[情報] A-Rod: I was stupid

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標題: [情報] A-Rod: I was stupid
時間: Tue Feb 10 03:38:10 2009

A-Rod admits, regrets use of PEDs

His voice shaking at times, Alex Rodriguez met head-on allegations that he
tested positive for steroids six years ago, telling ESPN on Monday that he
did take performance-enhancing drugs while playing for the Texas Rangers
during a three-year period beginning in 2001.

"When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I
needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day," Rodriguez told
ESPN's Peter Gammons in an interview in Miami Beach, Fla. "Back then,
[baseball] was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young, I was
stupid, I was naive. I wanted to prove to everyone I was worth being one of
the greatest players of all time.

"I did take a banned substance. For that, I'm very sorry and deeply
regretful."

Rodriguez's admission comes 48 hours after Sports Illustrated reported that
Rodriguez was on a list of 104 players who tested positive for banned
substances in 2003, the year when Major League Baseball conducted survey
tests to see if mandatory, random drug-testing was needed in the sport.

Sources who know about the testing results told SI that Rodriguez tested
positive for testosterone and Primobolan, an anabolic steroid. In his ESPN
interview, Rodriguez said he did not know exactly which substance or
substances he had taken. In 2003, there were no penalties for a positive
result.

"I am sorry for my Texas years," the New York Yankees third baseman said.
"I apologize to the fans of Texas."

Rodriguez, who joined the Yankees for the 2004 season after a trade from
Texas, said "all my years in New York have been clean." He also said it felt
good to be honest about what he's done in the past.

"The more honest we can all be, the quicker we can get baseball [back] to
where it needs to be," he said.

Rodriguez said he was told by Gene Orza, the chief operating officer of the
MLB Players' Association, that he might, or might not, have tested positive
in the 2003 survey. A source told ESPN on Saturday that Rodriguez knew he
had failed the test.

"I had never heard anything since," he said. "Whatever I was experimenting
with in Texas might have been OK."

Rodriguez also said of his 2007 interview with Katie Couric on "60 Minutes,"
when he denied ever using steroids, that "at the time, I wasn't being
truthful with myself. How could I be truthful with Katie Couric or CBS?"


http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3894847

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推 wainn:相信在洋基的他
推 devilsky:支持的還是支持
推 wainn:沒錯.....
推 bluestars:有點難過，但還是支持他！
推 QQ5566:gg
推 alfren:I was stupid, I was naive. 好傻好天真~~(好熟的話)@@
推 shongzcwea:不是很懂為什麼可以怪A-ROD 又沒有證據證明他那時吃的
→ shongzcwea:是違反那時大聯盟規定的藥品 他雖然是神 但他怎麼可能
→ shongzcwea:知道未來這些藥會被禁
推 alfren:類固醇從以前就是運動員的禁藥，這是大家都知道的事情
→ alfren:只是03年之前大聯盟並沒有管制，直到04年後才開始列管
→ alfren:雖說當時a-rod並沒有違反大聯盟規定，但作弊的行為是存在的
推 Jiuliano1412:......
→ alfren:只是覺得因為使用類固醇，而紀錄因此染上汙點，有點可惜了
推 a78544521:囧...就讓它過去吧...我還是會繼續支持他的...
推 fantasy0101:很心寒，一直以來做為一個球迷我已經受夠不真實的比賽
→ fantasy0101:剛開始看到這新聞只覺得不可能，沒想到第二天他就認了
推 ndsl5566:我還是會一直挺A-ROD
推 heyhey309:做沒有規定不行的事叫作弊(筆記)
推 shongzcwea:要看那時候的氛圍吧 如果那時候那種藥當時定義是健康產
→ shongzcwea:品或保健產品 那吃又有什麼錯
推 pttddr:去查查看那時候的歷史背景吧，類固醇在當時已是運動員禁品
→ pttddr:雖說MLB當時未嚴格管制，不代表他靠此藥品提升能力
→ pttddr:不然事後MLB再禁止什麼，或現在a-rod在道歉什麼..
→ pttddr:反正喜歡的人還是會喜歡，不用太在意.只是名人堂可能無望了
→ pttddr:第二行少打,抱歉        不代表他沒靠此藥品提升能力