Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 09, 2009
Rodriguez Interview

I'm watching the interview, and it's good that Alex said if he were a fan of his, he'd be pissed. At least he doesn't expect fans to forgive him right away.

Update: A-Rod said he didn't know he failed the test until Selena Roberts told him.

Update: ESPN needs to lose the big banner at the bottom. They're cutting off a good portion of Alex's face.

Update: Alex just said that Selena Roberts says he did steroids in high school. He also just said Roberts tried to break into his house.

Update Selena Roberts denies the allegations in a note to ESPN.

Update: One of my favorite new shows is "Lie to Me," about a group that is good at reading facial expressions and body language to detect when people are less than truthful. I'd love to find out how real experts at that responded to the interview. At 6:20, Gammons starts asking Alex if he ever told anybody. He starts rubbing his nose at that point, which supposedly is a sign of lying.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:02 PM | Cheating | TrackBack (0)
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I love that show too! I've been interested in body language for years.

Did you notice the way he's shaking his head subtley when he says things? Something's not being said, but I do believe he feels bad about taking the steroids....based a lot on his facial expressions...small grimaces and stuff, as well as eye brow movements. Of course, I'm not an expert though.

I'd like to know...if he didn't know he failed a test until just recently, then why did he quit taking the steroid back in '03? If he didn't know it was illegal and didn't know he failed a test, wouldn't he have just kept using it? But apparently he stopped, 'cause he hasn't failed since. Something missing in this point. It's not being talked about, asked about, or answered. It's a hole that I don't like.

Posted by: Devon Young at February 9, 2009 06:44 PM

My guess is he stopped using once the testing started, but he couldn't stop soon enough to avoid failing the first test.

Posted by: Hei Lun Chan at February 9, 2009 07:00 PM

Well he took it for 3 years, maybe he didn't feel like they were doing anything for him, found out that they were going to start testing and stopped.

His numbers really aren't all the different from his time in SEA to his time in TEX to his time now in the Bronx; accounting for park factors.

Posted by: Boomer at February 9, 2009 07:34 PM

Love Lie To Me as well, and one thing I did notice, is when Katie Couric asked him if he ever took PED's, he kind of shakes his head yes and answers with a "No".

Posted by: Dunham at February 9, 2009 07:45 PM


I am under the impression that body language interpretation is pretty much junk science. This is from an article in the NY Times last year about Clemens.

Even the most skilled body-language experts are right in only about half of all cases, he said, and investigators often study body language to decide when to dig deeper.

Right in about half of all cases. Heads he lying, tails he's telling the truth. Not very impressive.

Posted by: JC at February 9, 2009 08:30 PM

Who cares? There's still no evidence that so-called "Performance Enhancing Drugs" do anything of the sort. In fact, assuming that Arod has been clean since 2003 (and that's a decent assumption considering the increasingly rigorous testing and his lack of positive tests) his performance hasn't fallen off at all. I care about as much about these scandals as I did about whether or not Bill Clinton had inappropriate relationships in the oval office. It's just an opportunity for blowhards on TV to preach and feel high and mighty.

Posted by: Rumit at February 9, 2009 09:13 PM

Good job, JC -- I was thinking about looking up that Times article, but fortunately for my lazy self you'd already done it.
Ugh. Cheating at games, yeah, that's bad. But pseudoscientific hogwash, that just disgusts me.

Posted by: James at February 9, 2009 09:43 PM
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