While it appeared to be a refreshing break on Monday to hear Mark McGwire had confessed to his steroid usage, the more we hear from him, the clearer it is his just doesn't get it. Excuses won't work.
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He still won't acknowledge that he took drugs to enhance his performance. The excuse that he took them to help comeback from injuries just doesn't fly. Look at how his physique changed, and that wasn't just filling out from maturity was it?
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The pissing contest he has entered into with Jose Canseco is comical. Jose Canseco might be a serial liar on some accounts, but he did give us a look behind the curtain that nobody wanted to believe at all when he did. We just realize Canseco is a scum bag. There were no noble motives in his ratting out his profession. It was calculating and self-serving.
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The truth, the whole truth, and a clear statement of what an athlete did was wrong is the only acceptable outcome to involvement in this dark chapter of professional sports. McGwire continues to equivocate and rationalize. That is unacceptable.
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As the week passes, he has done little to look any more authentic than his silly remarks about not wanting to talk about the past when he testified on Capitol Hill. Mark McGwire and dozens more have a long way to go. There will never be a better time than now to set the record straight. The integrity of baseball deserves it.
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