Slugger Alex Rodriguez Fingers Sports Illustrated Reporter Selena Roberts in the Fallout From His Steroids Use

Alex Rodriguez just had to finger someone else in the wake of the bombshell revelation that he took steroids as late of 2003. As you will recall, Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts co-wrote the bombshell piece with David Epstein. He was boo-hooing to ESPN's Peter Gammons about Ms. Roberts.

"What makes me upset is that Sports Illustrated pays this lady, Selena Roberts, to stalk me," he [Rodriguez] told ESPN's Peter Gammons. Rodriguez went on to say that Roberts was tossed from his New York City apartment building, that she had to be escorted off of the University Miami campus by police when she sought out Rodriguez at the campus gym on Thursday and that she tried to break into his Miami home where his "children were sleeping."

"There are some really respectable journalists that are following this lady off a cliff," he said. Sports Illustrated published a Q & A with Roberts, in which the reporter talks about the process of breaking the story and her efforts to speak with Rodriguez.

She also calls the slugger's claims "absurd" in an interview with MLB Network. "I've never set foot in the lobby of Alex's New York apartment. I've never set foot on his property. It's pure fabrication," said Roberts, who did say she drove by Rodriguez's house after receiving permission from Miami Beach police to drive on public property near A-Rod's house.

The Miami Beach police have a "miscellaneous incident" report of that conversation, but Roberts was not cited for anything. Roberts also asked for and received permission from security at the University of Miami to enter the school's workout facilities and talk to Rodriguez on Thursday."I think it's a diversion, a shoot-the-messenger type of thing," Roberts said. Source: Chicago Sun Times

No matter how Alex Rodriguez tries to spin this, it is reprehensible that he expect to be treated as anything other than a cheat. To point a finger at someone else will not solve his problem. The lesson he is teaching all those kids who look up to him is that it is okay to cheat to get ahead. That is furthest from the truth. The names of all the other players who used steroids should be disclosed so that people see the fraud they are perpetrating. To echo the Sun Times, it seems rather interesting that A-Rod said he only found out for sure he had failed a test when Roberts confronted him. He knew darn well that he was doing the wrong thing. To feign ignorance as Marion Jones did, is simply an affront.