Injecting some truth

No need to cry, big guy. We’re betting it did not come as a huge surprise to her or anyone else.
Mark McGwire admits to steroid and Human Growth Hormone use.
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"I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids," he said in … (wait for it) … a statement to A.P. "I had good years when I didn’t take any and I had bad years when I didn’t take any. I had good years when I took steroids and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn’t have done it and for that I’m truly sorry."
Mark McGwire’s voice "cracked with emotion" when he relayed to respected Associated Press reporter Ronald Blum how he had to tell his wife and family that, yes, he had used steroids.
"It's the first time they’ve ever heard me, you know, talk about this," McGwire said. "I hid it from everybody."
"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 nineties, including during the 1998 season."

McGwire’s hope is to undo all the lies that he has lived with since he sat down in front of that U.S. congressional committee in 2005 and refused to admit then what he is admitting to now.
Who among us wouldn’t have bet that McGwire had gone needle for needle with all of those guys from his era: Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, A-Rod, Roger Clemens …?
It was the worst-kept secret in sports. But today, McGwire felt the need to come clean -- with the AP statement, a follow-up interview with Blum, and a further interview set for Monday evening on the player-friendly MLB TV.

"Now that I have become the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, I have the chance to do something that I wish I was able to do five years ago," is how McGwire began his statement -- which in this business is a way to get your version of the news out there without having to face any media scrutiny, or verify any facts.
But is he telling the truth even now? Do you get that big, that powerful by using steroids "on occasion through the nineties?"
Not even close, pal. You get the results that McGwire got by sticking to a rigorous drug program administered by a physician with expertise in the field.
Ben Johnson had Dr. Jamie Astaphan. Bonds had BALCO’s Victor Conte.
And you’re telling us, Mark, that you did it all yourself? "Occasionally" pulling out the steroids and firing up a syringe?
Personally, too many athletes made the steroid "mistake" to carry a grudge. We forgive all of them.
It is the ones like Bonds, Clemens and McGwire who we just do not like. Not because of the steroids, but because of the lies.
Watch McGwire on TV Monday night. We’re betting that, even in his moment of truth and great revelation, he won’t let the facts get in the way of a great apology.
He also goes down that well travelled road, claiming that after a laundry list of injuries that occurred during the mid-90s, McGwire turned to steroids "to help me recover faster." The greater likelihood is that all the steroids he consumed in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s were at the root of all of those injuries.
But, in the end, he has come clean. And we’re all supposed to begin the process of falling over ourselves to commend his courage, and forgive his mistakes.