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Baseball will survive this scourge: McGwire goes to bat against the truth--and whiffs.
If only someone had fallen on the grenade ...
Given himself up for dead ...
Taken one for the team ...
If only one guy had the guts to say, "Yeah, I took steroids. Didn't everybody?"
It would have been great if Mark McGwire had said it.
If only he had said, "Bought 'em legally. Don't ask how. Not naming dealers or doctors here. But anybody can get 'em. Used 'em after Jose showed me they worked. Caminiti said, what, 50 percent of players used? Sounds about right to me. Pitchers, too. I figured, 'Pitchers using, I'm using. It's a level playing field.' "
If only he had said, "And, yeah, the more l learned, the more I got scared by 'em. And I knew about Ben Johnson and all the Olympic rules on steroids. Sure. Flo-Jo died in her bed the year Sammy and I had our run. I knew that. And the football players. Poor Alzado.