Alex Rodriguez admitted, in an interview with Peter Gammons yesterday, that he took steroids from 2001 to 2003.
This is incredible!!! A-Rod has been the face of Major League Baseball for the past couple of years -- DURING all the Bonds-steroids hoopla -- and now this comes out.
53. Does this permanently ruin A-Rod's legacy? Or will he be able to rehabilitate his reputation more than Bonds and Mark McGuire because he's a more likable person?
54. WHO within Major League Baseball knew about his positive tests, for the past five years, and kept it covered-up? Will the cover-up become a huge story (bigger than the positive tests themselves?)?
Mike Wise, in today's Washington Post, says that there is a still-kept-secret list of players who tested positive; he argues that MLB needs to release the remaining names immediately (evidently, Thomas Boswell argued to the contrary yesterday): "Baseball or the federal government, which seized the list, should release the names of every player who tested positive for a banned substance in 2003, if for no reason than it would clear the names of more than 600 major league players who refused to sully the game or themselves that year. The notion that a whole generation of players must have aspersions cast on their careers because a known number of their workforce at the time, in fact, did test positive is just plain wrong-headed."
55. How have the Orioles managed to stay so bad for so long?
56. Will athletes' salaries go down as a result of the recession?
57. Leigh Hughes mentioned Centsports to me today. Is it catching on (a tipping point) at the moment, about to become a phenomenon (a la Texas Hold 'Em a few years back)?
58. The $800 billion stimulus package amount: How did that figure become the starting point? Why not $400 billion or $1.2 trillion? Who set the initial baseline?
