Maybe The Steroids Affected A-Rod's Memory - Page 3

Author: Kaye
Published: February 10, 2009 at 10:53 am

And what about the Yankees? By the looks of things, they are standing behind A-Fraud:

Rodriguez has four fewer World Series rings than Derek Jeter or Mariano Rivera, but at this stage in their careers, Rodriguez, not the other iconic Yankees, is the face of the franchise. Because Rodriguez is tied to the Yankees for nine more years and about $250 million, he is the player the team is built around, tainted or not.

So, even though Rodriguez admitted to being a cheat, the Yankees have taken the stance that he is their reformed cheat and that they will support him. Unless the Yankees were willing to take a monstrous financial hit to try to shed Rodriguez, something they did not consider, their only option was to back him and trust that he told the truth by saying his steroid use ended six years ago.

So, if you are a professional athlete making millions upon millions of dollars, it is okay to take illegal drugs (one of the drugs in his system is illegal to market or sell in the US), as long as you come "clean" about it...eventually, when you're forced to by somebody who found the evidence, and after you've already lied about it for years. You'll still collect your full paycheck, you'll still get all your benefits, you don't have to worry about things like your home being taken away or ending up on the streets or your children starving...because you can hit a ball and run real fast. Oh, and as far as the drugs being illegal in the US? Well, it wasn't against baseball law at the time, so it's okay after all. You know, loosey-goosey.

Don't get me wrong, I love sports. I've got teams and individuals I follow and am fans of in the sports world. I've spent my hard-earned money supporting my favorite sports. I believe that sport does offer us a welcome respite from the pressures of the real world, a chance to sit for a few hours and just enjoy watching a ball game or a race or a match. But what do these people do, really, that makes them worth $250 million dollars? And what makes them so special that, when they are forced to admit they took illegal drugs, they can still participate in their chosen field?

Back in the day when I worked a real job, we had this little thing called a drug policy. Basically, it was this...if you showed up at work on drugs, you got fired. My husband works a real job, and they have a drug policy. If you show up for work on drugs, you get fired. In A-Rod Land, you show up for work, get your drugs at work, and collect millions of dollars. Score!