On the cover of today’s Miami Herald and Wall Street Journal is the admission of Alex Rodriguez use of steroids from 2001-2003. The admission came when a Sports Illustrated reporter told him he had tested positive back then. The information came out from a report that federal agents confiscated from a California laboratory. Alex says that at the time he “felt he needed a push to get him to the next level….and wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being on the of the greatest players of all time.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/baseball/story/896116.html. And now the owner of Texas Rangers, Tom Hicks, who made him the highest paid player feels betrayed and deceived. It is understandable, because he was being paid based on the perceived value. He hit 156 home runs in those years. Now that perceived value is diminished. He obviously chose the wrong push to make him appear greater. Could it have been possible that if he believed in himself more, enough to take him to “the next level”, that it could have fueled him to accomplish those feats without the drugs? It is possible? What do you think?
Leonard Pitts, from the Miami Herald wrote an article about the myth that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. He says the Emancipation Proclamation was a military measure to destabilize the rebellious south and did not apply in slave holding states.