New Arod Allegations

Arod must be close to playing again, because here come the new Arod stories of the week.  In Selena Roberts new book, she has found one of Arod's ex-high school teammates who says Arod was juicing in school and that the coach also knew about it.  This is the same Selena Roberts from Sports Illustrated who revealed Arod was one of the 104 players who had tested positive for steroids during the "anonymous" testing period in 2003.  Roberts also reveals anonymous Yankee players and a clubhouse guy saw Arod and former Yankee pitcher Kevin Brown possessing HGH in 2004.  Other unnamed Yankee sources says Arod exhibited signs of steroid side effects.  

My initial reaction to these recent allegations is skepticism.  Of course, this will instantly lead to my wife calling me an Arod apologist, which I readily admit.  An ex-teammate in high school?  This could have been the team geek that Arod and his buddies duct-taped to the locker room bench and this guy has an axe to grind.  Maybe Arod forgot who this guy was when he asked Arod for free tickets when he made it to the Big Show.  Is this source really reliable?  As for Arod's anonymous teammates - what happened to the clubhouse code?  Give us your names, you gutless pukes.  Let Arod face his accusers.  And if you're going to name names, are you telling us Arod and Brown were the only juicers in the clubhouse?  Give us all the names! And would those 2 players be that stupid to be seen with HGH?  Well, maybe Brown would - he did punch a wall and broke his hand once.  

I'll be the first to admit if this was Big Sloppy or The Nugget, Youkilis, or that fraud Varitek, I'd be all over those guys and Sox fans.  That's part of the fun.  But, I'd still think the sources were somewhat shady - I just would never admit it to my friends, who root for that unlikeable team.

In the meantime, I hope Arod is taking HGH, with a legal prescription of course, so he can speed his way to a full recovery and spare Yankee fans the likes of Cody Ransom, Angel Berroa and Ramiro Pena.  For the record, if Arod or any other player tests positive for any banned or illegal substance, I'm actually in agreement with Big Sloppy - boot them for a year (although I believe Sloppy made this comment to hide his own shameful truth).  I also think those who tested positive should be tested everyday on their return from exile, with the costs of those tests coming out of the players pocket.  Why not make their salary the league minimum, too, since technically, they may have been cheating for a bigger pay day or causing some other guy at a shot.  Of course, MLB doesn't have the cajones to stand up to the union to make any of this happen.