Wow. The namesake of one of the ugliest stretches of Interstate 70 in America has been fingered for steroid use.
St. Louis should demand that the Mark McGwire Highway signs come down immediately from that scenic stretch of highway in North St. Louis.
Wait a minute. From what I’ve heard on radio in St. Louis during the last 48 hours, many a St. Louis Cardinals fan says that Jose Canseco is a liar. McGwire has integrity; Canseco can’t spell the word, let alone possess any of it.
Canseco is “jealous,” says McGwire’s former manager, Tony La Russa. McGwire refutes the allegation, yet said he would reserve comment until after Canseco’s book hits the shelves.
My question is: why are a majority of fans ready to call Barry Bonds a liar for allegedly admitting to a federal grand jury that he inadvertently introduced steroid-based substances into his body?
In the meantime, an eyewitness, who allegedly shot steroids into McGwire’s wide load of a behind, is immediately dismissed as a liar.
Here’s another question. If an allegation that inflammatory concerning your actions was coming out in a book, would you wait until millions were sold before you sued? My guess is McGwire has the cash to hire the nation’s best lawyers and have an injunction slapped on Canseco’s publisher before the publication neared a bookstore.
Personally, include me in the group of fans that believes Canseco speaks the truth of the bathroom stall injection.
McGwire’s body went through the same quick, massive distortion as Bonds’, Sammy Sosa’s and Jason Giambi’s.
Yet, there are those ready to defend McGwire at a moment’s notice.
La Russa told the New York Times, “We detailed Mark’s workout routine n six days a week, 12 months a year n and you could see his size and weight gain come through really hard work, a disciplined regimen and the proteins he took n all legal.”
“As opposed to the other guy, Jose, who would play around in the gym for 10 minutes, and all of a sudden he’s bigger than anybody.”
So what is Tony saying here? I read into this that he knew Canseco was on steroids and did nothing about it.
I also know that neither La Russa nor anyone else could monitor McGwire 24-7 during the baseball season.
He wasn’t in the bathroom stall with the two men, so he doesn’t know what n if anything n transpired there.
Canseco also took the bold step of saying that President Bush “had to know” about rampant steroid use on the Texas Rangers when Bush was president of the Texas Rangers.
Canseco is probably incorrect with this assumption, because Bush is a figurehead president, so I’m sure he was a figurehead front-office man, too. The only way Bush would have know about steroid use in the Rangers’ clubhouse was if someone told him about it, and his first question would have been, “What’s a steroid?”
His sudden interest in stamping out steroids that popped up in last year’s State of the Union address was a smokescreen for this very week, by the way. Bush’s people knew this was coming, I’m convinced.
I believe that Canseco shot up McGwire. I believe a staggering number of players were using steroids until two seasons ago.
It’s as simple as that. And I ain’t lying.
