Mark McGwire admits steroid use. I am shocked. SHOCKED, I say!
by Stacey on Jan 11, 2010 5:28 PM EST
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PrintAs has been reported by a number of outlets, Mark McGwire today admitted that he used steroids and human growth hormone "on and off" for about a decade.
Well. You don't say.
I don't really care much about steroids. I mean, they're bad, duh. But the outrage and betrayal I felt when Rafael Palmeiro tested positive has given way to just a dull annoyance that I have to hear about them AGAIN. Pitchers used steroids. Hitters used steroids. Everybody used steroids! At this point I just want to get on with baseball. The hand wringing and media hoopla is frankly more than I can care about.
When McGwire was hired as the Cardinals hitting coach it became just a matter of time before we heard a statement from him on the issue. It was bound to be a questions asked by reporters and McGwire had to head them off at the pass.
While for the most part McGwire sounds remorseful in his statement, I roll my eyes mightily at, "I did this for health purposes. There's no way I did this for any type of strength use." Um, ok, Mark. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
If you want to see how Cardinals fans are reacting, check out the post at Viva el Birdos.
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for more self-serving explanations from McGwire,
tune into MLB network tonight at 7pm EST for his interview with Bob Costas:
MARK McGWIRE TO BE INTERVIEWED EXCLUSIVELY BY MLB NETWORK’S BOB COSTAS TONIGHT LIVE AT 7:00 P.M. ET
Costas Gets First TV Interview with McGwire Since Admitting to Use of Performing Enhancing Drugs During His MLB Career
Secaucus, NJ, January 11, 2010 – MLB Network’s Bob Costas will have an exclusive in-depth television interview with Mark McGwire tonight on MLB Network live at 7:00 p.m. ET about McGwire’s admission of using performance enhancing drugs during his career. This is the first television interview granted by McGwire since he admitted using PEDs in a statement earlier today.
Following the exclusive interview, MLB Network’s Matt Vasgersian, Mitch Williams, Joe Magrane, Tom Verducci and Ken Rosenthal will discuss their reactions to the conversation. Costas will provide reaction from location in California and MLB Network’s Harold Reynolds and Peter Gammons will also provide commentary.
Wait, I think this might be an exclusive interview. Did you get that message? That’s amazing, that the MLB network, owned by the MLB, gets the first interview with McGwire, who basically trashed the sport while the MLB looked the other way.
You don’t think it’s an MLB exclusive because they want to do damage control and lob softballs at McGwire, do you? I’m sure there will be many hard-hitting interviews with other outlets following this one, right?
(holds hand to earpiece) What? …..What’s that? ……..Oh, I see.
Apparently, this will also be the ONLY interview McGwire gives. What a shocker.
"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic
I always laugh when I see "PEDs."
I used to have a lot of PEDs dispensers. Bugs Bunny, GI Joe, etc. Every morning I would roll out of bed in my feetie PJs, take my Flintstone vitamins, and pop some PEDs.
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
Ugh
So basically, the only reason McGwire took steroids was for health reasons, not to get stronger. Which, he said in his statement but when Costas asked him if he thought taking steroids helped him hit more home runs he was like, “No. I’m talented. It’s my God given talent that allowed me to hit home runs,” and then Bob Costas was like, “Of course you have talent, steroids isn’t going to make an untalented person be able to hit home runs, but do you think the steroids helped you hit MORE home runs?” and he was all, “No, steroids didn’t affect me at all that way. I hit more home runs in little league and high school and college and blah blah than anyone, I didn’t need steroids to hit home runs. I don’t think steroids helped me hit one more home run than I would have otherwise.” And then Bob Costas says, “But how about the fact that you went from x amount of home runs in this year to a ridiculous amount in these other years,” and he says, “That had nothing to do with steroids, my swing just evolved.” Which, SHUT UP MARK MCGWIRE. You’re either a liar and think that everyone else is stupid, or you’re a moron.
Oh and then he starts crying about how this is the hardest day ever for him blah blah and then he’s apologizing to everyone in the world including the Marises, and I was like, “Oh if steroids never helped you hit one single more home run why are you apologizing to the Maris family?”
OH and he basically blamed his tainted legacy on the fact that he played in the steroids era. He only took steroids to help with his injuries but everyone thinks he took them to hit home runs and if ONLY he’d played in a different era none of that would have happened. And if ONLY baseball had tested for steroids back then he’d never be in this predicament!
And the BEST part was how he kept saying that keeping this secret was so so so hard on him. For the past five years he’s been living in misery because people are making all of these assumptions about him. It’s been so hard! And people don’t vote for him for the hall of fame because of all of these assumptions that they were making and life isn’t fair. Never mind the fact that the assumptions were totally true.
The whole thing was so stupid. I wasn’t even watching it until my friend was like, “you have to turn this on, it’s ridiculous.”
Wow that's pretty absurd.
Yeah I saw that quote about wishing he never played in the steroids era. haha Motherfucker you’re one of the people who made it the steroids era!
Yup ridiculous
I’m pissed that my cable provider still doesn’t carry the MLB network.
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.
I don't get it either
It’s offered by my cable provider but I don’t get that package. But they stream a lot of stuff live on mlb.com. Not all of the programming, but special events like that interview and I think maybe during the season they show that MLB Tonight or whatever it’s called.
Watched it all
and watched much of the MLB Network react. So much of the interview was cringe inducing for obvious reasons. I was pretty dissapointed that Verducci and Magrane didn’t give him a harder time for some of the crap he was saying, but Baltimore boy Ken Rosenthal totally nailed it and he really put into words what so much of us were thinking during the interview.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank the Pretend Commissioner again for his role in keeping the sport free of sunstance abuse
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Greedy. Hypocritical. Moron.
“Selig has been widely criticized for not taking an active enough role to stem the tide of steroid use in baseball until it had blossomed into a debilitating problem for the industry. Chicago Sun Times columnist Jay Mariotti called Selig the ‘The Steroids Commissioner.’ Selig has been called to Congress several times to testify on performance enhancing drug use. Congressman Cliff Stearns said in December 2007 that Selig should resign because of use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball during his tenure.”
But you know another funny thing? PC Bud does connect baseball and ethics. Just not American baseball…
“Selig and his family served a supportive role on the Advisory Board of the Israel Baseball League during its inaugural season in 2007. In response to issues with the league’s financial management, after the season, the Selig family requested that their names be removed from the list of board members.”
Go ahead: laugh, cry, hurl. He’s yours til 2012.
“When the owners simply appoint another owner as Commissioner, then Baseball has no Commissioner.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Selig
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
Turns Out Craig Counsell Was Actually Best Player Of Steroid Era
The news reminded me of this gem from America’s Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/turns_out_craig_counsell
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