Shock: McGwire Admits That He Used Steroids

TheGame · 01-11-2010, 01:03 PM

I hope the MLB uses this oppertunity too drop the baseball season to under 100 games per year, and just simply invalidates all old records indescriminately and applies much more strict rules for the new era.

If they don't do that, then they might as well make the use of these drugs legal.

Typhoid · 01-11-2010, 02:03 PM

You know what, I still respect him for at least admitting it.
It can't be easy to be a 'famous' sports athlete, and admit you cheated for the best years of your career.
Obviously he's a douche for doing it initially, but at least he manned up.

Unlike Pete Rose, who's never admitted to what he did - as far as I know.

TheSlyMoogle · 01-11-2010, 02:34 PM

Did this really surprise anyone though?

TheGame · 01-11-2010, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

Did this really surprise anyone though?

I'm suprised that he admitted it, and directly for his record breaking year. Most athletes lie and make it seem like they didn't do it in their best years so their records still stand.

I'm not suprised that he took performance enhancing drugs though. I wasn't sure if it was steriods or not, but I knew he was on something. Just like Jeter his first years with New York. He blew up so much, that it's obvious he was on something. Of course he claims he didn't do anything those years though.

The Germanator · 01-11-2010, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

You know what, I still respect him for at least admitting it.
It can't be easy to be a 'famous' sports athlete, and admit you cheated for the best years of your career.
Obviously he's a douche for doing it initially, but at least he manned up.

Unlike Pete Rose, who's never admitted to what he did - as far as I know.

Pete Rose admitted to gambling on baseball a few years ago.

Rose should be in the hall of fame well before McGwire. Rose didn't directly cheat the game while playing as McGwire did.

Yeah, it's good he finally admitted it, but he could have and should have done it years ago. That was an important summer for baseball, and with a lot of things recently it's all BS. I still have no respect for McGwire or A-Rod or Clemens or Bonds or any of the cheaters. I know people say "blame the era" and "it was just part of the game", but I don't buy that. You knew you were cheating and decided to do it.