I'm talking about motherfuckers like Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports : Well, of course he did. And now that he wants something – a job, a reasonably nonbelligerent working environment, peace of mind, forgiveness, I suppose – Mark McGwire has come a little closer to the truth. He and his handlers typed out a statement, sent it along to the Associated Press and, presumably, put their hands over their ears. He later sat for an interview with Bob Costas and was inarguably contrite. Turns out, he had a damned good reason not to talk about the past, but we knew that, and he knew we knew, so what exactly do we have today, the day McGwire simply confirmed that so many of those home runs were manufactured not in a batting cage, but in a lab (and not in a bathroom stall)? For one, we have a man so used to hiding and lying that, years after cheating a nation of baseball fans, he feels sorry for … himself. “Looking back,” he wrote, “I wish I had never played during the steroid era.” Really. This com...
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