MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said that it was a battle for the survival of the sport. The battle was between Selig and Alex Rodriguez. The commissioner was bound and determined not to lose that one. It turns out that Rodriguez has been a very bad boy. Selig knew just how bad, but he only brought out enough to justify the suspension he imposed on A-Rod.
When Alex Rodriguez was under investigation, he stormed out of the room when Commissioner Bud Selig entered the room to testify. He then rushed to a local radio station to state emphatically that he had never taken performance enhancing drugs. At the time, Rodriguez was under the impression that he had Tony Bosch under control. But he was wrong about that one.
Anthony Bosh was the guy who ran a shop called Biogenesis in a Miami suburb which supplied banned substances to professional and amateur athletes for years while all the while posing as an anti-aging clinic. He freely admitted on TV that, if he had not been caught, he would gladly still be doing the same thing. He actually claimed that he was helping the athletes. The man even had some teenage clients.
60 Minutes did almost a full, in depth program which centered around interviews with Anthony Bosch in which Bosch, now in FBI custody, told the world that he personally had injected Rodriguez with performance enhancing drugs of various types including human growth hormone as well as other substances that both he and A-Rod knew were banned by Major League Baseball.
Bosch told the story of Rodriguez coming to him and asking just what it was that Manny Ramirez had been taking while having such a great run with the bat. Rodriguez wanted to end up breaking the all time home run record but he wanted it way too badly.
Bosch even showed Rodriguez how to time his intake of banned substances so that they would not show up in the random MLB drug testing program to which all major league players are subjected. But somehow things got out of hand and Rodriguez became paranoid about Bosch and began subtle and then not so subtle threats against him until Bosch finally turned himself over to federal authorities claiming that he was in fear for his life.
Bud Selig was most upset by Alex Rodriguez’s attempts to block the MLB investigation of his case, more so that the case itself. It is safe to say that A-Rod will never play another game of Major League Baseball in his life.
