Alex Rodriguez’s now-famous peddler of drugs (that can be bought over the counter in the Dominican Republic!) Yuri Whathisname has been banned from the Yankees facilities.
One day after A-Rod was chauffeured from Dunedin Stadium back to Tampa by his cousin Yuri Sucart, the Yankees met with the third baseman to inform him that Sucart was no longer allowed anywhere near the team.
“Yuri won’t be around anymore,” a source with knowledge of the meeting told the Daily News. “They can’t stop him from hanging out with him away from the ballpark, but he won’t be at the ballpark.”
Normally getting banned from anything would make you a much cooler person, but look at this guy. He looks like he’s auditioning for the lead in Pablo Blart: Mall Bandito. That’s not racist, is it? Eh, he’s Dominican. I have tons of Dominican friends.
[NY Daily News, via GameOn]
It’s the first day back for baseball, and also the first game for newly-anointed steriod pariah Alex Rodriguez. Banned In Hollywood took a look at what we might find in A-Rod’s locker. Careful, fellas. You keep cracking on Alex like this, he’s gonna send his girlfriend over there to beat you up.
There’s been a lot of chatter about A-Rod’s return to baseball for some reason, about what opposing fans might say. Personally, I think if you’ve banged a 50-year-old Madonna that being caught with steriods would be a walk in the park.
Radar Online obtained these photos of Alex Rodriguez living it up in the Bahamas the weekend that his steroid use was revealed. And frankly, I’m shocked to see him with what appears to be an attractive brunette. She’s so young and feminine and non-tranny-looking. Hell, I bet she can’t even bench her own weight. I wonder what A-Rod saw in her? Maybe he was just working his way to her extremely muscular mother.
Alex Rodriguez spoke to Peter Gammons in an exclusive ESPN interview that aired yesterday, and he seemed open and remorseful about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
“When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day…
“Back then, [baseball] was a different culture,” Rodriguez said. “It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid. I was naive. And I wanted to prove to everyone that I was worth being one of the greatest players of all time…
“I’m guilty for a lot of things. I’m guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions. And to be quite honest, I don’t know exactly what substance I was guilty of using.”
All right, good times. I’m all for never talking about steroids again if everybody else is, too. Can we talk about something interesting now? Like how A-Rod is wearing a kabbalah bracelet?
Somebody leaked a report over the weekend that Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003, the same year that he won the MVP with the Texas Rangers. A report citing unnamed sources featured a list of 104 players who tested positive for steroids in 2003. I would have said “failed” the steriod test, but if they tested positive, wouldn’t that actually be passing?
As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.
When approached by an SI reporter on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez declined to discuss his 2003 test results.
MLB is claiming that those testing results were part of a series of “survey tests” and those offenders were not meant to be identified publicly.
Because the survey testing that took place in 2003 was intended to be non-disciplinary and anonymous, we can not make any comment on the accuracy of this report as it pertains to the player named.
A-Rod tested positive for testosterone and something called Primobolan, which has side effects including a proclivity to date chicks that look like dudes.
Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci interviewed former Yankees manager Joe Torre extensively for their co-written book, The Yankee Years (published by Doubleday, out next week). It includes several unflattering portraits of Yankee players and front-office brass, which the New York Post somehow translated to mean that Torre was “ripping” his former co-workers in a new “tell-all.” Verducci has since done a Q&A to correct the tabloid’s sensationalist smear, but it’s still worth looking at the Post’s story:
Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called “A-Fraud” by his teammates after he developed a “Single White Female”-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.
Dammit, I wasted my best “Single White Female” joke in the link dump this morning. The following tidbit, however, was my favorite:
The book also reveals that, during spring training in 1999, team doctors revealed to owner George Steinbrenner that Torre had prostate cancer - even before informing the manager himself.
That just kinda blows my mind. Doctor: “Mr. Steinbrenner, Torre has cancer. Shall I tell him?” Steinbrenner: “Eh, no rush. This power trip is gettin’ me hard.”
POLL: Will Torre’s book change your opinion of the Yankees? Long answer: No. Short answer: **wanking motion**
