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Hall of Shame: Big Mac's a Martyr for the Steroid Era
[SIZE=-1]Riverfront Times, MO [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]We all know why McGwire isn't in the Hall of Fame. It begins and ends with the steroids. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Big Mac does still have some friends in the game, of course; Tony La Russa just recently spoke to the New York Times about his friend's Hall of Fame case. (Thanks to my colleague Chad Garrison for the heads-up on the article.) Both Skip Schumaker and Chris Duncan have spoken at great length about how much training with McGwire has helped them. (Swing training only; I know what you're thinking.) The man is clearly still respected by plenty of baseball people. Is it fair that he is so thoroughly ignored by the Hall? [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]What is kind of sad in all of this is that McGwire is being set up as the sacrifice for the steroid era. So many of the other heroes from that time have simply fallen off the map; only Bighead Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and McGwire are still mentioned regularly. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Clemens would probably be okay if he would have just shut up and gone away; now he has permanently damaged his reputation and legacy far worse than ever could have been done without his participation. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]McGwire has disappeared from public life, yet he is still the man who stuttered "Steroids is, is bad," in front of Congress and refused to just tell us all that he was wrong, that they were all wrong, that the whole era was wrong. ...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Riverfront Times, MO [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]We all know why McGwire isn't in the Hall of Fame. It begins and ends with the steroids. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Big Mac does still have some friends in the game, of course; Tony La Russa just recently spoke to the New York Times about his friend's Hall of Fame case. (Thanks to my colleague Chad Garrison for the heads-up on the article.) Both Skip Schumaker and Chris Duncan have spoken at great length about how much training with McGwire has helped them. (Swing training only; I know what you're thinking.) The man is clearly still respected by plenty of baseball people. Is it fair that he is so thoroughly ignored by the Hall? [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]What is kind of sad in all of this is that McGwire is being set up as the sacrifice for the steroid era. So many of the other heroes from that time have simply fallen off the map; only Bighead Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and McGwire are still mentioned regularly. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Clemens would probably be okay if he would have just shut up and gone away; now he has permanently damaged his reputation and legacy far worse than ever could have been done without his participation. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]McGwire has disappeared from public life, yet he is still the man who stuttered "Steroids is, is bad," in front of Congress and refused to just tell us all that he was wrong, that they were all wrong, that the whole era was wrong. ...[/SIZE]
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