Alex Rodriguez doesn’t regret taking steroids; he regrets getting caught.  If he were truly sorry for taking steroids, why didn’t he come clean before he was outed?  I’m pleased the truth came out because I don’t like Rodriguez and don’t want him to get a free pass to the top of the record books. He’s a greedy sell-out, is full of himself, and thinks he’s above the game he plays.

What I hope is that A-Rod’s confession after the fact will finally get fans to quit thinking he is a god.  There’s never a race in the All-Star balloting for American League third basemen; perhaps this will change in 2009 because people are ashamed to vote for a cheater (though the time he cheated on national television – when he slapped the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s glove in the 2004 ALCS – didn’t change a thing).

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Big baseball news in my life: I recently found out that I will be working as the Press Liaison for Team Italy at the 2009 World Baseball Classic, set to begin next week.

In the second-ever WBC, 16 teams representing countries in all continents other than Antarctica – from the 2006 WBC champion Japan to Australia to the Republic of South Africa – will vie to be crowned true World Champions of the game of baseball.  (One could argue that the World Series is something of a misnomer.)  With baseball not scheduled as one of the events at the 2012 Olympics in London, the WBC is an opportunity for players to represent their countries on the big stage.

Among players participating in the WBC are Derek Jeter and Dustin Pedroia (USA), Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz (Dominican Republic), Ichiro Suzuki and Daisuke Matsuzaka (Japan), Russell Martin and Justin Morneau (Canada), Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran (Puerto Rico), and Miguel Cabrera and Carlos Zambrano (Venezuela).

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