A-Rod meets the press

Well, he at least seemed ready for prime time this afternoon.

In Tampa, Alex Rodriguez met a large press corps at a well managed New York Yankee training facility.

A-Rod did OK, but clearly hadn't thought it all through.

He acknowledged he was injected around 2x/month for 3 years, so 36 times, with a substance the derivation of which he was not certain. He did this with his cousin, who bought the stuff in the Dominican Republic.

He kept referring to himself as young and stupid for doing this. Repeatedly. A lot. Like really young and stupid, like someething he did when he was 24 or 25. He wished he had gone to college, so he might not have done this stuff.

The once HoF lock danced around questions of history or an asterisk or whether he would give incentive money or money for major marker HRs back to the Yankees. He didn't fully acquit himself, but this is a whole lot more than any of the other liars who either continue to deny ever having taken steroids or clear or flaxseed oil or whatever have done over the past 10 years.

In a word, A-Rod manned up.

That said, it took him a week to do so, and he clearly didn't say everything he had to last Monday during his 'chat' with Peter Gammons.

Makes you wonder, if he was young and stupid 8 years ago, what he was last year when he ruined his marriage to 'study Kabbala' with Madonna, a cougar 17 years his senior. It harkens back to ten years ago, the height of the Clinton-Lewinski saga, and then House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde acknowledged having an affair in his youth, when he was 35 years old. Depending on your perspective, he was right, or A-Rod has two more years of youthful indescretions ahead of him before he really gets in trouble.