Many of you reporters are huge hypocrites. You got what you wanted, but then you writers or should I say “media lynch mob” swarm the guy with more false accusations and bashing. If you don’t like McGwire, that’s fine. But be honest with yourself and let the past go! Unfortunately, the 1st Amendment allows you to exist.

Here are some letters to Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports – one of the biggest hypocrites in the sports writing.

“Your column says volumes about how useless a degree in journalism is in today’s sports. Sounds like you were schooled in the Rush Limbaugh school of journalism. How sad and how unfair.”

Anthony Goins
Battle Creek, Mich.

“You completely ignored the reason why he did not confess in 2005. You also completely ignored the confirmed statement that he wanted to come clean at that Congressional hearing, but that he was not able to acquire immunity. … And waste your time in 1998? I was enthralled and so were you. Waste your time last night? Why watch then? Why post an article? He didn’t waste your time, he contributed to your financial stability by allowing you to report in a fashion of negativity with the sole aim of humiliating a humiliated man and garnering attention. … At least you don’t get a HOF vote, not because you won’t vote McGwire in, but because in your attitude you wouldn’t vote anyone in with whom you have a casual dislike towards for any mistake they may have made. Hell, would you have even voted for Alomar this year?”

David Reynolds
Boston

These are two outstanding comments and I am sure Tim Brown will keep on writing more useless articles. I am not a fan, but continue to put out more of the same and maybe Yahoo will finally wake up and have you clean windows instead.

McGwire admitted Monday that he used steroids for a decade, including when he hit 70 homers in 1998, but denied Canseco’s claims that he injected himself and McGwire with steroids in bathroom stalls.

“I’ve defended Mark, I know a lot of good things about him,” Canseco told ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago on Tuesday. “I can’t believe he just called me a liar. Umm, there’s something very strange going on here.

Canseco is now calling manager (Tony La Russa) a liar because he didn’t know that McGwire used steroids.

“That’s a blatant lie,” Canseco said. “There are some things here that are so ridiculous, and so disrespectful for the public and the media to believe. I just can’t believe it. I’m in total shock. These guys remind me of politicians that go up and just lie to the public and expect to get elected.”

Canseco, who blew the whistle on many players in his 2005 book, “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big,” is still trying to stay in the spotlight, but for all the wrong reasons.

Why would a steroids offender try to upset the baseball world? IMO he needs the money and the spotlight.

Sorry to say, but Jose walk away!

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.

McGwire is bad for the game period! He hasn’t been honest with himself, Congress or his fans. McGwire has been unwilling to answer allegations about performance-enhancing drugs. Big Mac may have to answer questions now that he is back in the spotlight.

I am not a fan of any player that cheated during the steroid era. It is a shame that Mark McGwire was part of this era as he and Sammy Sosa in a way, saved baseball during the Home Run Derby of sorts.

La Russa must be dreaming or did he pass out in his car again? Stop hitting up happy hour Tony! Do you really want that kind of media attention considering that you have only named him and not introduced him publicly as your hitting coach?

Here’s what other writers had to say courtesy of Yahoo’s blog by David Brown.

• If McGwire did play, it would stop the clock on his Hall of Fame eligibility. N.Y. Daily News
• And, as Matthew Leach notes, McGwire’s support ain’t so good right now. MLB.com
• Jonah Keri is all for McGwire batting again, and not simply for the novelty. Such a move might circumvent BBWAA members who abuse their voting privileges. JonahKeri.com
• Ah, c’mon, McGwire’s not coming back, Tommy Craggs writes. La Russa’s just messing with reporters he considers anti-Big Mac. Deadspin
• You just never know with La Russa, though. Fans in St. Louis seem to be having a mixed reaction at this possibility. Cardinal Beat at StlToday.com
• While pondering McGwire’s comeback, check out the Cardinals roster broken down into awesome pie graph form. Mmm, pie graph. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Gwen Knapp wonders: If McGwire gets forgiven, what about Barry Bonds(notes)? S.F. Chronicle

Big Mac just needs to stay at home and hope he will be forgiven and maybe have a chance to be voted into the Hall of Fame.