VIDEO: Newsday’s Ken Davidoff on A-Rod’s Confession

We as a people needs to understand he is human and he will make mistakes. We need to embrace the confession and help him brush off and start over.

A ROD SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF INSTEAD HE SMIRKS AND SAYS "I WAS YOUNG AND NAIEVE". WHAT A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE HE IS GIVING HIS KIDS.....SO WHEN WE ARE YOUNG WE CAN BREAK THE LAW. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE MENTALITY THESE DAYS AND THE MEDIA IS PROMOTING THIS MENTALITY. I WAS YOUNG ONCE AND SOMEHOW I JUST KNEW THAT DRUGS WERE ILLEGAL SO I DID NOT BREAK THE LAW.
HOW CAN WE FIGHT DRUGS FROM MEXICO IF AMERICANS ARE WAITING BY THE BORDERS TO BUY THE DAMN THING???
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I find it hard to believe that people are accepting his apology after the fact. If the apology came when he was first acused and did not LIE UNDER OATH, when the other men came forward, that would possibly be a different story. Is he sorry for actually doing the drugs or is he just sorry he got caught in his lie. He so calmly lied while UNDER OATH that he did not do the drugs. What is that telling the youth and influenced young adult? Lie under oath, if you get caught...THEN come clean, make an apology and all is good. That is messed up.

What a great lession for kids...
Do what ever it takes to win.
Lie until you get caught.
Where is his 2003-2009 drug tests?
What about the other 103?
And lets remember, cops and fireman are FIRED w/o pensions and heath insurance if you fail 1 test.

What about Pete Rose? Can anyone forgive him? He put up tremendous numbers. If he is banned from the Hall of Fame for betting on agame that he wasn't even involved in, and more importantly, all his numbers aren't worth a hill of beans, then why should anyone consider A Rod, Bonds, Sosa, MacGwire or anyone else who tarnished the game for a Hall of Fame spot. Rodriguez is only sorry for his actions because the list came out and his name was on it and he got caught. If the list never came out he would NEVER have admitted anything.

I am a retired police officer and I have seen some good liars in my time but A Rod was NOT sincere when he came clean and only came clean because his agent told him to. Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame and then we should consider forgiving all the steriod heads who got caught and also put an asterix next to their names that their records and numbers are in part due to steroids

The Arod issue is a complete disgrace to himself. The fans might be forgiving and thats great that they are. I am a ball player myself and I have to say that there is no reason to take a drug to enhance your performance. There is a thing called hard work and determination to make you a better ball player and a person in life itself. I have heard fans comments there was 103 other names etc etc. Well ok there might be other names. But because there are other names makes him ok. People in this world do illegal things and there might be about three hundred people doing steroids and never get caught but there is that one that does and he was that one person. Now on the flip side of things he was given a talent that I wont take away from him he is a good ball player and has alot of commendable reputation. But all of this steroid talk and admission makes all that go away. I just hope he gets this behind him and realize he has gotten a chance to prove he is noe fluke and he is a true ball player and he has not become who he is due to drugs. Good luck to him and his family!!!!!! Do i forgive Arod or accept his actions? The answer to that is I do not know the man personal and nor is it fair to pass judgement on a person I only know throught the media and the sport it self. But it still makes his actions unacceptable..

Indictments of anyone in this situation need to be examined within the context of era in which these alleged infractions took place. I have to ask the question; Why now? No one in the last 40 years took exception to players using speed, cocaine or any number of other illegal substances. If the public is under the impression that hitters were the only ones using they're sorely mistaken. So why not look at the era for what it was? We had pitchers throwing off high mounds we had the cocaine craze in the 80's we had greenies in the sixties and seventies yet no one places an asterisk or questions the numbers of players during those eras. Have you, the average Joe ever done anything to get ahead or get an edge at work? Does anyone not playing a professional sport understand the pressure that comes along with the contracts that players today sign? I have to laugh at these sports writers who sit in their ivory towers passing judgement. Most of these guys never picked up a ball in their lives let alone played any kind of real competition, but yet they carve up peoples lives with pens and with their words. Curt Schilling tends to make a lot of noise about these things but can he really say he's entirely clean too? Maybe he never took steroids of HGH but did he never take a cortisone shot or pain injection to get back on the field? I would think that is an equally egregious infraction. If you don't take the needle you don't play. Could that not be considered a performance enhancer? There far too many questions and far too few answers. I say judge those who allegedly used these substances within the context of their use. Put McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, Bonds and the others who made these infractions where they belong, in the hall of fame for what they achieved and put a line on their plaques explaining that they achieved these results in an era where the rampant use of performance enhancing drugs was prevalent throughout the league. It is my belief that there a witch hunt going on in professional sports, particularly baseball where the media is bent on destroying the reputations of good players and good people. There are far more important things to focus this much energy on in this country. Imagine if we committed this much energy and activity to repairing the economy.

I don't see what the BIG DEAL!!! IS?!! Instead of focusing on something that happened six years ago and have him apologing all over the place why not stay focused on the bad state the economy is in and who stole the money from the people and caused all the problems we're having now. Why don't you go after and make the Wall Street hooligans and whomever else involved tell what they did with the 1st installment of the bailout money. I'am more interested in that than this frivolous nonsense.