So Alex Rodriguez confessed to using "a banned substance" for three years in what ultimately looked and sounded like a contrived and toothless interview with Peter Gammons on ESPN. Gammons later said he had had no restrictions on questions. If that is so, he should give it up. What a bunch of hooey. The only time Rodriguez seemed truly sincere was when he ripped Selena Roberts, the Sports Illustrated writer responsible for the article revealing his failed drug test. Otherwise he was either making peculiar blowfish faces or looking like a narcissist caught in a web. Gammons fed him cupcake after cupcake and did not even question his angry accusations about Roberts, who later patiently refuted all. It was Gammons, too, who first played the "children's card", as in would Rodriguez want to work with children to keep them off those banned substances he could not remember. Having Rodriguez "confess" was a good idea but he would have been better served by talking for five minutes rather than taking part in a 35-minute ESPN close-up that only indicated a disturbing lack of substance.
Then today came the news that Miguel Tejada is being charged with lying to Congress about the use of steroids by a fellow player. Where is Bud in all this?
