When discussing baseball’s drug-testing policy Wednesday at Yankees’ spring training camp, third basemen Alex Rodriguez raised some eyebrows after saying he was tested “9 or 10 times” last year.
A-Rod said he understood all of this, and made the point by noting that he was drug-tested “nine or 10 times” last season. It seemed to be his way of putting the situation in context, noting that he had to be clean because of what he called baseball’s “very strict (drug-testing) policy.”
The problem is that apparently no player would be tested that many times in a season unless he had tested positive for amphetamines or otherwise given MLB reason to target him.
A-Rod seems to be the kind of guy who says thinks at times just to hear himself talk. He doesn’t really think before he makes comments and therefore leaves himself open for criticism. If he were to just take a moment to think about what’s coming out of his mouth, I’m willing to bet the media would get off his back.
