McGwire admits the obvious: "I used steroids"

Just to see him hit a 300 pop fly every time he bats.

Everyone in life needs to take responsibility for their own actions, not blame society or others for decision they made.

I had to laugh at the “I used very briefly” and “on occasion” comments.

You don’t look like Mcgwire did at his 70 HR peak by using ’roids “on occasion.”

He said he wished he never played during the steroid era?! Ha. Is that because he wishes that he could’ve gotten away with it? That’s the way that I see it. Not that he is blaming others of making him do it so much as him wishing that playing in another era would’ve allowed him to get away with doing this without any suspicion or witch hunt. This is absolutely one of the WORST and most hilarious apologies ever.

And it has nothing to do with PED’s. With Big Mac, I look at a guy who really only excelled in 2 phases of the game: HR and walks. He didn’t provide much value to his teams on the basepaths or with the glove and wasn’t a “hitter” as much as he was a “slugger” (I think the .263 career BA and 583 HR would attest to that). He was a top 5 MVP guy only 3 times, never winning the award. And I find it hard to call a guy a Hall of Famer who threw up batting lines of .231/.339/.467, .235/.370/.489, and .201/.330/.383 in what were ostensibly his prime years.

Mac had a similar HR/AB ratio as Babe Ruth. [Insert kids from The Sandlot screaming “BABE RUTH?!”] He might have bulked up, but he still needed to be able to put the bat on the ball to hit all those HR’s. And it’s not like he was a tiny guy (like Barry Bonds…) to begin with. Yeah, he got bigger, but he was already a strong guy.

That’s what the Mayans predicted anyway. At least I’m assuming the world would end if Jeter was a cheater. ;-)

his career OBP is .394. That’s a lot of outs not made. So there’s that.

“I’m sorry I lived in the punch-your-brother-in-the-thigh era”?

(Btw—I would like to point out that, unlike encephalitic foreheads and ridiculously jacked up power numbers, little siblings do lie).

All the steroids sure have helped.

I agree. There was nothing wrong with it at the time, so why should he be punished for something that happened later? It’s like saying to old-time basketball players that they didn’t hit enough 3-pointers to make the Hall of Fame before the 3-point line was invented.

I agree….this handwringing over PED’s by the “holier than thou” crowd is largely hypocritical poppycock.
Players have ALWAYS sought advantage in all forms of competition going back to the 1860’s when suspected “professionals” were playing the gentlemen’s game. Greenies were used back into the 60’s, at the very least, and there is no one in the 90’s who is above suspicion. Gamblers, racists, spitballers, drug users, and, yes, PED users are all already in the Hall of Fame and there’s a good portion of the media voters are guys living in glass houses, who shouldn’t be throwing stones as they arbitrarily apply a “ban” to SOME steroid users. This litmus test will come to an end when confronted by Bonds & Clemens.
The fact is, McGwire was the biggest name in baseball for several years, with sellout crowds watching batting practice. The IBB stat is a testament to his presence. THAT type of dominance is the definition of a Hall of Famer.
When Clemens faced McGwire, who had the “unfair” advantage?