When former Boston Red Sox star Wade Boggs had zero sympathy for former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez's steroid use

Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs revealed in 2013 that he had no sympathy for former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and expressed an uncomprimising stance on A-Rod's PED scandal.

As reported by the Toronto Star, Boggs said:

“It’s a shame he got a half-billion dollars to play baseball."

Wade Boggs was referencing Rodriguez's involvement in the 2013 Biogenesis drug scandal. A-Rod was a star player, but his storied MLB career was marred by his PED-usage.

Rodriguez received a 162-game suspension after confessing to using performance-enhancing drugs in 2013.

Wade Boggs & Alex Rodriguez - Yankees stars

Wade Boggs played with the New York Yankees from 1993 to 1997. With the Yankees, he defeated the Atlanta Braves in the 1996 World Series. Boggs became the 23rd player to accumulate 3,000 hits in a career.

Colorado Rockies v Boston Red Sox

Rodriguez spent 22 years with Major League Baseball, and most of the Yankees' success belongs to him. His sole championship victory came in the 2009 World Series, when the Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies.

Boggs was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005. Given that he was selected by the Red Sox and spent more than 16 years there, Boggs chose to display a Boston Red Sox cap on his Cooperstown plaque in 2005. He spent five seasons with the New York Yankees before playing his final two with the expansion Devil Rays.

As a result, there were numerous suspicions that Boggs was receiving money from the Devil Rays owner in exchange for donning the team's cap on his Hall of Fame plaque. In contrast, Boggs refuted these assertions in an interview with CBS News in 2017:

"I think it came from when Jose Canseco said, 'If I get in the Hall of Fame, I'm going in as a Devil Ray,'" Boggs said. "And someone probably misconstrued that I said that and that Mr. (Vincent) Naimoli offered me a million dollars to be the first Devil Ray to go into the Hall of Fame, and that conversation never took place."

Rodriguez, in addition to serving as the chairman of Presidente Beer, also serves as the chairman and CEO of A-Rod Corp. The Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA) are a part of his ownership.