Ken Rosenthal of FOX has it so right: Mark McGwire's admissions and apologies were a joke. Though fairness prompts me to point out Rosenthal did not actually use the word "joke." I did. Because it applies.
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McGwire needs to truly come clean
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I'll bet McGwire really believes all he needed to crush dingers was something to keep him upright at the plate, and allow his back to recover from taking hours of daily batting practice. I think he cheated. But even if he ackowledges it helped to the public, I doubt he truly thinks it was anything but "BIG MAC" himself doing it.
Big Mac should give Charlie Hustle a call for some advice on what to do if you are banned from Cooperstown.
what do you do if you are banned from cooperstown?
you fight in wrestlemania!
His "bash" brother is fighting in K1 and writing books about his doping days. Maybe he can collaborate by sharing with the adoring fans where he acquired his "creatine" juice.
Or, you can be like Pete Rose, and have people laugh their asses off when you're conned into a fake interview while sitting on Mexican gardeners doubling as chairs, and politely declining an assortment from a sushi platter being served from head to toe off the top of a hairy nude Mexican guy in an outtake from "Bruno." I just got done watching it, and I'm still giggling.
Back on topic… I think the only reason McGuire said anything at this point is because he is the hitting coach for the Cardinals and he (a) knew that the media wouldn't let go of this during the season and he just needed to say it and get it over with and (b) because he didn't want the players that he would be coaching to be under suspicion the whole time. (There's more to hitting than just power – steroids don't improve your hand/eye coordination, mechanics, timing, etc.)
Now, will any of that stop? Based on the fact that we're all STILL beating this horse to death how many years later – NO. But, he tried and hopefully laid the groundwork to get through the season with the focus on the TEAM and not his past sins. (Because God knows the media are saints and have never done anything wrong and should be the judge and jury of all of us.)
(BTW, no offense, Pat – I don't group you in with the folks that make me want to puke with all their pontificating on this topic. I love how all the baseball players are the scum of the earth, but we look the other way on guys like Shawne Merriman…)
—insert Alan's Tila Tequila joke here —
Elizabeth, seeing a flabby flaming red-haired baseball legend Pete Rose literally whistling his way through the doors into his interview and then sitting on top of a Mexican and declining sushi being served off a naked guy isn't on-topic? What post were you reading?