Category Archives: Mark McGwire

McGwire needs to truly come clean

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Pat McManamon

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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Mark McGwire's coming clean …

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Pat McManamon

I love Jack Clark.

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Mark McGwire's carefully planned mea culpa

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Pat McManamon

The New York Times points out that Mark McGwire's "come clean" strategy and tearful confessions were "coordinated over the past month by Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary who runs a crisis-communications company, and the St. Louis Cardinals … Continue reading →

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Mark McGwire's comments

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Pat McManamon

Mark McGwire said he never took steroids to help his performance, only for medical reasons. Medical reasons. Right.

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Bud Selig sure knows how to calm a controversy

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Pat McManamon

For some reason I'm king of entranced by the baseball-steroid mess, in a car-accident kind of way. Rarely have so many cheated so blatantly, lied about it and then pretended it had no affect on astronomically inflated numbers. An entire … Continue reading →

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