"Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. You're scared of the truth. I'm tired of the lies. Cause who I am is where you want to be." -Lie to me by 12 Stones-
Lyrics from a song fitting for the recent A-Rod revelation.
A-Rod once again aired the dirty laundry, but this time with the New York media yesterday. Adding salt to MLB's wound, Bud Selig doesn't want to take blame for all of the steroid mess that has been a dark cloud over baseball since Barry Bonds raked 71 bombs in 2001. What was telling to me about A-Rod yesterday was not only the cousin getting him the juice, but he said he did not know what he was taking. We've heard it from Bonds and others. It's obvious the B.S. radar is roaring like a siren. What I don't understand is that Americans, evolving into a health concious culture, would probably ask many questions before they ever injected, ingested, etc, anything in their body. Most people would want to know the risks, benefits, side effects, the danger. Most people would be just one notch above a junkie to take such a risk with their bodies. Besides, if you're taking something you got off a crate in Costa Rica, you'd like to know what the hell it is before just diving in head first with everyone else. I believe the media and society will be less harsh on A-Rod than they would be with Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, only for the fact he finally came clean. It's a big story only because A-Rod has the richest contract in baseball and he's one of the faces of the game. Now only if they had a P.E.D that would help him in clutch situations.
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