The baseball world takes another blow as yet one more of its big name hitters drops the steroid bomb. Mark Mcgwire Played for the St. Louis Cardinals, and is the former record holder for most home runs in a season. If you watched baseball in early 2000′s than you would remember the race between Chicago’s Sammy Sosa and Mark g as they swept by the former record held by Babe Ruth.
Mcgwire is always passed over when it comes to the Hall of Fame just off the suspision of steroid use. Because of Players like Jose Conseco being so public with his use and dropping the dime on many others, everyone who has bulked up is suspect. One obvious example is Barry Bonds, the current home run in a season record holder. If you look at a picture from his rookie year and now, the growth of his head alone should be an admission of guilt.
With all this being said. Mark Mcgwire Went public with his use of steroids last week. I don’t know why so many acted shocked with this news. I felt like we all already knew. When Mcgwire made a speech in front of his fans in St. Louis he said that he couldn’t take the weight of holding that secret in and needed to get it off his chest. The question is what should this mean for his statistics in the record books. There’s so many of these cases popping up, that it looks like they’ll just stay as is. As far as the Hall of fame goes, it looks like he’ll be on the list of integrity violators with guys like Pete Rose. I think it is what it is. If they made the sacrifice to put themselves at risk to up the level of there game, let it be.
