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Inside the Press Box: Confession of Convenience
Posted on Thursday, January 14 @ 11:13:31 CST by marty
maury writes "Mark McGwire comes out clean, he used steroids!
Wow, was Hitler a Nazi?Is Fidel Castro a communist?
Can you gamble in Reno? McGwire's confession is nothing more than a move so he can have a clean slate, and less questions about steroids when he reports next month to Florida for the Cardinals spring training as their new batting coach.
But Tony LaRussa always liked McGwire over Canseco.
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In 1987 Mark McGwire hit 49 home runs, still a record for a rookie in the Major Leagues. He was a good player from the start. Nobody talked about steroids in 1987. I remember covering a pre-Olympic baseball game at Candlestick Park in which McGwire played third base for the USA team against Japan. He a tall and skinny kid from Pomona. Years later he was Paul Bunyan.
The Bob Costas interview in which Mark McGwire confessed to have used steroids was as much as a surprise as the sun rising this morning. Excuse me for being cynical, but I don't see any great quality on this, it is like a woman telling a man "oh yeah, I was pregnant with your child "when in fact everybody new it and the kid is alrady 10 years old.
In my book it takes much more of a man to come out clean early, like Jose Canseco, he had cojones. I might not agree with everything, but I can appreciate somebody that speaks the truth. There is nothing worse than a hypocrite. Most people will rather hear the truth and deal with it, than be deceived later. This is a true characteristic of the American people, "tell me truth early and I will deal with it:, "tell me the truth later...let me think about it"
Mark McGwire will have 100X100 support from his manager Tony LaRussa. Tony always liked McGwire over Jose Canseco. When they where both playing with the A'S in the early 1980's, I could easily see that. A few years ago LaRussa said that he didn't believed McGwire took steroids, that he admired McGwire, because he always worked very hard at his craft.
Tony LaRussa was quickly to critizice Canseco, but always hesitant to do same on McGwire, there is a very transparent bias here. Tony is a Hall of Fame manager, but a man that likes to control the situation. I would not be surprised however, if Tony had spoken in private with McGwire after he got him the job of batting instructor and told him to: "come clean before Spring Training for the good of the team". I honeslty believe this whole "MCGwire return to baseball"was done in stages and they hope the final stage was the interview with Bob Costas.
I like Tony, he is a smart man, and I simply cannot believe he didn't know about McGwire, he can spin it anyway he wants, I just cannot believe it.
There is no plastic surgery for the steroids era in baseball. It is like a big deep scar on the face of the game, a scar that would take generations to go away. Nobody wins here. Remember the year in the 90's when Brady Anderson of the Orioles, as a lead up hitter hit over 50 home runs? Nobody was questionintg that because, everybody was hitting home runs, people where filling seats, the owners where counting the money, the agents where going to the bank, it was almost like a scene from the movie Casino.
There still not a conclusion to this steroids era, we still have Barry Lamar Bonds pending close to a dozen perjury charges in Federal Court on the BALCO case. Let's face it, if McGwire was Big Mac, then Bonds is Bigger Bonds. We are still living in the steroids era, nobody should be surprised if any current player is found positive, or ex-players come forward to "confess". The only guy left that would demand a bigger stage for a confession is Barry Bonds.In other words Bonds would not confess to Costas of MLB.TV but probably to CBS "60 Minutes".
In the meantime, Jose Canseco, cancelled an interview he had scheduled with CNN'S Larry King. My sources tell me that Canseco's father is not doing very well, as far as his health is concerned in his home in south Florida.
Can you image what's going on in Pete Rose's mind as this non-sense continues to develop?
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