In a statement released today, Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids when he broke the home run record in 1998, according to ESPN:
“I wish I had never touched steroids,” McGwire said in a statement. “It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.”
“I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come,” McGwire said. “It’s time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected.”
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Mark McGwire’s Statement to the Associated Press:
“Now that I have become the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, I have the chance to do something that I wish I was able to do five years ago.
I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come. It’s time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected. I used steroids during my playing career and I apologize. I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989/1990 off season and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again. I used them on occasion throughout the ’90s, including during the 1998 season.
I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.
During the mid-’90s, I went on the DL seven times and missed 228 games over five years. I experienced a lot of injuries, including a ribcage strain, a torn left heel muscle, a stress fracture of the left heel, and a torn right heel muscle. It was definitely a miserable bunch of years and I told myself that steroids could help me recover faster. I thought they would help me heal and prevent injuries, too.
I’m sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids. I had good years when I didn’t take any and I had bad years when I didn’t take any. I had good years when I took steroids and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn’t have done it and for that I’m truly sorry.
Baseball is really different now — it’s been cleaned up. The commissioner and the players’ association implemented testing and they cracked down, and I’m glad they did.
I’m grateful to the Cardinals for bringing me back to baseball. I want to say thank you to Cardinals owner Mr. DeWitt, to my GM, John Mozeliak, and to my manager, Tony La Russa. I can’t wait to put the uniform on again and to be back on the field in front of the great fans in Saint Louis. I’ve always appreciated their support and I intend to earn it again, this time as hitting coach. I’m going to pour myself into this job and do everything I can to help the Cardinals hitters become the best players for years to come.
After all this time, I want to come clean. I was not in a position to do that five years ago in my congressional testimony, but now I feel an obligation to discuss this and to answer questions about it. I’ll do that, and then I just want to help my team.”
Taz | January 11, 2010 at 3:43 pm
about time
Pseudopodia | January 11, 2010 at 3:45 pm
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LOLWUT | January 11, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Wait WHAT?!?!
I call 'em as I see 'em | January 11, 2010 at 3:50 pm
No surprise.
My question is: Are there any baseball players who are NOT on steroids?
Now, that would be a surprise…
stupidass | January 11, 2010 at 3:52 pm
first i hear that john ritter died, now this?!
i don’t know how much more i can take today.
havoc | January 11, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Steroids are good. You should take as much as you can.
Children too….
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Randal | January 11, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Mark, what a horrible role model you’ve become, not only to kids who dreamed of being like you but as an image for America as a whole. Sums it up pretty nicely.
Randal
hollywood gossip | January 11, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I agree with agoc.
Crusty | January 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm
McGwire said “Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.”…
Buddy, you didn’t just play in the steroid era! You’re a major REASON it was the steroid era.
He ponied up, which is nice, seeing how MLB wouldn’t let him be the hitting coach for the Cardinals until he came clean.
Sorry mark – you can be a hitting coach and all that but your chance of being in the Hall of Fame disappeared the second you refused to admit your guilt when you testified before Congress.
Cbus | January 11, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Oh well he made his millions
Gil64 | January 11, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Tomorrow Richard Simmons will say he is homosexual
Urbanspaceman | January 11, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Too little, too late Mark. No Hall of Fame for you. Deal with it.
Rachel | January 11, 2010 at 4:26 pm
It’s cute when you butch up and post a story for your heterosexual male audience. I hope the three of them appreciate this.
Pete Loaf | January 11, 2010 at 4:30 pm
So Pete Rose gets into the Hall of Fame now, right?
goober | January 11, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Well someone is sad only getting 23% of the HoF votes again… Sorry Mark, anyone with self-respect STILL wont vote for you
katie | January 11, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I appreciate that he loves the game of baseball and the St. Louis fans enough to come back and coach knowing that he will have to endure these criticisms. The steroids were no surprise, but we cannot deny the fact that his 98 season saved baseball. Baseball was still in a lull and people were still pissed off about that strike. No one was watching. That home run race had people glued to their televisions all over the world.
katie | January 11, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I appreciate that he loves the game of baseball and the St. Louis fans enough to come back and coach knowing that he will have to endure these criticisms. The steroids were no surprise, but we cannot deny the fact that his 98 season saved baseball. Baseball was still in a lull and people were still pissed off about that strike. No one was watching. That home run race had people glued to their televisions all over the world.
me again | January 11, 2010 at 6:12 pm
another fraud….too bad there seems to be no real heroes for kids to look up to today. I have no respect for this jerk.
Superbiggerevil | January 11, 2010 at 6:26 pm
@11 – Aw c’mon dude, that shit ain’t even funny!
Eastsideodee | January 11, 2010 at 7:14 pm
@16 (&17) -Well said, we supported the steroid era by voting with our wallets! Whatever we want to say now, we all saw everyone’s numbers and it was obvious something fishy was going on . McGuire and the rest of ‘em were just responding to what we wanted, and what got them paid!!!
Everyone knows that way back when, players used speed and that pitchers have always doctored baseballs. What’s so different about this? Still i think he should be out of HoFconsideration.
Eastsideodee | January 11, 2010 at 7:16 pm
@16 (&17) -Well said, we supported the steroid era by voting with our wallets! Whatever we want to say now, we all saw everyone’s numbers and it was obvious something fishy was going on . McGuire and the rest of ‘em were just responding to what we wanted, and what got them paid!!!
Everyone knows that way back when, players used speed and that pitchers have always doctored baseballs. What’s so different about this? Still i think he should be out of HoFconsideration.
Eastsideodee | January 11, 2010 at 7:16 pm
@16 (&17) -Well said, we supported the steroid era by voting with our wallets! Whatever we want to say now, we all saw everyone’s numbers and it was obvious something fishy was going on . McGuire and the rest of ‘em were just responding to what we wanted, and what got them paid!!!
Everyone knows that way back when, players used speed and that pitchers have always doctored baseballs. What’s so different about this? Still i think he should be out of HoFconsideration.
NFL Draft | January 11, 2010 at 7:55 pm
@11,that’s funny
Painting the kettle pink | January 11, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Notice how the queer Randal picks on an athlete who took steroids like all baseball players were doing in that era but will defend the sorriest mother fucking actor or singer? Because they are part of his “industry” as he calls it.
Asshole.
Max | January 11, 2010 at 8:58 pm
@13:
I do.
Rag | January 11, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Notice how he still claims the steroids had nothing to do with his homeruns. This from a career .235 hitter.
Rag | January 11, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Notice how he still claims the steroids had nothing to do with his homeruns. This from a career .235 hitter.
dawson | January 11, 2010 at 9:57 pm
#2 Shortest entertaining response I have ever seen.
Watermellon Hole | January 11, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Richard Simmons is not gay.
Che What | January 11, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Hope his joints fall apart soon…loser.
d'oh | January 11, 2010 at 11:09 pm
#11 made me shoot coffee through my nose…
Gov. Schwarzenegger | January 11, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Randal,
Do the right thing and come clean about your steroid abuse.
Think of the children.
R4i ?? | January 12, 2010 at 12:13 am
In a quavering voice, McGwire apologized and said he used steroids and human growth hormone on and off for a decade, starting before the 1990 season and including the year he broke Roger Maris’ single-season home run record in 1998.
“I wish I had never touched steroids,” McGwire said. “It was foolish and it was a mistake.”
Dr. Cornelia J. Dogbarker PhD | January 12, 2010 at 12:49 am
Cheater. Liar. Loser. Asshole.
What now? | January 12, 2010 at 6:24 am
So does this mean that congress can have his ass arrested or perjury since he apparently wasn’t in a position to admit that he did what he told congress he didn’t do under oath? Thanks for all the fake homers, McGuire and Sammy. Oh yeah, if Richard Simmons isn’t gay, then Mark McGuire never took steroids!
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guacho | January 12, 2010 at 10:09 am
@13
i wonder who all the naked chicks and bikini pics are for?
HuckyDucky | January 12, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Randal,
Get fucked. If you had one inkling of what this man has done for sexually and physically abused children in his life, you wouldn’t say such ignorant things. Please stick to your uber-queer sycophant observations.
HuckyDucky | January 12, 2010 at 1:12 pm
@35,
Yeah, go get’em, Congress. You’re pathetic. He didn’t lie to those evil crooks. He refused to discuss it.
chrisby | January 12, 2010 at 4:50 pm
@39
Right!!! He never lied to Congress people… no crime. And when you are Prescribed steroids by a Doctor for lets say an “injury”, then you still have committed no crime
santa clause morrow | January 12, 2010 at 11:48 pm
for all that says he did not lie you are right he just refused to answer in which case he should of been arested for interferance into a judical matter a man not willing to talk about his past when it is going to ruin his career does not need in the HOF he needs to be PIJ = PUT IN JAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=942HcHKbOno
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Loser.
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