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Alex Rodriguez tested positive for roids' in 2003

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Taosman;2297780; said:
Going after athletes after they retired from sport(not Alex) or may have used in their past is like trying to cure a cold after the fact. The only possible motive could be politics of some sort. Going after the "big fish" is a great way to gain attention and financial/political backing.
Wouldn't it be better to work on prevention? But, of course that doesn't pay as well! :shake:
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Put it to you this way - if the MLB is going to be on the hook for pensions to some of these guys, knowing what they are putting into their bodies while they are still playing makes sense.

Look at A-Roid himself - the guy is breaking down, and his most recent surgery (his hip) is one of the areas that deteriorates due to roid usage.
 
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The problem seems to me that the reward for taking them continues to outweigh the risk of getting caught.

You want to stop this shit MLB and MLBPA? Agree to a new rule wherein a players first failed PED test is his last, then have the balls to enforce it. Retire some fucker in the prime of his career and watch the others get in line. What you are doing right now is an insult to our intelligence and at the end of the day, nothing more than tacit approval of PED use.

It will never happen because there is too much money involved. No owner wants his Ryan Braun banned in mid career, the players union sure as fuck doesn't want that to happen, so they will continue this farce of acting like they care and are doing something about it.

The real tragedy will continue to be the kids down stream in the player development system, and I'm talking all the way down into the high school level, will be forced to make decisions about PED use if they want to further their ascent of the system and perhaps end up at the MLB level some day.
 
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Not sure if it will fix anything but I think all sports need to create an ind body sorta like the UN for the world of sports.

They do all the testing, and its known that your samples will be kept for an extended period of time say 25 years, and that your samples will be tested down the line to check for things that were not detectable at the time the sample was taken.

Drug testing is a joke in its current form, the drug makers are always years ahead of the drug testers. Maybe something in the model of what I mentioned might give some teeth.... knowing that you will be caught at some point and all records and wins will be forfeited, gold medals taken back. Heck start putting it in contracts that if found guilty of drug failures you are responsible for some or all of your contracts.

Real penalties with some serious teeth. Probably would never be agreed to by the players unions... but atleast we would know all cheaters would be caught eventually.
 
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...-only-1-percent-donations-163106184--mlb.html

Alex Rodriguez’s charity gave only 1 percent of donations to charitable causes

Alex Rodriguez' woes continue. A new Boston Globe review of IRS filings by more than 50 athletes found that the charity established by Rodriguez, as well as those by other notable players, gave far less than the expected percentage of their income to actual charitable causes.

Nonprofits are generally expected to donate 65 to 75 percent of their revenues to charitable causes, with the remainder going to pay whatever expenses and, if necessary, salaries of nonprofit employees. But according to the Globe, nearly half of the 50 athletes' foundations reviewed fell below that line.

Rodriguez was not the only athlete whose foundation failed to meet acceptable giving rules, but his was certainly one of the most notorious misses. In 2006, Rodriguez teamed with Jay-Z for a charity poker tournament that helped the A-Rod Family Foundation raise $403,862. (Final reported records often differ from the "big check" as posted above because of facility use and similar expenses.) However, the IRS reported that barely 1 percent of that total reached charities: $5,000 to Jay-Z's Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund and $90 — yes, ninety dollars — to a Little League baseball team in Miami. The organization then stopped submitting financial reports to the IRS, and was subsequently stripped of its tax-exempt status.
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Nice....
 
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Not to really take A-roid's side, but he doesn't run the day to day operations of the charity in his name and the other athletes don't either. They're professional athletes, not accountants or executives.

that said, if you sign your name to be on something, you'd better damn well understand that with that comes the responsibility to ensure they are doing what they claim to be doing.
 
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A-Rod plotting return-and-retire before suspension

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Alex Rodriguez could retire due to hip condition but still be fit to collect rest of money on contract, sources tell the News.

Alex Rodriguez has 114 million reasons to get back on the field. According to sources close to the ongoing drama surrounding the star-crossed Yankee third baseman, Rodriguez and his advisers are so concerned that Major League Baseball's drug posse is quickly closing in on him that they have racheted up the timetable for him to return to game action. Once he's back playing in rehab games, the sources say, he could then claim he is physically unable to perform because of the serious hip injury he is recovering from, "retire" from the game, and still collect the full amount of his salary -- $114 million over the next five years. "It's all about him getting his money and not losing it to suspension," one source close to the situation told the Daily News.

Entire article: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/sources-a-rod-hoping-cash-114-m-mlb-nails-article-1.1383664
 
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TxQSYWu61I"]Alex rodriguez get hit by pitch by ryan dempster - red sox vs yankees FULL VIDEO 8/18/2013 - YouTube[/ame]
 
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