Big Mac comes clean,
Mark McGwire admitted today what we all knew but waited 5 years to hear from Big Red.
"I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come. It's time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected. I used steroids during my playing career and I apologize. I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989/1990 off season and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again. I used them on occasion throughout the '90s, including during the 1998 season.”
Where do we go from here? It has been several years since Big Mac cranked his last home run and he is coming back to the game to be the hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mark will never be looked at the same way, and that is something that he brought upon himself, but he does deserve forgiveness. Should we treat him like a hero? No, admitting that you have done something wrong is an expected behavior in our society. Should we continue to ostracize him? No! Mark, deserves better and should get better from the baseball community.
We just saw the election of Andre Dawson to the baseball hall of fame and I can only hope that the call for big mac will not be far away. Did mac cheat? Yes, he just admitted it. Does the hall of fame admit cheaters? I think they have already and will admit more in the future. The baseball hall of fame is a museum of people who played baseball at the highest level. It is not the integrity HOF, or the good guy HOF or the “I never used PED HOF.” We need to ask ourselves one question, “Does Mark McGwire belong in the HOF?” Any answer that does not end in yes would be an incorrect answer in my opinion. I think he will be in the HOF no earlier than 2011 but no later than 2014. And that is exactly where he belongs!
