A-ROD HITS HOMER #600!

[Red Ranger]

After a long wait, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees hit homer #600 today, three years to the day he hit #500. Woo-hoo!

Here's the video. Plus, here's a sobering article about the achievement in light of the age of steroids.

 

[Danny99]

So he finally remembered to take his steroid shot?

A-Rod is a sham. Just because he admitted his use, doesn't make him any better.

 

[sidious618]

So he finally remembered to take his steroid shot?

A-Rod is a sham. Just because he admitted his use, doesn't make him any better.

I'd put good money on all baseball players using something, if not steroids. It's not a wholesome game and it never really has been.

 

[Red Ranger]

^Sidious is correct. We have no idea what stuff baseball players of old used to enhance their performance. It may not have been steroids, but it may have been something else. Our ever-watchful media culture is the reason players like Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa got caught. And I doubt A-Rod is on the juice now because of the media attention. It's also worth noting that A-Rod came clean about it.

 

[Danny99]

I still don't have to like A-Rod.

I'm not naive to believe enough that most athletes are clean. How can football players, lineman specifically, get to be so big and still be able to compete? How do baseball players hit balls 400 feet on a regular basis?

The pursuit of money and glory has turned professional athletes to these drugs and a severe culture shock is needed.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

We now know that Babe Ruth used corked bats a good percentage of the time. Pitchers in the 60's and 70's like Gaylord Perry and Whitey Ford were notorious for throwing spitballs. Even statistics themselves can be called in to question. Is it fair to compare the batting statistics of players in the pitcher friendly 60's to the batter friendly 90's? How about players having to deal with the different dimensions of ball fields? And if a juiced up batter faced a juiced up pitcher does that negate it for both?

 

[sidious618]

I still don't have to like A-Rod.

He's a dick. That's why I love him; he's hilarious.

 

[RAMA]

Awesome! Congrats Arod! Hes actually pretty humble for a superstar.

RAMA

 

[Red Ranger]

Hey, he managed to boff Madonna. For that alone, I tip my hat to him!

 

[Jack Bauer]

I can't get over those weird pictures from that magazine a few months back where it looked like A-Rod was about to make love to himself. Twas real creepy.

 

[Garak]

I guess only New Yorkers are excited about A-Rod hitting 600 homers, the majority of which he was juiced up for. He's no superstar, just another cheat that cut corners to make a big paycheck. What a joke, just like the game of baseball.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Yeah, in the 'roids era it's really hard to get exciting about stuff like this. Fucking cheaters are ruining the game.

 

[Aragorn]

Also, anyone know what this reporter is trying to ask him:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE6u5k2JvQk[/yt]

 

[SVD]

Also, anyone know what this reporter is trying to ask him:

[ yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE6u5k2JvQk[/yt ]

So THAT'S how you embed a YouTube video in these boards!

On the audio itself: Laydee, with no accent, A-Rod is fluent in English, no need for (what appeared to me as) stumbling around with Spanish.

As to what she's asking about, I think she was trying to get his reaction to the fact that the ball was taken and put into that hall..whatever, and not in a fan's possession.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

After a long wait, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees hit homer #600 today, three years to the day he hit #500. Woo-hoo!

Here's the video. Plus, here's a sobering article about the achievement in light of the age of steroids.

So he finally remembered to take his steroid shot?

A-Rod is a sham. Just because he admitted his use, doesn't make him any better.

I still don't have to like A-Rod.

I'm not naive to believe enough that most athletes are clean. How can football players, lineman specifically, get to be so big and still be able to compete? How do baseball players hit balls 400 feet on a regular basis?

The pursuit of money and glory has turned professional athletes to these drugs and a severe culture shock is needed.

Here's another article denouncing A-ROD's so-called 'accomplishments':

This week, our lovable Toronto Blue Jays played chumps to baseball’s latest chapter of false idolatry.

On Wednesday afternoon, Jays starter Shaun Marcum surrendered a first-inning home run to Alex Rodriguez, the 600th of A-Rod’s intriguing and divisive career, a number that places him in the top seven home run hitters of all time. But after the game, Marcum downplayed his involvement in the big moment.

"I'm not really worried about it,” said Marcum. “Because I'm sure he's going to hit another 150 or 200, so it's no big deal."

So Marcum isn’t losing sleep over A-Rod’s admittance to the 600 Club, and neither am I.

Selena Roberts’ 2009 unauthorized biography of the iconic slugger, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, paints him as a deeply insecure misfit who was scarred for life after being abandoned by his father at the age of 10. More importantly, the book revealed Rodriguez’s involvement in baseball’s steroid era, and prompted his admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003. According to A-Rod, he took PEDs to live up to the pressure of his infamous $252 million contract.

The 156 homers he hit those three seasons may count towards his all-time total, but they don’t figure into my judgment of whether Rodriguez is one of the greats. To me, a steroid-assisted milestone simply doesn’t matter, and I wish Rodriguez’s accomplishment had been met with far less fanfare. Some have argued that since steroids weren’t exactly a hot ticket issue for MLB brass until the release of the Mitchell Report in 2007, A-Rod, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire should be forgiven for using them to etch their names in the history books. I disagree, and I hope that the only place guys like Sosa, McGwire, and Roger Clemens get in the Hall of Fame is a dark and foreboding mention in the Steroid Wing.

A-Rod's meaningless milestone

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

It's funny that there is this reaction to A-Rod because not 5 minutes after Barry hit no. 756 sportswriters and sports-talk radio hosts unanimously said "well it won't matter for long because A-Rod is going to pass him eventually". A-Rod was the knight in PED-free armor who was going to save the integrity of baseball again. I predict around May 2014 Albert Pujols will be crowned the new savior. If they find out he did steroids there just might be some mass suicides.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I was there, I saw it! The ball landed in Monument Park so no one was there to catch (and make money off of) it.

 

[RAMA]

Too bad steroids arent legal...they were banned by kneejerk reactionism AGAINST the advice of scientific experts (3 separate organizations) to Congress...used with supervision they could be a great force for recovery and performance, as a supplement to the usual training...and in fact they WERE by a large majority of players during that time period. Ah well, I guess we can go on letting the vast uninformed public think that its cheating and pretend that no one used or is using them anymore...I hope Arod is using HGH, I really do. Quite frankly its a shame Babe Ruth hit that many home runs as an alcoholic, unhealthy fat guy

RAMA

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I honestly could give a damn about this whole steroid thing. People are slinging mud at A-Rod and other players when they really live in glass houses to begin with. And as much as A-Rod likes to ham it up for the camera and all that, I believe him when he says he hasn't been using the stuff since he's been a Yankee.

Just wish he'd hit the HR just a few feet to the right, though, dammit.

 

[Danny99]

I honestly could give a damn about this whole steroid thing. People are slinging mud at A-Rod and other players when they really live in glass houses to begin with. And as much as A-Rod likes to ham it up for the camera and all that, I believe him when he says he hasn't been using the stuff since he's been a Yankee.

I don't live in a glass house, I give everything I got when I play sports and even though I'm not a superstar, I don't shoot needles up my ass to be one.