At the start of the 2001 Major League Baseball season, Alex Rodriguez was in the first year of his then record 10 year $252 million dollar contract. He had the best offensive year for a shortstop in history with 201 hits, 52 home runs, and 153 RBI's. WOW, this was simply a great year and the Rangers really felt that they had gotten their money's worth. This season was also known for the breaking of the single season HR record by Barry Bonds. He bombed 73 dingers and surpassed Mark McGwires record. This was the peak of a resurgence in baseball interest which was captivated because of McGwire and Sammy Sosa's chase of Roger Maris' HR record in 1998.
Flash forward to today and a little bit changed, some for the good and well...some change for the bad
Alex Rodriguez recently agreed to the outline of a contract with the New York Yankees that surpasses his previous contract. He is going to get 10 YEARS AND $275 MILLION. $275 MILLION!!!!! He also has incentives and most likely a huge payday if he breaks the all-time HR reord currently set by, you guessed it, Barry Bonds. A-Rod is 33 and is going to be worth the equivalent price of some small countries by the time he is done playing.
For Barry a lot has changed, he had the BALCO steriod lab hearings to do and his body broke down and he became often injured and missed games. Now today evidence has been brought against him and he has been indicted with multiple counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
C'mon Barry, everybody knew you juiced so why lie? It was like an elephant that was trying to be hid under the carpet but you could still see those huge ears and tusks.
His baseball career is over, he is on the wrong side of 40 and his body is just old and becoming unable to handle the daily rigors of baseball. Barry said if he was ever inducted into the Hall of Fame he would not go because of his all time HR ball being astersiked by designer Marc Ecko. NOBODY CARES BARRY BECAUSE YOU RUINED IT!
If Pete Rose can't be in than Bonds sure as hell does not deserve it. Rose bet on baseball and Barry used an illegal drug to make himself better and set records. I guess a lot of people got caught up in the hype of an overweight 37 year old slugger with more armor than Henry VIII's army. Rose owns a record and he did not acheive it illegally, Bonds did and thats end of story.
Let's just pray the Mitchell Commission doesn't drop bombs and ruins more careers.
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