Joe Posnanski wonders whether, after all this time, that maybe, just maybe, Mark McGwire is the one baseball player who got it right:
…. looking back you have to wonder if McGwire is the one guy in this whole absurd steroid mess who actually got it, the one guy who has come out of this thing with his dignity reasonably intact. McGwire refused to lie to make himself look better. He refused to turn over any of his friends. He also refused to make any admissions, which is looking like the wisest move of all.
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McGwire: Asking me or any other player to answer questions about who took steroids in
front of television cam
eras will not solve the problem. If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed. If he answers yes, he risks public scorn and endless government investigations.
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Well … that was prophetic.
…. And the lesson might be that Mark McGwire really did have it right. People keep trying, but it's becoming more and more apparent that there's no going back and fixing those years before baseball tested for steroids. There's no making many people feel better about that time when offensive numbers exploded (for reasons that, no doubt, go beyond steroid use). There are no new apologies, no total admissions, no way to rewrite history.
We are where we are.
Ditto.
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Double Ditto.
But it was inevitable. Cause and effect. MLB is in trouble because under Selig, it tried to weasel word around the issue instead of just saying and doing the things that needed to be done.
If MLB had gotten in front of this in the first place, the discussion would have been about steroids as a health issue and not a pseudo scandal involving sanctimonious puffery about baseball statistics.
Its been a couple of years but this is what Barry said (thanks to MODI over at Sports On My Mind) at his press conference as he closed in on Aarons record when pressed about how he was handling all the attention from the media
“We just need to go out there and do our jobs, just as you professionals do your job. All you guys lied. All of y’all and the story or whatever have lied. Should you have asterisk behind your name? All of you lied. All of you have said something wrong. All of you have dirt. All of you. When your closet’s clean, then come clean somebody else’s. But clean yours first, okay.”
Yeah. Pretty much