Canseco, Bonds snipe at A-Rod
Geez, Alex Rodriguez can't seem to escape controversy even when he doesn't say or do anything to provoke it.
In the last few days, A-Rod has been the target of a couple of pointed comments. Jose Canseco threw A-Rod under the bus by hinting that Rodriguez might not be Mr. Clean when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs. Then, Barry Bonds -- who seemed buddy-buddy with A-Rod during the All-Star break -- took a swipe at him.
I am hardly an A-Rod apologist, though I am a Yankee fan and I do admire what Rodriguez has done this season and throughout his career. I do think, though, that both Canseco and Bonds have their own selfish reasons for taking shots at the Yankee third baseman.
Canseco, author of 'Juiced' and self-proclaimed baseball steroids expert, is trying to sell a new book about the topic of performance-enhancing drugs. What better way than to denigrate the guy many are hoping will one day erase Bonds' name from the top of the home run leaderboard, where he will be at any time now?
His comments on a Boston radio station recently -- "wait and see" if Rodriguez used steroids and "he is not who he seems to be" smack of stunts designed to gain attention for his book.
Canseco may have been a credible source of information about steroids at one time. Now he just seems like a pathetic, money-hungry ex-jock who will say or do anything to keep his name in the public eye and put some money in his bank account.
As for Bonds, he just seems jealous of the attention A-Rod has been getting and the predictions that Rodriguez will one day pass whatever home run total Barry winds up with.
That is probably why he said this:
"Is he as good as me? Hell, no."
Of course, Bonds has in the past also trashed Babe Ruth, so that fact that he would put down A-Rod shouldn't be a surprise. Bonds clearly thinks no baseball player ever born can carry his jock.
It's too bad he's such a jerk. Throw out all the steroid allegations, and most outside San Francisco still would not want to celebrate his inevitable passing of Hank Aaron as the all-time home run king simply because of his arrogance and intolerance for other people.
And that's too bad.
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