DENVER --Alex Rodriguez opted out of his $252 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees on Sunday in what appears to be the end of his career with New York. Rodriguez's decision, announced by agent Scott Boras during Game 4 of the World Series, makes him eligible to become a free agent.
Did A-Rod agree to the timing of the announcement?
Seriously, Boras, A-Rod, were you really trying to upstage the World Series and the teams that were participating?
How tacky, worse than announcing your birthday.
You're both missing a part of your brain and it's been replaced by greed.
Eeyore was half way across the road when he saw our rental car bombing down the dirt road. He turn, walked back and waited for us to pass. The goats were not so polite.
Having accidentally entered a ladies room earlier in the week, I feared I had made the same mistake but upon leaving the symbol on the door did say caballeros.
If I had a giant donut, I would wash it frequently to avoid having a dingy donut. I think a soot encrusted donut might repel first time customers and drive by traffic.
In the running for worst job ever though the sanican man probably has him beat.
I am getting tired of athletes that admit to unknowingly using performance enhancing drugs.
Jones said her former coach, Trevor Graham, gave her the substance, telling her it was the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and said she should take it by putting two drops under her tongue.
In the past, Jones has vehemently denied using steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs.
Jones said she "trusted [Graham] and never thought for one second" she was using a performance-enhancing drug until after she left Graham's Raleigh, N.C.-based training camp at the end of 2002. "Red flags should have been raised when he told me not to tell anyone about" the supplement program, she said in the letter. She also said she noticed changes in how her body felt and how she was able to recover from workouts. ~Amy Shipley, Washington Post via the LA Times, 10/4/07
Gimme a break. You took the drugs, to get the medals, to get the millions in endorsement deals. You got caught. Come clean, don't tell me you were duped. America has a powerful ability to forgive it's fallen heroes, provided they accept responsibility for their actions.
The only thing worse than Marion Jones' cheating is that she can't even admit that she knowingly did it. She and other athletes in her situation think they can somehow absolve themselves of responsibility and save some of their reputation by saying they didn't know.
Please, your strength increases, you're quicker, you recover faster and this happened why, because what, you worked harder. Come on. You are professional athletes, your body is your livelihood, do you mean to tell me you don't know what every substance you ingest or apply to your body is!?
I recall a statistic from a college sociology class that listed the percentage of athletes that would knowingly take steroids that would eventually kill them provided they would win a gold medal. I don't have the article at my fingertips and I can't recall the number but the percentage of athletes that said yes was staggering.
The list of athletes using the flaxseed oil excuse is growing. Here are two other unfortunate athletes who unwittingly took performance enhancing drugs.
Barry Bonds, Outfielder for the San Francisco Giants
Sean Merriman, Linebacker for the San Diego Chargers
Merriman's lawyer, David Cornwell, blamed the positive test on a banned substance called nandrolone, and said Merriman unwittingly ingested the substance, which was present in one of his supplements. Nandrolone, however, is an anabolic steroid and is on the list of the NFL's banned substances. ~ESPN, 10/25/06
At least New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi (above left) had the courage (though lets not give him too much credit, it got him a pass in the eyes of Commissioner Bud Selig) to admit him was on the bean.
After admitting to using HGH, New England Patriots safety Rodney Harrison offered the following apology.
"I've made no excuses and I will not make excuses," Harrison said. "I sent the wrong message with my actions. This is a mistake and this is something that I've done." ~ESPN, 9/2/07
I have no illusion that many if not a large portion of professional athletes (except pro wrestlers of course) are taking some sort of performance enhancing drugs. I might even be willing to hear them out on the level playing field argument but once caught don't continue to lie.
While on the east coast, my father & I went to see Jack Kerouac's original, On the Roadmanuscript.
Unfortunately, only about 30 feet of the scroll was unrolled. Had the entire manuscript been unfurled, I would have stayed all day to read it from beginning to end.
A close second to being able to read the type that Kerouac laid down was that the exhibit inspired my father to read OTR for the first time.
The scroll will be at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts through October 14th 2007.
Next stop for the scroll is the New York Public Library (11/9/07-2/22/08) followed by the University of Texas, Austin (3/7/08-5/31/08).
I'm not sure what those little pills are all about. I don't think they have anything to do with baseball but if you want to prevent pregnancy and moderate acne at the same time, they may be what your looking for.
