“I Was Sitting There Crying” – Alex Rodriguez Once Made an Honest Admission on Breaking Down During an Extremely Difficult MLB Opening Day

The former baseball player Alex Rodriguez is one of the known and wealthiest retired players in the history of Major League Baseball. To reach where he is today, he faced a lot of things. He made mistakes and lied about them, and eventually had to pay for his mistakes.

On December 13, 2007, a 409-page report was released, containing the names of more than 85 players who tested positive for taking performance-enhancing drugs. Those names contained the name of the Yankees’ first baseman, Alex Rodriguez. Earlier that year, Alex got asked in an interview if he had ever taken any kind of steroids or human growth hormones or PEDs, and he had denied all of it. No action was taken against him when his name first came in the Mitchell report. 

Then in 2013, the Biogenesis scandal came out, in which Alex’s name came up with 12 other players for use and possession of PEDs. Following this, he got suspended for the whole of the 2014 season. Therefore, he had to watch the entire season while serving his suspension. 

Suspended Alex Rodriguez forced himself to watch a Yankees game

MLB opening day 2014, Rodriguez literally had to force himself to watch the game. It was the first game of the Yankees since his suspension. Obviously, it was hard for him, but he did it anyhow. 

“I was sitting there crying,” he said. “It was torture. It was like being a masochist. I was broken, dead, tapping out, thinking crazy things.” 

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It was a difficult thing, but it was something he had brought upon himself. Mistakes happen, he did, and he paid for them by serving the longest suspension in the history of Major League Baseball at that time. 

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Because of PEDs usage, all his records to date are considered to be tainted. And this might also be the sole reason for him not getting inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Even though he had put in the numbers required to get in, he did not get voted.