Apparently George Brett couldn’t believe his ears when he heard Alex Rodriguez saying that he had taken steroids early in his career when he was playing for the Texas Rangers. “Is it really true?” Brett said when interviewed by a local Kansas City radio station on Tuesday.

The hall-of-famer said that he was most concerned about the news because he always considered himself a good friend of A-Rod, and to know such thing after so long is something he’s still assimilating.

Brett, who played for the Royals during his tenure at the MLB, said that he considered absurd to put in jeopardy one’s health for the sake of competing with others.

I totally agree with Brett, and actually, if you got to see the interview that ESPN broadcasted where A-Rod tells the whole story, you can note that he not only lied about taking steroids, you will also see Alex Rodriguez saying that he was doing it because he was under a lot of pressure back on 03’, but, can a person who just signed a $250 million dollar contract which is guaranteed, be worried about anything at all? I’ll leave the answer to you.

It is clear that baseball has suffered a lot in what it concerns to credibility since the whole steroids scandal began. With names like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and now Alex Rodriguez endorsing the pages of the Mitchell report, the officials at the MLB must try to revitalize such credibility with more control over illegal substances.

The bad thing for A-Rod and the other mentioned players is that they are probably not going to join George Brett at the hall of fame in despite of a more-than-impressive sporting curriculum, and all of that just because of baseball steroids use.