The prodigal son, Alex Rodriguez, has been caught up in once again in a very negative news story. Another scandal to put up on the mantle with his awards. For a person who desired to be the richest man in baseball to have nothing more than the brightest light blazing a hole in his place in the record books. He’s been doing nothing but proving that he’s the showiest player in baseball history.

Whatever you want to call him, A-Rod, A-Fraud, A-Roids, A-God (hardly), not even in kabbalah’s standards. The fact is, he’s been caught one too many times trying to stretch a single into a double. Hell, he tries to go from first to third without touching second. To throw his name in with the like of The Babe, Hank, Willie, Stan would be to lower the historical and most sanctified standards that what makes baseball pure and worth believing in. Believing that it can still be like that again.

As much as we thought that the steroid era was coming to a close, A-Rods admission of using PED’s has already enlarged an already gaping hole. An from watching the interview, Rodriguez hardly looked remorseful. He had to come clean because he was already caught cheating, (not the first time), I.e; Madonna, busty stripper. He claimed he was glad to be “honest” when actually in all honesty, he had already lied in a sit down interview with Katie Couric.

A-Rod will be hounded about this for the rest of his career. Any words that come out of his mouth will never been trusted. He lied to everyone, what makes us believe that he won’t lie again or even believe that he stopped using steroids after 2003? The truth is though, that he has put himself in a class of just another sullied star. An unfortunately, ever growing list. Some of us were finally relieved that the home-run record was someday going to be washed clean of Barry Bond’s hands. Instead, it will be as dirty as before. We all know it should be Hanks still. Only time will tell who it will belong to in the end.

Fortunately, the good news for Alex Rodriquez is that this won’t keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Not by a long shot. He’ll have to pay $16.50 like the rest of us.

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