Throughout his Hall of Fame-worthy (go ahead and @ me, bro) Major League Baseball career, Alex Rodriguez did not always play clean. In new HBO docuseries Alex vs. ARod , directed by Gotham Chopra and Erik LeDrew, Rodriguez finally comes clean about his on-again, off-again performance-enhancing drug (PED) use, and the untruths he told to cover it up along the way.

In the doc as well as in our conversation below, Rodriguez, now 50, is forthcoming, thoughtful and an excellent conversationist. If only he had been able to tap into this part of himself a decade earlier, baseball writers may have given him a pass to Cooperstown by now. But in life, as in baseball, not everything’s a home run — there are errors and strikeouts along the way, too. Alex vs. ARod taps into all mos

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