Nice posts smc & shadows.
I've only seen excerpts of McGwire's interview, but I didn't fall for his crocodile tears. What does he want? A f
cking Oscar. Maybe he taught Paltrow how to weep to order when she collected her 'Best Actress' award.
The "I only took small amounts to help recover from injuries and to cope with the strain of a 162 game schedule", sounds like bullsh
t to me.
If anyone in baseball would have
'needed' steroids to help get through a 162 game season then that would've been the hero who managed to string together a run of 2,632 games, he played through a f
ck of a lot of injuries.
But somehow he knew taking steroids was wrong, even though the Commissioner and MLB failed to implement doping tests in baseball long after other sports had done the decent thing.
Taking steroids in baseball may not have been banned in McGwire's time, but he knew it was wrong. Look at the size of him when he hit that record breaking homer, how did he manage to run the bases carrying that upper body around?
Would he have still hit 583 homers without the steroids?
We'll never know... will we?
So he can't say "Yes, I would have." Unless he can find a time machine, travel back to before his first 'juicing' and then play his career again... clean.
Where's the Doctor when you need him? Oops!
That's what probably got McGwire into trouble in the first place.
I bet Bonds is currently enjoying all the attention being on someone else.
-----------------
When it comes to steroids, I'm surprised no athletes have been nobbled by opponents. There must be some dodgy coaches/athletes out there who've wanted/tried to spike the competition's food/drink with the hope that they'll get caught by the testers.