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Hankenstein Weighs in on A-Rod, Canseco
By Jeff Zachowski on March 27th, 2008 11:35 AM |
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In his spirited defense of A-Rod on Wednesday, [Hank] Steinbrenner told The Record that “if [Sandy] Koufax, [Mickey] Mantle, [Babe] Ruth, [Willie] Mays or [Hank] Aaron were playing today, they all would be suspected of doing something — and of course, they didn’t do it. There was no such thing in their day.
“This is the age of paranoia.”
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“Consider the source, that’s No. 1,” Steinbrenner said of [Jose] Canseco. “He wouldn’t have been able to hit the ball out of the infield without steroids.“And No. 2, if Mantle or Ruth were playing today, with the 550-foot home runs they hit, everybody’d be saying they were on something. They didn’t even lift weights in those days. They played on alcohol and hot dogs.
“There are certain naturals. There are guys who can just do it, and Alex is one of those guys,” Steinbrenner said. “He’s just friggin’ great.”
Source: The Bergen Record
