How to remediate A-Rod's image

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Immediately call a press conference

2. Apologize to the Yankees and to all the kids and say:

3. "I didn't do it to get more money, I already had a multi-million contract"

4. "I did it because I felt so bad that I was making all that money and I wasn't playing well enough to deserve it."

5. "I wrongly thought that drugs would make me better, but they did not."

5. "I have asked the Yankees to rewrite my contract and reduce my pay to one dollar below the lowest salary on the team."

6. "I am also donating $50,000,000 to establish free baseball camps where kids will be taught how to play and that what makes them good is hard work, not drugs"

[Hokie]

1. Not going to happen

I think Bud Selig is doing more to rehabilitate A-Rod's image than he could ever do for himself. Selig should never have let it get personal.

[joeybee12]

2. Agreed...not even one of those things on the list will happen...nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. It won't....but, if he did it, it would help. Of course it's been

so long. The things I listed have to have been done asap..otherwise come off as bullshit

[joeybee12]

6. Yeah, if he does any of them (he won't) the storyline will be

that his handlers got to him, not that it's sincere.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. I do wonder though why no one is saying "He had a contract

locked up - he didn't have to take drugs to play well."

Guess there are two possibilities:

1) Ego so huge he needed the adoration

2) Felt humbled with such a great salary wanted to do as well as possible to deserve it.

Like to think it was #2 - but I buy Florida swamp land too. hahah

[joeybee12]

8. Smart money is on #1!

[hughee99]

3. It won't matter at all to non-Yankee fans,

and will barely matter to Yankee fans. The ONLY thing that could possibly remediate A-Rod's image would be if the federal government and MLB decided "you know what, these steroids aren't so bad. Go nuts fellas".

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. True Dat. I think the whole thing sucks - plus the lying. But, to me

there's something not quite kosher about going back in time to say you did this back when. I would have liked a reprimand to all who had and a "from this day forward, if you are caught - you are out of baseball."