I'm done with these steroid guys and their pointless admissions and confessions. Until one of them offers up some sincerity and actually apologizes for what they did then I don't care. After watching Mark McGwire's interview with Bob Costas on the MLB Network last night I figured it all out.
Mark McGwire said he took steroids for health reasons and that they didn't affect his power numbers. If he actually believes this, he's an absolute moron. Look at the numbers during that era, and look at them before and after. He hit over 200 home runs in a 4 year span. And it wasn't just him, it was everyone. The numbers during that era don't match any numbers during any other time frame in the history of the sport. So either McGwire is just that dumb, or he's oblivious to the impact that steroids actually had on the sport.
I saw a story that Jeremy Schapp of ESPN did this morning and he said that, one time a reporter brought up steroids and began to ask McGwire about them. Not accusing him of anything but just bringing them up. Apparently McGwire chastised and even questioned this reporters manhood. Mark McGwire is the same guy who after breaking the record had the audacity to go over and embrace Roger Maris' children and widow.
The problem with these guys is they don't actually see the impact or care about what they've done to baseball. They apologize when it's convenient for them. Mark McGwire only apologized because he's getting back into baseball and doesn't want to be hounded by reporters each and every day. A-Rod only apologized, because SI reporter Selena Roberts had broken a story about his steroid use. Both of those two guys have stated that they don't believe the steroids impacted their numbers. What they did was cheat and lie to the fans. The fans who have followed this game through thick and thin for well over 100 years. The fans who bought tickets, purchased merchandise and bought into these heroic warriors hitting the ball farther than anyone had done it before. It had been generations since Maris, Ruth, Mantle, Mays, and Williams. We wanted our own pillars of the sport. We had McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds. But these guys are frauds. They've put themselves above the sport.
I used to think that if you voted anyone from the steriod era into the hall of fame, that you had to allow them all in. I used to think that the hall of fame would be pointless without having the all time home run leader in there, without having guys like Clemens and McGwire in there. Well we've been fine without having the all time hits leader in there. I've changed my opinion now. I want each player judged on an individual basis. McGwire, Clemens, Sosa, and Bonds absolutely not. Griffey, Johnson, Thome, and Jeter are in. I want my hall of famers to put the game above themselves. If you cheat the game and the fans by taking PED's or betting on baseball, then you shouldn't get in. I know there are hall of famers who are evil men, but it's a new era now. We've hopefully just got beyond one of the darkest era's in the history of baseball.
In closing I'm just sick of the pointless, useless admissions from these guys. I want a guy to come out and look into the camera and say, "I cheated the sport and my fans. My numbers are all skewed and there is really no way of knowing what I would have done without them. I want to apologize to all of the players that I selfishly passed up because I put myself ahead of them too. I wanted to be good, and wanted to be rich, and was willing to sacrifice anything. I apologize for the message I sent all of the kids out there that looked up to me. I was overwhelmed with the limelight and wasn't man enough to put in the time and hard work to become the player I should have been. I cheated to get ahead, and put myself ahead of the sport, my teammates, and my fans." That is the apology I want. Be a man for once, and come clean. It's kind of funny how everyone in baseball criticized Jose Canseco so much when he first revealed this giant baseball secret. It's funny because just about everything he's said has been true.
3 comments:
I agree. None of them should get in. McGuire is probably the biggest duesche of them all.
I appreciate your passion, but I still don't understand how you determine who used and who didn't? Is it just whoever admitted? Whoever was named in investigations? Whoever was named in Jose Canseco's book? You are walking a fine line when you start eliminating people from Hall consideration during an era when many players were using some sort of PED.
Finally, who had more bacne in their prime injecting periods? Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, or Sammy Sosa. I say it's Sammy Sosa by a whitehead.
Since we don't know everyone that did or did not use during that period, we can really only guess and assume, which isn't fair to those that didn't but, but those that did put the fans and voters in that situation.
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