t know how to say no. There’s a whole lot more who didn’t get caught, not only in baseball, but many other sports. I’m not sure what I would have done facing the same predicament at that age. I hope the values my mother and father instilled in me would have prevented my trying any of them, but money and fame are powerful drugs.
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