No I am not talking about Tony LaRussa signing a one year extension with the Cards as Manager. I am talking about Big Mac becoming the hitting Coach! McGwire has been out of the spotlight since his famous Congressional hearing where he was "Not here to talk about the past." Well Mark, the whole basis of the hearing was to get all you roided up freaks to ummmm Talk about the past!
It just goes to show you that any public figure who is held in high regards and is behind a huge scandal can always get there way back into the publics good graces. All you have to do is stay out of limelight for a few years and boom, all is forgiven.
I can't actually say that I despise McGwire for several reasons.
1. Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire had made baseball interesting again and rejuvenated a dying game.
2. I still think he was Innocent. Both him and Slammin Sammy were just taking Flinstone vitamins.
Everyone in Major League Baseball, Owners, Management, Coaches, players, media, and fans can all be blamed for the Steroid era, because the bottom line was it was exciting and put fans in the seats. Now everyone wants to do the right thing and pretend they had no idea what was going on and play dumb. No one in the media asked the tough questions when this was happening, they were too busy covering another monster slam by the Bash Brothers. Did anyone in the Owners box or in MLB front office get suspicious when Sammy Sosa smashed about 25 home runs alone in the month of June one year? Of course not.
Mark McGwire is only a career .263 hitter and is an interesting hitting coach selection...almost seems more of a publicity move. I can picture him kinda being like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite giving advice to young players. "You see that arch out there in, I bet you I can hit a baseball over those arches." Maybe he can have his son still sit in the dugout and run and give him high fives every time a player gets a home run like the old days.
Two more statements on this. The first is that you have the purest, best baseball player in the world in Albert Pujols who to this day has not been really linked with Steroids and PHDs, and now you want to cloud suspicion by bringing in the master of it all.
And second, either the Cubs are going to make a retaliatory move by hiring Sammy Sosa as there newest hitting coach or Mark McGwire may bring him on the Cardinals as an independent Consultant. God knows if Steroids don't work for this team then Sammy can always cork a bat to get the job done. These guys are slime, and the MLB loves it.
Not sure what the Cardinals are thinking here. Also nice to see Acta get another managing job, after his first was with a hopeless franchise that will never win.
ReplyDeleteDifferent sport but along the same lines...Charles Barkley wants to GM a NBA franchise? Please Chuck, don't leave TNT.
ReplyDeleteAnd I really don't get why the Cards are opening up Pujols to be bombarded with questions about roids. If this was NY he'd go insane, hopefully the St. Louis media isn't as ruthless.
If you go to Cooperstown they have a chart with all the home runs both of them hit in that "magical" season. McGwire's home runs are all to left field. At least Sosa sprayed them to left, center and right. Basically anything McGwire put near the barrel of his bat was going to go over the fence. He really has no type of hitting knowledge other than what, knowledge of the strike zone?
Very bizarre.
Yeah its bizarre. Their just asking for a disaster in the lockeroom. Maybe hes been away for 4 years in his lab creating a new steroid that MLB cant test for, and the Cardinals want a piece of it.
ReplyDeleteIf we somehow believe Pujols is perfectly clean, over/under on how many homers he would hit with McGwire's untestable new steroid?
ReplyDeleteI'll set the over/under at 79.5.
Can we truly believe Pujols is clean? The man is an Ox. I hope he is, because if he is found to be dirty, there is officially not one good hitter from this era who did not cheat...outside of Craig Counsell of course.
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