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[[Image:A-rod1.jpg|thumb|280px|Public opinion was hostile to A-Rod's drug use as a betrayal of youth]]

[[Image:A-rod1.jpg|thumb|280px|Public opinion was hostile to A-Rod's drug use as a betrayal of youth]]

Although numerous PED revelations have come before Rodriguez's, it was a very damaging incident to the MLB because Rodriguez was viewed to be the savior of the league in that he was projected to cleanly break the all-time home-run record of [[Barry Bonds]]', a suspected steroid user currently on trial for perjury.<ref>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/michael_mccann/02/18/bonds.trial/?eref=sircrc</ref>

Although numerous PED revelations have come before Rodriguez's, it was a very damaging incident to the MLB because Rodriguez was viewed to be the savior of the league in that he was projected to cleanly break the all-time home-run record of [[Barry Bonds]], a suspected steroid user currently on trial for perjury.<ref>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/michael_mccann/02/18/bonds.trial/?eref=sircrc</ref>

A controversy regarding the PED revelation is the conduct of both the players' union and the federal agents who seized the test samples.  The sample that tested positive for PED was part of an anonymous testing in 2003 which took place to decide, based on the percentage of players taking PEDs at the time, whether random testing should be implemented in the future.  However, the test results were not destroyed as agreed upon by the MLB and the player's union and were later confiscated by federal agents.  Furthermore, out of the 104 names that tested positive, only Rodriguez's name has been leaked.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/sports/baseball/09union.html?ref=sports</ref>

A controversy regarding the PED revelation is the conduct of both the players' union and the federal agents who seized the test samples.  The sample that tested positive for PED was part of an anonymous testing in 2003 which took place to decide, based on the percentage of players taking PEDs at the time, whether random testing should be implemented in the future.  However, the test results were not destroyed as agreed upon by the MLB and the player's union and were later confiscated by federal agents.  Furthermore, out of the 104 names that tested positive, only Rodriguez's name has been leaked.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/sports/baseball/09union.html?ref=sports</ref>