Enough Is Enough

Alex Rodriguez must think we're all idiots. He must think that no matter what he says, we'll believe it because he's A-Rod. He must think that after all that he's gotten away with prior to a couple weeks ago, he can continue to get away with telling lies and we'll just give him another chance.

Maybe we, the media and the public, put blinders on in 1998 when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa vaulted their way into baseball's record books on steroids. We only learned later that the reason for their enormous body masses as they blasted baseballs out of the park at prolific rates was due to a series of steroid injections that gave them bodies that resembled The Incredible Hulk.

Maybe we, the media and the public, put blinders on while A-Rod was putting up marvelous numbers year after year because we didn't want to believe that the anti-Bonds was cheating us too.

Not anymore.

It appears A-Rod's press conference Tuesday was filled with more lies. His Cousin Vinny, err, Yuri Sucart, apparently couldn't have provided primobolan to the slugger legally, or over the counter, because the drug could not be acquired legally between 2001-2003 in the Dominican Republic. (It cannot be legally acquired there today either.)

It also appears the only way to obtain primobolan is by finding an underground dealer or through the Internet.

So when A-Roid tried to appeal to the sympathetic by saying he didn't know he was doing anything wrong because he got the drug over the counter in La Republica Dominicana, as they call it there, he lied again.

He also may have lied again, about the time period of his steroid use. The New York Daily News reported today that Rodriguez has had a long standing relationship with a trainer who was banned from baseball in 2001 due to his ties to steroids. The trainer, Angel Presinal, apparently followed the slugger the entire 2007 season with the Yankees. And according to the report, he even stayed in A-Roid's hotel room on the road.

Furthermore, cousin Yuri was apparently Rodriguez driver all of the 2008 season. If he's the guy that was providing A-Rod steroids, as the slugger himself claims, wouldn't it be hard to believe that Alex didn't receive a thing from Yuri last season? Sure, maybe he hasn't tested positive recently, but everyone knows these guys are always one step ahead of the testing.

Stop lying to us, A-Roid. You're teetering on Mark McGwire territory at this point. Everything you've tried to do to help your image has been nixed by your continuous lies. It's ridiculous.

Enough is enough.