Booth Review: The Weak that Was

The A-Rod steroid situation, Here are my thoughts: First of all, bummer. This is not good for the game, A-Rod was supposed to re-re-write the record books and clean out all the ‘roid records. It is unfortunate that he juiced. With that said, he had what I thought was a great, candid interview, in which he claims he did ‘roids for three years while in Texas. For all the people who say A-Rod is a coward, at least he has the balls, and the smarts, to admit it, and I give him tremendous credit for admitting three years of use when he could be left it at one. And, if it is true that those were his only juicing years, then we can look at the numbers to see how this affected his game. Keep in mind that unlike Bonds, A-Rod was in his prime and not having his most productive years at a time when he should have been declining. Comparing the averages of A-Rod’s three tainted years with his best three Yankee years:
Rangers- .305 BA 132 RBI and 52 HR
Yankees- .312 BA 130 RBI and 46 HR
A-Rods three years in Texas were his three most consecutively productive, but not by much. These numbers are virtually the same. I am not saying he wasn’t cheating, but I do believe, if he is telling the truth now, that it is a mute point. There is statistical proof to back up the fact that Alex Rodriguez did not overly benefit from his use of ‘performance enhancers.’ If anything, take away 18-36 homers from his career stats, test him often, and lets move on. He'll beat Bond's record by more then 36.

Or, if you want, take away all 156 he hit in Texas. He will still end up with over 600 clean home runs.

So, in terms of the hall of fame, I believe he certainly deserves it. Yes, he cheated, but then he realized that was a bad idea and he stopped. And for those who claim that he didn't admit it until he was confronted, yeah, of course not. Why would anyone willingly bring all of this controversy upon himself. He realized he was doing something dumb and he stopped (allegedly). If that's the case that's all you should ask for. And, to those who say he can't go to the hall because his career is tainted, those years are not going to make up half of his career, or even a third. Those three seasons will account for 1/7 of his career, which will have hall of fame numbers throughout it. This is a nation of second chances, I would like to see A-Rod get one.

One more point and I'll move on. Many claim he should get his MVP award from Texas taken away. That's fine, he still has two clean ones. And, if your taking away MVPs from steroid users then take away Juan Gonzalez's 1996 award and give it to the second place vote getter, which happens to be A-Rod. If you take away one of his 'tainted' ones, then you have to concede him an additional clean one.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Kellogg’s has dropped Michael Phelps as a spokesman. There go all his free munchies…

The Real LT, Lawrence Taylor is going to do dancing with the stars. They were going to fill his spot with Joe Theisman, but he still can’t dance…

Which is more impressive, Ben Roethlisberger winning the Super Bowl with broken ribs or A-Rod hitting 57 homers with shrunken balls? Unh, got ‘em!

Curt Shilling is really obnoxious and annoying. I hope this list of the other 103 players comes out and hes on it. Twice.

This years Pro Bowl was won by Eli Manning and the NFC. The NBA All Star team in the East is better then the West. All signs point to the NL finally beating the AL in an All-Star game. Sounds like home field advantage in the World Series for The New York Mets.

Pop Star and Doublemint gum spokesman, Chris Brown, has been arrested for assaulting former fling and Queen of Foreheads, Rihanna. Apparently Aramis Rameriez isn't the hardest hitter at Wrigley after all...

When Tim Kurkjian got the inside scoop on the steroids, do you think he ran to his friend’s house really fast and tried to trade all his A-Rod cards?
“Hey Donald, I’ll trade you this sick A-Rod on the Rangers for that Sizemore and a Jose Reyes?”
“What? Really Tim? Why, do you have doubles or something?”
“No doubles, I swear!”
“Fine, if I can keep the case.”
“Ugggh! Fine, black black no trade backs!”

Happy Valentines Day, ladies. You know Brix Daddy cares if ain't nobody else care.