I'm pretty sure we're going to find out in the coming days that A-Rod is an HGH user too. I hate to be like this because I actually like A-Rod but we know he's a steroid cheat and if he was willing to use PEDs in 2003 there's no reason to believe he wouldn't use a substance that can't be tested for even as late as last season. This doctor is connected with HGH so unfortunately, I have to believe A-Rod has some connection as well. I'm sure he was just using it as part of the 'healing' process though...

For Alex's sake, I hope he just puts everything on the table this time. If he says his connection with this guy was strictly through knowing somebody who works with him and it turns out to be more than that, this will be a bigger headache than he (and the Yankees for that matter) need. Time for Cashman to sit down with this guy and ask him, "hey idiot, how many more surprises are going to come up?" because this is starting to get ridiculous. There is always something with A-Rod.

Great blog.

Yankees Chick,

Love the blog... but I hate this article. It was only a short time ago that you totally ripped into McGwire for "coming out" as a steroid abuser. You act as if this fool A-Rod didn't tip toe around his answers and didn’t keep lying even after he was caught.

Do you know why ESPN sticks with A-Rod as their target? It is because he deserves it. Sure steroids don't make mediocre players like Matt Lawton into superstars... but they do turn stars into superstars. They make career 150hr hitters into career 250-300 hr hitters. They turn 400 homeruns into 500 and 500 into 600 or maybe even 700. They turn great players into legends and that is the worst thing that could have happened to the game.

If only mediocre players could have been the ones to have abused the juice. IF ONLY. Then everything that baseball has stood for in the past 20 years could still be worth something. The few years Brady Anderson and Luis Gonzalez hit 50 homeruns a piece could be erased. But the game you think Arod has a right to still play is completely changed because of liars and cheaters like Clemens, Bonds, A-Rod, Ramirez, Sosa, Palmeiro, McGwire... etc. Go back and look at how many MVP titles since 1985 belong to people who abused and hid in the shadows and lied about it.

No, ARod should be at the front line. They all should be stuck at the front line, and sentenced to live the way Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose did/do. And I hope it hurts when it comes out that he used HGH even after getting caught for Steroids.

This Yankees championship, no matter how amazing a ride, was an embarrassment to me… because Arod helped. Because he didn’t deserve the glory. None of them do. And you are not helping baseball by arguing A- Rod's side right after mocking Mark McGwire. Either you support giving these guys a second chance or you don’t. But in the end… those two men are no different in their crimes or their willingness to lie even when caught… no matter how much you’re willing to lie to yourself.

We'll have to agree to disagree, anon.

The reason I went off on Mcguire was because he blatantly lied about it so often and with such conviction. Had A-Rod denied using steroids to congress, I probably wouldn't be as forgiving - at least of his attitude.

I don't think its right that A-Rod cheated, but I think it's wrong that he should be vilified while others who did the same thing remain glorified just because they didn't get caught. My argument isn't that cheating is a-ok, it's that ALL those who cheated should be exposed so that we can at least make a better judgment over the impact of steroids on the game. If it came out that Pujols, Papi, Hamilton, Howard, and Fielder were all on steroids during their best 2 years, would you still feel that A-Rod should be the only target? Or that what he did was so horrible in general?

(those aren't sarcastic questions - I appreciate your thorough answers and I really am interested in your thoughts!)

Yankees Chick,

thanks for writing back.

Papi WAS caught juicing, but the MLB swept it under that rug. ARod denied using steroids. He lied on National Television to, I believe, Barbara Walters...

But...

I 100% agree that everybody should be exposed and I also think ARod should not be the only one to take the blame... But I don't think he's had it that hard since it all came out. Let's face the facts. The guy was embarrassed, tormented, joked about... and then what? He still got to show up to the ball park, play baseball, and collect one of the many enormous checks that make up his 20 million dollar a year contract. He got away with it... He got away with all of it.

And if other greats like Pujols were found out would I lessen my dislike of ARod? No. Roger Clemens was one of my favorite players of all time. But to consider him now in line to join Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Randy Johnson as one of our era's best pitchers disgusts me. By the way, if it ever came out that Greg Maddux, Ken Griffey Jr or Derek Jeter juiced I would probably stop watching baseball forever.

This isn't and never was an ARod bashing session. It's a cheater bashing session. I was once accused of being a "Manny Basher" because I tried to convince a crowd of people at a Dodgers game to turn their backs on him when he came up to bat.

The point is, ARod cheated and so he is grouped in with the others. If Pujols were caught, whether he cried like a baby or lied or fessed up wouldn't make a difference. He would just join Arod in the group of players I turn my back on when at live games, or make phone calls during their at-bats on TV. I do hope Pujols never juiced though...

because in general whether a lot of people abused steroids or it was only a select few, steroid use remains a crime against the sport and against the fans... especially the children who grow up wanting to be like these guys and eventually learn that they need to damage their bodies to do so.