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Don't Cry for Mark McGwire

Confessed steroid user is no victim

By M. Morris,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 11, 2010 6:17 PM CST

(Newser) – Mark McGwire's acknowledgment that he used steroids is no surprise to "anyone with a lick of sense," and the backlash now that he's finally fessed up shouldn't come as a shock, either. "Like all confessions that are motivated by public relations as opposed to, say, police interrogation, this one has many of the hallmarks of phoniness we've come to expect," writes Craig Calcaterra for MSNBC.

What McGwire really thinks of steroid use is academic, because joining the "steroids are bad" chorus was likely a condition of his employment as the Cardinals' hitting coach. The confession "doesn't tell us anything particularly interesting or anything new," Calcaterra writes. "The only really significant question it does raise is whether the legions of writers who have called for McGwire to 'come clean' will now acknowledge that he has come clean or, rather, use this occasion to excoriate him further."

Mark McGwire smiles as he rounds the bases after hitting his 70th home run of the season at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Sept. 27, 1998.
Mark McGwire smiles as he rounds the bases after hitting his 70th home run of the season at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Sept. 27, 1998.   (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
Former St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire gets emotional during pregame ceremonies honoring him in St. Louis, April 17, 2004.
Former St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire gets emotional during pregame ceremonies honoring him in St. Louis, April 17, 2004.   (AP Photo/Kyle Ericson, File)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 12 comments
t0ak
Jan 12, 2010 12:55 PM CST
when's his autobiography "Big man Little dick" written by someone else coming out?
Derni
Jan 12, 2010 12:54 PM CST
Yes-now if he won medals in the olmpics he would be told to return them and his records would not stand-but in baseball he can use his steriods and the go before Congress and not say anything-then he can take a record away from a baseball player that earned it the good old fashion way-and now that the Cardinals want him as thgeir batting coach he has to make "things right"-baseball is a joke-the records of the guys that used steriods are a joke-and if they ever get into the hall of fame the name shoiuld be changed to the "hall of infamy." and yes-I don't attend major league baseball games-its a sham.
Netstorm2k10
Jan 12, 2010 12:21 PM CST
I wasn't going to.

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