The New York Yankees star third baseman Alex Rodriquez apparently has come cleanwith ESPN’s senior sports writer Peter Gammons on his usage of steroids during his time with the Texas Rangers. In the interview that A-Rod says he was feeling immense pressure to succeed after signing baseball’s largest contract ever, and was willing to do anything he could to help himself live up to expectations. He admits to using steroids during the 2001, 2002, and 2003 seasons in the small portion of the interview that ESPN released this afternoon.

Perhaps taking a page from current and former Yankee’s Andy Pettitte and Jason Giambi Roriquez seems to think his best course of action is not to deny his wrong doings but to apologize for them. The difference is Giambi and Pettitte were loved by fans much more then A-Rod has who has never been accepted in the Bronx where his lack of post season success still looms large over him. I commend Alex for coming out about this though. It really is his best course of action. Don’t kid yourself if you still think steroids was an isolated occurrence. I don’t care which team you root for everyone has people who have used and it is only a matter of time before it comes out.

This is a black eye for baseball and I’m interested to see how this interview plays out with A-Rod. A-Rod has always been able to say the right things but for some reason I usually don’t believe his sincerity. Him and Derek Jeter could say the exact same statement and I’d believe Jeter, but think that A-Rod was just saying it because it was the right thing to say.

ESPN will have the entire Interview tonight on the 6pm edition of Sports Center. Stay tuned because the circus show is just beginning there are 103 other names that tested positive that will slowly start to be revealed over the coming months.

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