Mark McGwire finally comes clean.
It didn't surprise anyone, as Tony La Russa plans to bring this once-mighty slugger to the St. Louis Cardinals as their hitting coach. And after all the years of saying nothing about his steroid and human growth hormone use and disappearing from the public eye, the one thing he has to do in order to make a comeback is to come clean.
La Russa even said that McGwire might be used as a designated hitter next season.
Of all the high profile baseball players alleged to have used illegal performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), McGwire is probably the one the fans are most forgiving about, since he has never denied it (cf. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens) and never lied to the Congress (cf. Miguel Tejada and Rafael Palmeiro). His silence and shying away from the spotlight make fans like Yours Truly feel that he is ashamed of and sorry about what he has done.
Fans are forgiving, especially if a player is sincere about and remorseful of his wrongdoings. That is why Andy Pettitte, an admitted PED-user, has been given an all-clear by the public since his candid admission.
And one has to wonder if Bonds or Clemens are regretting about anything right now.
Yours Truly first paid real attention to baseball in the late 1980s', when the Oakland Athletics, with the "Bash Brothers" of McGwire and Jose Canseco, were the team to beat. That is why Yours Truly always have a soft spot for McGwire, who some could say was my first baseball idol.
And his admission, though years too late, is evidence that he is still worth Yours Truly's admiration after all those years.
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