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...Like almost all of the Hall of Fame voters, Ken voted against Mark McGwire-who failed Tuesday to make the cut for Cooperstown, while Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn were elected -because of the steroid use the first baseman pretty much copped to in Congressional testimony. As Ken put it in an email to me, "he broke not only a baseball law (as did Gaylord Perry, for instance) but a federal law." A federal law such as underage drinking at Scott Lustig's house...
...While I?m glad to see that, 17 years later, Ken is still using any excuse to say "Gaylord Perry," I can?t abide his vote. I wrote a bunch of stories for TIME about McGwire in 1998 when he broke the single-season home run record, and I got to spend a little time with him. Yes, he was roughly three people wide, and yes, he had backne and yes, maybe his smile was a little gum-heavy, but I watched McGwire hit a baseball harder than I've ever seen anyone hit one. And since more than...
...vote isn't about McGwire not being great-it's about punishing him for lying and cheating and being a generally bad example to our children. If it really is about cheating, I get that. If a guy cheats, he shouldn't be put on his sport?s Mount Olympus. But I suspect it's not the cheating. It's the fact that he did something immoral. He took drugs...
This one hurt. A sudden, fall-off-the-bike at 40 m.p.h., road rash, legs mangled in the wheel hurt. After Marion Jones, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, aren't we immune to the fact that our beloved athletes might not have achieved immortality on talent alone? Hell, no. Last week came word that Floyd Landis--the fun-loving Mennonite from Pennsylvania, the guy whose Alpine comeback in the Tour de France was dubbed, properly, "The Ride of the Century" (and he did it with a bum hip to boot)--that guy might have cheated...
...Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid us (though he did admit to previously using the legal supplement androstein). Bonds has repeatedly denied knowingly using any performance-enhancing drugs...