Mark McGwire You Are Forgiven
by Scooter on 01/12/2010 in MLB News
The media has really been a bunch of two face puppet pirates these last couple of days. Mark McGwire was in a no win situation whether he admitted to steroid use or not. The media feeds off the weak just like they did with Tiger Woods.
Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids and his reason was to recover from injury faster which is what Winstrol V (Winny V – street name) does. It helps tendons to heal faster and also speeds up the time for muscles to recover. I know this, because I was a user for more than six months when I was working out. When you are in your 30′s and early 40′s, muscle recovery could take days. When you play 162 games per year, it’s hard to recover and perform at the highest level.
Steroids do not improve hand and eye coordination. It will not help a player hit a 90+ MPH fast ball. Big Mac had good games and bad games, even when he was using. The media has no clue on what certain steroids do and don’t do. They sit back and take pop shots at something they no nothing about.
Big Mac did the right thing regardless of the timing. He was hired by the Cardinals in October to be their hitting coach, and he knew he had to say something before the start of spring training in mid-February. He did just that.
During the home run streak in 1998, McGwire admitted using androstenedione, a steroid precursor that was then legally available and didn’t become a controlled substance until 2004. Again, steroids were not banned until a year after McGwire retired in 2001.
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa saved baseball in 1998 and made every baseball fan locked into their TV sets to see the most exciting home run race in baseball history.
Let god be the judge and not the two face puppet pirates.
Rob
Jan 13th, 2010
My only issue with this is that it makes for an unlevel playing field, period. Some guys would never do it out of principle and that puts them at a competitive disadvantage. What I don’t hear anyone talking about is what affect steroids/PEDs have on a MLB caliber hitter, who already has the hand-eye coordination trained by years in the big leagues who is given the body and strength of a 20 year-old elite athlete.
I hate this for MM – I always liked him and Sosa and enjoyed that season immensely. But it’s ultimately a matter of integrity and all these guys – Bonds being first – should have their records removed.
August
Jan 18th, 2010
He’s not forgiven until he gives back all the money he stole conning the people out of their hard-earned money pretending to be a Sports Superstar when in reality he was a drug addicted fraud!
JonTx
Jan 22nd, 2010
Anyone who cheats, has cheapened the game of baseball and distorted the records of all players.
It is ridiculous for MM to say steroids have (or had) no effect on his playing and performance. Yeah Mark, the natural eye/hand coordination you possessed was “god-given”- the assertion from the writer that steroids don’t affect eye / hand coordination is simply false;
but your faster muscle recovery, faster ability to “pull the trigger” on pitches and get around on them don’t count huh?? Not too mention greater overall strength and bat speed….
Face it, you lied numerous times about this issue- you are a man without integrity and your word means nothing. You have cheated your fellow teamates, all players who DID NOT CHEAT, and the public / fans.