A-Rod is His Own Worst Enemy
When I heard about the little bottle in Mark McGwire’s lock, I was highly disappointed. By the time BALCO and Barry Bonds were pasted all over the news, I wasn’t surprised anymore. Still, I thought to myself, “It will be nice to see A-Rod beat the home run record because he’s been clean all these years.”
Despite the fact that numerous stories have swirled around him, from needing a shrink to choking in the clutch to whether or not he was friends with Derek Jeter, I still thought he was a very good ball player. Now, I just see him as another cheat, disappointed in the sport that I have loved and defended my entire life.
Jon Heyman, of Sports Illustrated, claims that the baseball player’s union is to blame. I do not agree. It is not entirely their fault. What happens to A-Rod is his own doing. He chose to take the drugs, regardless of whether the results should have been expunged or not. By choosing to break the law, he took his career into his own hands. He alone decided his fate. The players’ union probably should have destroyed the records, but kept them, for whatever reason. Alex Rodriguez is going to have to live with that. If he had never decided to cheat, he wouldn’t have to worry about being, yet another statistic in a league plagued by cheaters.
