Sources tell SI Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003

From page 275:

"When Rodriguez was told by a ballboy that other Yankees players referred to him as "b---h t--s" and "shrinkey d--k", Rodriguez apparently buried and his head in his hands and began to weep openly. But sadness turned quickly to rage and he began almost immediately throwing bats, gloves and helmets around the Yankees lockeroom screaming "it's that f-----r Jeter that's doing all this. F--k that f-----g guy. I'm gonna get him. Him and that sweaty freak Giambi are gonna pay.""

:O

wow

Okay now you guys write some.

lol

i dunno, don't think i can top that one

good work.

hey, maybe alex will read this thread and feel bad

page 279

"When Rodriguez finally confronted Jeter, according to an anonymous trainer in the locker room at the time, Derrick denied any involvement with the nicknames. Teammates immediately cleared the room when Jeter began consoling the teary-eyed Rodriguez and caressing his chest. `When I overheard Jeets assuring Alex that his size didn't matter is when I got the h--l out of there. I quit shortly thereafter.' said the trainer."

xp actually he has. From page 175:

"Rodriguez was particularly troubled by venom direct at him on baseball message boards. "What did I ever do to Alex in SF or NoTimeBeforeTime," he was overheard saying at a popular Manhattan strip club nursing an Amstel Light, "why do these guys hate me? Is it because I'm too good looking?""

I'm hoping Selena's book includes as many spelling and grammatical errors as my posts do.

wow, that's awesome ARod reads I Love Baseball. . . maybe we can get him to post

page 220:

"Unlike other celebrities, including Dr. Phil and Kanye West, Rodriguez refused to post on the world-famous ILX message boards. A clubhouse source says that Rodriguez told him, 'Fuck ILX. Fuck Dr. Morbius. Fuck Steve Shasta,' although the same source says he caught Rodriguez laughing at the Excelsior thread more than once."

page 221:

"Sources close to A-Rod claim the hall of fame bound slugger would spend hours pouring over the ILE tipping thread, trying to make sense of it."

From page 400 (last chapter!):

"After being hospitalized for nearly three weeks (note: to correct a fistula), Rodriguez emerged from the hospital a changed man. Sources close to him claim Rodrigruez had stopped drinking, cut down on womanizing (although a brief fling with Miley Cyrus was reported in the Daily News), and oftening spent only twenty minutes a day admiring himself in the mirror. "He's a different person now," a close friend said, "it's like he cares what I have to say about stuff. He's not looking past you to check out his reflection in car windows. He's still shooting drugs into his groin though. Definitely still doing that."

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"Rodriguez was particularly troubled by venom direct at him on baseball message boards. "What did I ever do to Alex in SF or NoTimeBeforeTime," he was overheard saying at a popular Manhattan strip club nursing an Amstel Light, "why do these guys hate me? Is it because I'm too good looking?""

haha, very Reggie Jackson-esque

On accusations of A-Rod using roids in high school:

“There’s no way,” Dodgers utilityman Doug Mientkiewiczsaid. “I was with him too much, I was with him for too long. Our team was together, like, 20 hours of the day. Every day. Even Sundays. And holidays. I spent like all of Christmas day with Alex one time. We went to the movies that day. Saw Forrest Gump. Didn't like it. Plus we took showers together. We slept in hammocks together. I saw every inch of Alex's body back then and I am a pretty observant guy. I think I would have noticed needle marks on his firm buttocks or rock hard biceps. Or testicular shrinkage. Naw he was clean back then. I'm sure of it. Positive.”

loool at these fanfics

so looking forward to "bitch tits" chants at Fenway during nationally televised broadcasts, this is going to rule

wtffffff

ha ha omg

that letterman bit was the 1st thing i thought of when b---h t--s broke

Alex Rodriguez was an insecure prima donna who made a clubhouse attendant load his toothbrush with toothpaste after every game in his three seasons with the Texas Rangers, a new book charges. The Rangers were also required to send a basket of food to the controversial All-Star's hotel suite during road trips, Sports Illustrated columnist Selena Roberts reports in "A-Rod." Many Texas teammates kept their distance from A-Rod, who they saw as a spoiled superstar. His relationship with other players didn't improve when Rodriguez joined the Yankees in 2004. His Bomber teammates regarded A-Rod as a phony and a hypocrite because he tried to project an All-American public image while pursuing a swinger's lifestyle. During a series in Texas, Roberts writes, A-Rod went to a sex club while his wife, Cynthia, pregnant with their first child, was at home in New York. Rodriguez also turned off teammates by bragging about wild nights with strippers - and by making clumsy passes at other players' wives and girlfriends.

I wonder what kind of toothpaste A-Rod uses.

Hey did you guys hear that A-Rod sez he's going to write a book about Selena Roberts in response. It's called "S-Rob". Apparently she's not well like by her fellow Sports Illustrated writers. Also she blows her nose really loudly. Talks with food in her mouth. Makes Sports Illustrated staffers bring her coffee in the morning. Apparently she's constantly complaining about her lousy sex life and was always trying to get Rick Reilly to take her out on dates.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/shysterball/article/selena-roberts-a-rod-and-impartiality/

http://shysterball.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-york-times-rod-hatchet-job.html

Yeah I think it's clear that the book is not going to be a balanced look at A-Rod: The Man, The Myth.

wow that blog spend a lot of time saying nothing

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/09/13/timesselect/roberts.184.jpg

you know i saw her on tv nine months ago
i was shocked in my minds eye she was a wiry black woman making it big at a big city newspaper

her eye fucked up

"Roberts was hated by the New York Times photographer who took her bio picture. "She kept trying to move the lights around and she kept mispronouncing my name on purpose," said Fred Conrad later, "she was won of the hardest people I've ever had to deal with. The green blouse she ended up wearing well that was like the fifteenth one she tried on and after every change she had to do another string of makeup applications to make sure 'that her complexion matched'." Conrad claimed the craziest part was that end of shoot she gave him her card and whispered that he should call him."

so looking forward to "bitch tits" chants at Fenway during nationally televised broadcasts, this is going to rule

― sanskrit, Friday, May 1, 2009 8:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

the signs pretty much wrote themselves

the boon to red sox fans was the first thing i thought of

wow that blog spend a lot of time saying nothing

not really

lol:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jeff_pearlman/05/01/arod.griffey/index.html?bcnn=yes

Less than a year ago, people were not merely speculating how many career home runs he would hit (800? 850? 900? 950?), but also how his name atop the all-time list would return Aaron-esque decency to a record book poisoned by Bonds' regrettable presence. Rodriguez was the Brad Pitt of baseball -- the pretty boy with chops who could carry a big-budget adventure through the summer.

Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous. Instead, Rodriguez brings to mind a slightly different fabled theatrical figure -- one who, 20 years ago, took America by storm. At the time, we fell in love with Spuds MacKenzie because the bull terrier brought spark and pizzazz to the otherwise mundane world of beer advertising. He was cute and funny and talented and engrossing.

Then, we learned the truth. Spuds, a lady-killer in ads, was actually a girl. Her real name was Honey Tree Evil Eye, and she didn't even like beer.

Turns out, ol' Spuds MacKenzie was nothing special after all.

Just another dog.

Selena Roberts book on Spuds was just brutal. Apparently he liked to tear up flower beds! And he once peed on a baby carriage. Other dogs didn't like him at the dog park, etc. . .

that's maybe the most hilarious sub-plaschke reach for significance i have ever seen

Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.
Now, with the latest revelations, the comparison to Pitt seems ludicrous.

I am excited to have this opportunity to say that I really hate Jeff Pearlman's writing.

the bull terrier brought spark and pizzazz to the otherwise mundane world of beer advertising. He was cute and funny and talented and engrossing.

wow i'm really happy i haven't bothered to track down his book on the cowboys yet.

Spuds MacKenzie was a dog.

A good dog.

A very good dog.

But every dog has its day.

And it was a day that we'll never forget, although Rodriguez hopes that we will one day.

Selena Roberts has done what nobody thought was possible -- she put that dog on a leash. And fed it apple juice instead of beer.

It turned out that the dog liked the juice. OH HO, SEE WHAT I DID THERE??

GUYS, THESE ARE PEARLS OF WISDOM!

I am going to learn to tell the fake excerpts from real

Why would you want to do that? Live in the mystery!

morbs, in the epilogue roberts writes about how, even though he wasn't very popular with his teammates, a-rod was very popular with his local crew of obama canvassers. one time, she writes, he treated them all to a showing of "i love you man"