Mark McGwire

It is being reported today that Mark McGwire has finally come clean about his steroid use during his playing days. McGwire has admitted he did use steroids during the 1998 season when he broke Roger Maris' single season home run record.

McGwire is someone I did admire growing up. I was 10 years old when he and Sammy Sosa were in that great home run race. I was always fascinated by home runs and my favorite players were power hitters like Griffey, Tino Martinez, and Jason Giambi,

I believe McGwire needs to take a note from Arod. He needs to sit down at a press conference right when the Cardinals begin spring training, make his statements, apologize, and answer questions leaving nothing to suspect. I believe if he does this the Arod way, he will be forgiven for his mistakes. We are a forgiving society, and I believe if he does this the right way, he too will be forgiven. But he can not stop with just this statement to the AP. He must man up and answer questions at a press conference or do an interview as Pete Rose did.

As far as the consequences that should happen to players who have taken steroids, I wish that they would have some type of asterisk or something similar, but I don't think the records will be taken out of the books. There is no way that MLB will do that, but I do believe that Mark McGwire will not make the Hall of Fame.

UPDATED 5:30 P.M.: Mark McGwire will be on MLB Network at 7:00 tonight doing his first interview since coming clean

UPDATED 7:45 P.M.: In his interview with Bob Costas on MLB Network, Mark McGwire told the world that he never took steroids with the intent to enhance his performance. He also told us that he thought he hit more home runs because his "swing got better" and that he "got more underpin on the ball".......UTTER NONSENSE! It would be rediculous for anyone to believe either of those two statements. For him to say that taking performance enhancing drugs DID NOT in any way help his baseball performance is nonsense. He took one step forward and two steps back with this interview.

Mark McGwire is doing this all for himself, not for his family, his former teammates, or his fans. He is doing all this as a plea for the Hall of Fame.