Carlos Delgado took steroids, too.

This is not a defense of ARod just because he's a Yankee or because I root for him. I'm not trying to blameshift. It's just a guess:

"Well, if A-Rod says it's okay to throw out his three Texas years because they were only ones in which he was doing bad things to inflate his numbers, that means we can erase 156 homers from his record. Bogus as Bonds' all-time record of 762 homers may be, it's the one in the books."

That is an impossible thing to say. ARod has to adjust his stats, but Bonds does not. You're saying Bonds's HRs are bogus and then you're defending them at the same time ... in the same sentence.


"So under the new A-Rod math, it would seem he's going to need to hit an additional 156 homers on top of the 762 in order for the all-time record to be completely pure and clean again."

It will still be bogus. But it will be the one in the books.


"Just wondering: Is this the way the Yankees will try to sell it? That their man isn't satisfied with breaking the all-time record with the benefit of tainted homers and, has instead, established an even more formidable mountain to climb for himself? All in the name of integrity."

Mr. Madden, are you really wondering about that?

I'm going to go wild here and guess that will not be the way the Yankees try to sell it.


"As long as Rodriguez is conceding that his 2001-03 seasons shouldn't count, do you suppose perhaps he might want to put a call in to Carlos Delgado and offer him his 2003 Most Valuable Player award? A-Rod won it with 47 homers and 118 RBI for a last-place Texas team while Delgado, who finished second, 29 points behind, had 42 homers and a league-leading 145 RBI for the third-place Toronto Blue Jays."

So, you're that confident in Delgado?

That's kind of weird.

I'm all for innocent until proven guilty. Which is why the baseball players should not have been tested in the first place.

But I'd take even odds that Delgado took steroids.