excerpt from Andrew Marschand at espn.com
• He believes that what Tony Bosch gave him might have been a placebo. "Only me," Rodriguez said of his relationship with Bosch. "Only a dope like me would do that stuff and have the two worst statistical seasons of my career." Bosch was sentenced to four years in jail Tuesday after pleading guilty last October to conspiracy to distribute testosterone.
The official story is that the only time he used was in those last two years. The result, ironically, demonstrated that steroids don't help in baseball... or maybe that Rodriguez never really used steroids after all. The silver lining is that his records are all completely legitimate.
For a lot of years there was only one man in baseball with the potential to surpass Barry Bonds. Now that Barry bonds is a laughing stock, there's only one man who's still trying.
Only you, Alex Rodriguez. Only a dope like you.