Selena Roberts, Sports Illustrated's reporter who broke the Alex Rodriguez steroids story, has been hit and absorbed by the snowball she set in motion. The latest turn in this saga came during A-Rod's interview with ESPN, the one in which he admits taking steroids back when he played for the Texas Rangers.
Alex Rodriguez had some choice words to say about Selena Roberts' journalistic tactics, alleging that she was thrown out of his New York City apartment building and the University of Miami campus for stalking him, and that she tried to break into his Miami home where his "children were sleeping."
"I've never set foot in the lobby of Alex's New York apartment building, never spoken to the University of Miami police, and never set foot on his home property or been cited by the Miami Police for doing so," read a statement by Selena Roberts. Sports Illustrated, having been accused by Alex of "pay[ing] this lady, Selena Roberts, to stalk me," issued its own response, that they "stand by the story and the professional manner in which it was reported. Selena Roberts is a distinguished journalist and her reporting in this case led to Alex Rodriguez's admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs."
My Take: I'm completely not surprised to hear proof that A-Rod used steroids during his professional career. He deserves the same shame as any other player who tarnished the reputation of Major League Baseball, let alone the credibility of statistics for, oh, the past 25 years or more. Still, I kind of cringe when I see the gloating hoots and hisses from fellow members of Red Sox nation. I'm a realist, and I'd be no more surprised to learn that David Ortiz took steroids too. I wonder if the pointed accusations about Selena Roberts, Sports Illustrated's new most famous journalist, will have the kind of credibility coming from A-Rod after denying his steroid use in the past. Doubtful.
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Comments: 16
I keep waiting for the string of steroid admissions in pro baseball to end, and it never does. I have been boycotting it for ten years, have not bought a pro baseball ticket in that period.
Liars lie. Having been caught red-handed, he is only coming clean now because he has seen the kind of legal trouble more lying can buy you--Marion Jones prison sentence, for exampld.
But now he's doing everything he can to try to wiggle out of the spotlight of shame, including bringing up a red-herring false accusation against one of his accusers. It's a tactic typical of cowards.
"I was young. I was stupd." Hard to argue with that one, isn't it? The question is, when did he wise up, if ever?
And then he says (even today) that he doesn't even know what he was taking. How unbelievable is that? Even a more stupid than average professional athlete isn't going to put some kind of unidentified substance into his/her body.
Bonds, McGuire, Canseco, A-Rod and all the rest of these cheaters and liars should be banned from baseball for life, and denied induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame, just like Pete Rose.
And if you or your kids are disappointed and let down by a sports hero, shame on you and your dad. You're supposed to be the Heroes. Baseball is no more pure that life itself. Gaining advantgage (Cheating) is and will always be part of the equation.
Of course I know that A-Roid never played for Boston! I was referring to my fellow Red Sox fans, who probably hate Rodriguez more than any one player in the game today (unless you count Clemens). And believe me, they're jeering the loudest right.