McGwire Cheated

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<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->* Let’s establish the fact that McGwire feels that he would have hit 70 homers in 1998 without steroids. He’s still clinging to the life raft made of bullshit about bat speed and genetics and hand-eye coordination that the “Man Upstairs” had given him. So Costas asks him if he has talked to anyone in the Maris family. You remember the Marises, right? Their dad broke Babe Ruth’s single season home run record in 1961. He had to deal with his own fans rooting against him that season because they didn’t think he was a “true” Yankee, and that if anybody was going to break the Babe’s record it was the alcoholic, sex addict they had in centerfield. The stress of the chase and the fan reaction caused Maris to suffer ulcers and his hair started falling out. After Maris broke the record, he had to deal with the Commissioner of Baseball, Ford Frick (almost as big of a delusional douchebag as current Interim-Commissioner-For-Life-And-Used-Car-Salesman Bud Selig) declaring an asterisk (or “asterick” if you are Katie Couric) be placed on the record because the season was eight games longer in 1961 than it was in 1927 when the Babe set the record. Frick didn’t bother to put an asterisk next to the Babe’s noting that he played at a time when blacks and Latin Americans weren’t allowed to play. You probably also remember that McGwire did all kinds of phony bullshit during the home run record chase, like fondle the bat (on loan from the Hall of Fame) that Maris had hit 61 with, and he played nice with the Maris family and told them how much he admired their father. He was doing all of this while injecting steroids into his body to combat an injury that apparently didn’t exist in 1998. OK, so now Costas has asked him if he has talked to any of the Marises since he announced he’d used steroids. McGwire said he had called Roger’s widow, Pat. “She was disappointed and she has every right to be. I couldn’t tell her how so sorry I was.” What the hell are you sorry for? You claim that you would have hit those 70 homers anyway. You claim that steroids don’t hit baseballs, and that they had nothing to do with any of your homers. What are you apologizing for? And on top of that, why are you crying? What is the matter with you? Were you injecting Winstrol or estrogen? Suck it up, man. Grow a pair! (Actually, given some of the side effects of prolonged steroid use, you might literally need a pair, because yours might be gone.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->* Costas asked McGwire when Tony found out and McGwire says he told him that morning. Does anybody really believe this at all? How arrogant are the Fleischer-LaRussa-McGwire cabal, that they think anyone would actually believe that Tony LaRussa hasn’t known that guys on his teams have been juicing since the mid 1980s? No manager has benefited more from the rampant use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (and continues to) than Tony LaRussa. Dusty Baker and Joe Torre are certainly in the team picture, but Tony’s the captain of this ship. LaRussa says that he didn’t know, just that his amateur strength coach/first base coach Dave MacKay, started the guys on weightlifting regimens during the 80s in Oakland and the team benefited from that “advantage.” Oh, there was an advantage, all right.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bingo.