While his steroid test back then was supposed to stay anonymous, that shouldn’t stop Major League Baseball from suspending Alex Rodriguez. This is yet another black eye to the sport — at a time when the steroid talk was finally dying down.

Whether he’s suspended or not, Rodriguez will now always be viewed as a tainted athlete. He could take blood tests for the next decade but everyone will equate Rodriguez with steroids. Tough break but it’s hard to feel sorry for a guy who cheated.

If commissioner Bud Selig were a smart businessman (try to hold your laughs), he would release all the names of the players who have tested positive. Get all the bad news out of the way. If he doesn’t, this steroid era will just drag on and on and on.

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Alex Rodriguez Should Be Suspended – ARoid

Here we go again. Super-agent Scott Boras is making news in Major League Baseball. This time, Boras has informed the Pittsburgh Pirates that his client, Pedro Alvarez, will not be signing the contract they agreed to on August 15.

Alvarez was the Pirates’ first-round pick in the June MLB First-Year Player Draft. However, the MLB Players Association is filing a grievance on behalf of Alvarez, stating that the two parties agreed to the contract after the midnight deadline on Aug. 15.

I’m pretty sure we all know what’s going on here. Alvarez chose Boras because he knew he was the guy to bring him big money. However, Alvarez probably wanted to get a deal done and now Boras was probably in Alvarez’s ear telling him they will pay more money if we make a scene. Classic super-agent drama. The kind that needs to go away.

The Pirates are trying to fight back to placing Alvarez on MLB’s restricted list. We’ll just have to see which side wins out. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, this was a good player that could have helped their club in the next couple of years. It would be nice for him to get some time in the minor leagues before they bring him up to help turn around the franchise. But it’s times like these that I really, really hate agents.

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Boras tells Pirates ‘no-go’ on top pick’s contract

John Rocker claims that Bud Selig knew that Rocker was on steroids way back in 2000. Rocker added, hey, look at me! Remember me? The Mets hated me. I was in Sports Illustrated. Selig and MLB quickly retorted that this was 2000, back when MLB didn’t care if you were on steroids or not.

“As part of the disciplinary process, Mr. Rocker was referred to the confidential Employee Assistance Program,” Major League Baseball said in a statement. “Any test of Mr. Rocker would have been conducted by professionals who ran the EAP. Those professionals were obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the result and to use it in developing a treatment and education program for Mr. Rocker. Further discipline was not an option legally available to Major League Baseball at that time.”

See, baseball didn’t know because steroids weren’t a problem back then.

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