Alex Rodriguez has admitted that he used steroids, telling ESPN that he used the performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03 while at Texas.
“When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day” said Rodriguez.
“And I did take a banned substance and, you know, for that I’m very sorry and deeply regretful. And although it was the culture back then and Major League Baseball overall was very — I just feel that — you know, I’m just sorry. I’m sorry for that time. I’m sorry to fans. I’m sorry for my fans in Texas. It wasn’t until then that I ever thought about substance of any kind, and since then I’ve proved to myself and to everyone that I don’t need any of that.”
“Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid,” Rodriguez said. “I was naive, and I wanted to prove to everyone that, you know, I was worth, you know — and being one of the greatest players of all time.”
Rodriguez will be remembered…as one of the biggest drug cheats of all time.
The confession follows Rodriguez being named by Sports Illustrated as a drug cheat February 7.
update: here’s the video
if A-Rod (A-Roid?) had used steroids i would have expected him to get a lot more “huge” like Bonds of McGuire
In a special festive Jewish holiday Purim section of The Forward this week dubbed “Backward” for its amusing stories and spins on current news events, Hasdai Westbrook writes a satire on Alex Rodriguez's admitted drug use, calling it “admitted Kabbalah use.”
“In a tearful televised confession, New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez yesterday confirmed long-rumored allegations of performance-enhancing kabbalah use during a live interview with ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons. Citing pressure to stay competitive, Rodriguez acknowledged resorting to the practice of esoteric Jewish mysticism on multiple occasions since being introduced to its mysterious and perplexing power by pop chanteuse and rumored paramour Madonna, a prominent Kabbalangelist.
“I want to apologize to the fans,” said Rodriguez. “I was young and naïve. It was a loosey-goosey time in baseball and I thought the shining light of the Zohar would give me that push I needed, without over-investigating what I was studying, to get me to the next level.”
Rodriguez maintained that he did not know precisely what kabbalistic aids he made use of, explaining that such knowledge belongs exclusively to the realm of “Ein Sof” — the “Sefirah” or “emanation” of God that is without limit and beyond human understanding.
But recent urine tests indicated the presence in his system of Sodolan, a potent klippot-blocker known to break down the primeval “husks” of impurity that can inhibit spiritual growth and bat speed. “I knew I wasn’t taking Hamantashen,” Rodriguez acknowledged, refusing to go into further detail.
The revelations came as rabbinical authorities moved to indict controversial Kabbalah coach and Madonna confidante Feivel “Rav Berg” Gruberger, of the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre, on charges of illicitly trafficking in red kabbalah wristbands and kabbalah-inspired injunctions against demon-sperm-producing male masturbation. Rodriguez refused to confirm whether Gruberger was his supplier.
Kabbalah use, along with Jobu worship and various other forms of performance-boosting transmundane rituals, is officially barred by Major League Baseball, though no punishment is currently in place. Side effects of kabbalah include possession by dybbuks and severe hypogonadism.
“Kabbalah has been very, very good to me,” an emotional Rodriguez declared on the program. “But it’s a dead end. I want to tell all the kids out there to stay off the K.”
http://forward.com/articles/103579/