Well, heck, I didn’t see Mario recant before I posted my little screed.

Sorry for piling on.

Re: this…pitiful attempt to turn association into an accusation against A-Rod…

Yeah, he never hit 40 HRs before 1998.

But he turned 22 in 1998. Has anyone ever heard of a ballplayer maturing physically?

But there’s also this: In 1996, two years before the timeframe for this silly insinuation, and therefore BEFORE hew was “Tainted” by the Cansecos, as a 20-yr old, his 1st full season in the majors, he hit 36 HRs. He also had 54 doubles, a number he hasn’t gotten within 10 of in 11 seasons since. He had over 90 EBH, something he has not done since. He also slugged .631, which, until this season, was his career HIGH, in spite of two 50+ HR seasons in Texas, and two MVP awards.

Where do we go from here…A-Rod taught Canseco how to juice it up?

Well, congrats on admitting your were wrong. That’s RARE on the Internet. So thumbs-up on the retraction. Sorry I came on like a pitbull, Wax. I hate when accusations fly around without proof. I don’t agree with you about A-Rod being a juicer, however.

The saddest thing about this entire situation is that we’ll never get to appreciate ANY player’s performance without someone, somewhere raising an eyebrow about it.

First the snide comments about Cashman and now reverting to the anti Arod obsession

Reminds me why I didn’t visit this site for over a year

First of all, thanks for the link to my post. It was not meant to be taken as factual just because of what Ozzie said. Besides, all he mentioned is that a bunch of major leaguers worked out there with Jose, as a way to brag, I believe. I asked him who out of curiosity, not as a way to find out any secret information. This is before this whole Steroid thing took over baseball.

That being said, I do believe A-Rod is a Juicer. We may not find out tomorrow at 2 PM when the Mitchell report drops, we may not even find out before he hits his 800th homerun in a few years but one day it will be out in the open.

Again, thanks for the link and to BaileyWalk, I responded to your post and will make a retraction. I was foolish to use Wikipedia as my source.

-Mario Alejandro

Well, to change course;

Tejada to the Stros

Fukudome to the Cubs

Of course you didn’t Raf – how else would you then be able to get on me about it? {wink}

BTW, by NO WAY – whatsoever – am I suggesting that Alex did anything here.
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FWIW, I didn’t read it that way.

~~~You write “Ever hear that ol’ logic that says ‘If you hang around in a barber shop long enough, eventually you’ll get a haircut’?” ~~~

FWIW, that was an attempt at a joke.