Earlier this evening, Alex Rodriguez appeared on “60  Minutes” to offer some insight into his own personal experiences with performance enhancing drugs, as well as the strides major league baseball has taken to “clean up the sport”.

In regards to the current state of testing in baseball, Rodriguez said: “I think baseball’s done a fine job of implementing some very strict rules. I mean, I got tested eight or nine times. I know some of my teammates got tested, you know, seven, eight times. And, you know, if you think about where the game is today vs. where it was six years ago, I think Major League Baseball has made some nice strides.”

Rodriguez told Katie Courice that’s he’s never used, nor been tempted to use performance enhancing drugs. This is in lieu of Jose Canseco’s comments that suggested AROD should have been included in the Mitchell Report.

Canseco has been going out of his way to insinuate that Rodriguez has been involved in performance enhancing drugs, citing information that will be revealed in his second book due to come out next year. As it turns out, everything Canseco wrote in his book “Juiced” (2005) has turned out to be true. My question is, if Canseco does indeed have information on AROD, why was it held out of the first book? Very odd if you ask me, but this will most likely remain a news story until we find out exactly what Canseco plans to reveal about the Yankees star.

Filed under: Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees, _Mitchell Report/Steroids