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...although the House Committee on Government Reform stopped short of conjuring up the ghost of Joe McCarthy in an attempt to scare Mark McGwire into admitting his once-legendary bat speed was fueled with THG and HGH, the theater—or hearing, to be official—was imbued with a sufficient sense of the surreal to make any rational baseball fan question what good could reasonably come from such staged drama...
...wake of the testimony given last Thursday on steroids in Major League Baseball, accusations of cheating and betraying the popular trust are being continuously flung at a handful of muscled targets. The iconic figures of the sport’s recent post-strike resurgence—McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa, among others—have fallen under the shadow of a suspicion that threatens to destroy their reputations and place a more permanent and shameful asterisk than the one that was applied to Maris’ 61 next to the bloated offensive records of the last 10 years...
Everyone can agree that steroid use needs to be eliminated. But all those who watched the hearings could not help but feel a pang of sympathy for McGwire, who after his painful testimony has gone from a loved, classy hero to Public Enemy Number One. The former Home Run King has been called a cheater, even though he was well within his rights in denying answering questions about steroid use. If indeed McGwire juiced up, critics should consider the lack of a ban before 2002, as well as the highly ambiguous and unproven effects of steroids on actual performance, before...
...here to discuss the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject." MARK MCGWIRE, record-setting former baseball slugger, repeatedly refusing to answer questions about whether he ever used steroids, at a U.S. House committee hearing...
...hearings may help clean up baseball, but they have stained McGwire's legacy. His lawyer-crafted responses to the inquisition--"I'm not here to talk about the past," "I'm here to talk about the positive," "I don't know, I'm a retired player"--drew chuckles from the gallery. A Missouri lawmaker suggested stripping the name from the Mark McGwire Highway in St. Louis. "He's a tragic figure," says Vincent. "I feel sorry for McGwire; he was put in an impossible position. On the other hand, he did a stupid thing, and in this life, when...