McGwire Admits Using STEROIDS -- WILL BARRY COME CLEAN, TOO?
spicpussy
major league baseball history.
From his outrageously incredible batting records to his outlandishly
bloated body, Barry, who most believe is also guilty of perjury, is
among baseball's most odious cheaters.
Come clean, Barry, before your massive head explodes!
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"McGwire admits to steroid use"
Associated Press via Fox Sports
Updated Jan 11, 2010 3:37 PM ET
Mark McGwire finally came clean Monday, admitting he used steroids
when he broke Baseball's Home run record in 1998.
McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday
that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade.
"I wish I had never touched steroids," McGwire said in a statement.
"It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back,
I wish I had never played during the steroid era."
McGwire also used human growth hormone, a person close to McGwire
said, speaking on condition of anonymity because McGwire didn't
include that detail in his statement.
FOX SPORTS POLL
How should baseball handle Mark McGwire's place in the record books?
* He belongs there, steroid use or not
* Leave him in, with an asterisk
* Wipe him from the books
McGwire's decision to admit using steroids was prompted by his
decision to become hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals, his final
big league team. Tony La Russa, McGwire's manager in Oakland and St.
Louis, has been among McGwire's biggest supporters and thinks
returning to the field can restore the former slugger's reputation.
"I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come," McGwire
said. "It's time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what
people have suspected."
He became the second major baseball star in less than a year to admit
using illegal steroids, following the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez
last February.
Others have been tainted but have denied knowingly using illegal
drugs, including Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and David
Ortiz.
Bonds has been indicted on charges he made false statements to a
federal grand jury and obstructed justice. Clemens is under
investigation by a federal grand jury trying to determine whether he
lied to a congressional committee.
"I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs
had I never taken steroids," McGwire said. "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."
Big Mac's reputation has been in tatters since March 17, 2005, when he
refused to answer questions at a Congressional hearing. Instead, he
repeatedly said "I'm not here to talk about the past" when asked
whether he took illegal steroids when he hit a then-record 70 home
runs in 1998 or at any other time.
"After all this time, I want to come clean," he said. "I was not in a
position to do that five years ago in my congressional testimony, but
now I feel an obligation to discuss this and to answer questions about
it. I'll do that, and then I just want to help my team."
The person close to McGwire said McGwire made the decision not to
answer questions at that hearing on the advice of his lawyers.
McGwire disappeared from the public eye following his retirement as a
player following the 2001 season. When the Cardinals hired the 47-year-
old as coach on Oct. 26, they said he would address questions before
spring training, and Monday's statement broke his silence.
"I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989/1990 offseason
and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again," McGwire
said in his statement. "I used them on occasion throughout the '90s,
including during the 1998 season."
McGwire said he took steroids to get back on the field, sounding much
like the Yankees' Andy Pettitte two years ago when he admitted using
HGH.
"During the mid-'90s, I went on the DL seven times and missed 228
games over five years," McGwire said in the statement. "I experienced
a lot of injuries, including a ribcage strain, a torn left heel
muscle, a stress fracture of the left heel, and a torn right heel
muscle. It was definitely a miserable bunch of years, and I told
myself that steroids could help me recover faster. I thought they
would help me heal and prevent injuries, too."
Since the congressional hearing, baseball owners and players toughened
their drug program twice, increasing the penalty for a first steroids
offense from 10 days to 50 games in November 2005 and strengthening
the power of the independent administrator in April 2008, following
the publication of the Mitchell Report.
"Baseball is really different now - it's been cleaned up," McGwire
said. "The commissioner and the players' association implemented
testing and they cracked down, and I'm glad they did."
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mcgwire-admits-to-steroid-use?GT1=39002
Jesus'sPedoBoy
A chip off the old block.
ng_reader
"Jesus'sPedoBoy" <jism...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b386fab0-6e7d-4b36...@m11g2000vbo.googlegroups.com...
>I saw where Bond's 20-year-old son might be facing felony charges!
>
> A chip off the old block.
>
Uh, Bonds didn't start using 'roids until after a couple of MVP trophies
adorned his mantle.
NewsGroupie
> "Jesus'sPedoBoy" <jismqu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
Let's face it, many people cheat to gain leverage or maintain status.
A sampling of cheating includes taxes, boardroom, politics, and
personal relationships. I'm more concerned on the physical and mental
strain on chidren and adults who view sports figures as role models.
Me, I couln't possibly care less if all took steroids.
Oscar Wilde
MOTHER?
FYI, in Bond's pre-steroids days, if there were any, didn't include 73-
home run seasons. More like one (1) 40-plus HR season!
Y'know, it's crazy how, before Bonds was "caught," hoist by his
perjurious petard, his slaveringly duped fans viciously denied he was
a user. Now, those same fairies "couldn't care less" if Bonds took
'roids!
Such hypocrisy ... like the religionists among us.
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Sports Digest
The Washington Post
January 13, 2010
BASEBALL
THE 20-YEAR-OLD SON of former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds
has pleaded not guilty to five misdemeanor charges related to a fight
with his mother.
Police say Nikolai Bonds threw a doorknob at his mother, 45-year-old
Sun Bonds, and spit in her face during a Dec. 5 confrontation in Menlo
Park, in the San Francisco Bay area. Officers also say he blocked his
mother from leaving, destroyed $400 -- worth of property and
threatened an officer.
Bonds faces charges of battery, false imprisonment, vandalism, making
threats to an officer and obstructing an officer.
Bonds was accompanied by his famous father when he appeared in
court.. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011203342.html
whatitis
> "Jesus'sPedoBoy" <jismqu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
And you know this how....BTW chances are very high that he changed his
regimen from the 90's
whatitis
Latinos in baseball are juiced IMO...Everything single one... geez
look at all the documentaries that have come out.
Based on those docs as a kid 'down there' you would have to be stupid
not to do it...or damn your dreams are gone.
Turban Joe Balasootoe
Outlawing "drugs" is a strikeout every time. It's "less than zero"
in terms of practicality.
Tom
> Whats really said is King Albert being hailed...ALL position player
> Latinos in baseball are juiced IMO...Everything single one...
And you know this how?
>geez
> look at all the documentaries that have come out.
Name one please. A link to its imdb.com page will suffice.
> Based on those docs as a kid 'down there' you would have to be stupid
> not to do it...or damn your dreams are gone.
So, kids who are so poor they have make their ball gloves out of
discarded milk cartons have enough money to buy PEDs?
I'd love to hear your explaination of this anomaly.
Tom