Steroids

[Bothwell]

As I have said before I am a bit of an oddity, a Brit baseball fan, as such I was glued to FOX last night to watch the hearings on steroid use, wow.

Mark McGuire !!!!!!!

I dont see very much baseball over here and no indepth coverage just game highlights so I had not seen his change in physique until Fox put up a picture taken when he was last playing. the difference was startling.

First offhe gets up there in tears and stating how much he wants to help the kids, the he takes the 5th, even when directly questioned as to whether he had taken steroids he refused to answer.

Would you like someone to lecture kids whose answers could be construed to be less than frank!! help me out here what did he have to lose ? He has retired has he not, he is probably not poor so why could he not strike a blow for decency and just flat out say what he had done.

Whether true or not Sosa, Schilling et al have denied steroid use.

Something else I did not understand, some of the talking heads on Fox were saying that congress should not be allowed to do this because baseball is protected by the "Anti Trust" laws, what is this?

Anyway in conclusion I was absolutely transfixed for hours and I would guess Mr Maguire's pr people have a little damage limitation to do.

[Paula]

Kill the b****rds who provide this animal juice. It is out of control, it is everywhere. Find them. :yh_beatup

[Bothwell]

No I did not get a chance to see the others, it was already 3.0am here when I finished watching not so big Mac finish his whitewash, I was also impressed by Palmerio and his no nonsense stance.

Unfortunately we get very little coverage here but I will keep watching, and cheering the White Sox on

Thankyou for the anti trust info, interesting reading.

[RedSoxFan]

Big Mac was eaten up by congress and is now a Jr. Bacon CB from Wendys! If you get on:

www.espn.com

You can read about what was said when Selig and his MLB "people" were questioned about and how they did too.

[Porpoise]

I saw parts of the hearing and you know what? Honestly Mark should have just gone out and admitted it in front of Congress because everybody knew he used to take muscle enhancing steriod stuff. A few years ago, he admitted that he stopped taking Creatin. And you know what, a lot of people have forgotten about it. I think a lot of people would have eventually forgiven him if he had admitted it. The angry first reaction would have died down after awhile. He made things a lot worse. Sosa did too by "forgetting" that he spoke English. He convieniently had to use a translator when all of the "important" questions came up. It's a shame that they have to lie. Then again they are big shot celebrities that think they can get away with everything. Well, they are wrong.