AROD was AROID when he was MVP in 2003.

When Alex Rodriguez won his first MVP title in 2003, he was using steroids. Roiding is a big deal because winning awards while roiding raises the bar for the highest paid contracts in the game, which in turn raises the overall contracts for all players, and makes it harder for the smaller market teams to compete.

I suppose one could argue that these roiding players add more excitement to the game because of the homers they generate, which raises fan attendance for all teams, and in theory provides more capital for each team to sign players. Still, what about the players that don't roid?

Maybe there should be alternating fan seating so fans can choose to support the roiders, or support the non-roiders.

Why not just have two sets of awards, one for the steroid users, and one for the non steroid users?

Why not just have two sets of records, onef or the steroid users, and one for the non steroid users?

Why not just have two leagues, one for the steroid users, and one for the non steroid users?

Why not just have two playoffs, one for the steroid users, and one for the non steroid users? Then have the winners of each league face off.

Maybe one day they will invent a bat that when held by the batter will detect any drug usage. Maybe the bat would wilt whenever it detects roid use. AROID swinging a wet noodle at the plate, that might clean up major league baseball roid use very quickly. And for pitchers, maybe the balls could have some kind of sensor as well, making the ball shrivel up when it detects roid use.

Why Torre said more than he probably should have said about AROD and the Yankees.

Joe Torre always struck me as a players manager. Being a former player himself, Torre most likely earned the respect of his players by simply knowing the game. Torre also does not come off as a gossiper. So why did Torre gossip about AROD in his book?

The obvious first reason is, to sell books. But I think there is a second reason as well. Torre basically lost his job after two straight years of not making the A.L. Championship finals. Factor in the infamous 3-0 fall from ahead loss to the Red Sox a couple years earliera, and the ingredients were there for Torre to be removed by simply not giving him a "respectful" contract extension.

Where it gets ugly however is that AROD apparently commented about Torre after Torre's removal. I am speculating AROD speaking about Torre in a rather non complementary way just lit a fire under Torre. The one guy who has not done so well in the playoffs, AROD, is the LAST guy who should be talking about Torre's managerial skills. One could argue that if AROD had put up the same type of production in the playoffs that he regularly puts up during the season, Torre would still be manager of the Yankees.

If a manager is going to sell out a former player, doing it after that same former player has already sold out the manager is the one scenario where I can see it happening.

On the the other hand, Torre did burn his bridge back to New York should the yankees ever start flipping through managers the way they used to in the 80's and early 90's.