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Posted by: Pinstriped Bible on Jan 13, 2010 at 01:56:55 PM

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While I normally agree with you Steve, this time I just cannot. It is not because I am opposed to steroid users or consider myself "holier than thou". It is also not because of Mark McGwire's numbers. My objection is because by his own admission, McGwire took steroids to get on the field because of all his injuries. It is my contention that without the steroids, McGwire could not have played as much as he did (proven by his own history) and therefore would not have been able to put up the numbers that he did. If take the big years at the end of his career( when he admits to steroid use) and cut half of those seasons out for the injuries he always had prior to steroid use his numbers don't come up to hall consideration. His own prior history shows that this not unreasonable.

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Posted by: Pinstriped Bible on Jan 11, 2010 at 05:15:36 PM

Mark McGwire, one of the great sluggers of the last 20 years, has finally come clean. We all knew the truth, of course, but it helps to hear it directly from the man himself. Yes, in 1998, the season in which McGwire hit 70 home runs, he actively practiced witchcraft ... and some other things.

“Eye of newt, tongue of frog, and all that stuff,” McGwire confessed tearfully before being burned at the stake in Salem, Massachusetts. “Swore allegiance to the infernal Prince of Darkness, parties in the woods shrouded in the corpse of a gutted mer-mastodon, the whole deal, everything you’ve heard about. Also, my bat was sort of corked in that it wasn’t a bat at all; the trickster-god Loki had given me Thor’s hammer Mjöllnir cleverly disguised as a Louisville

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