“The only reason I took steroids was for health purposes.”– Mark McGwire.

Really?

Wow Mark,  because all these years that I looked at your ginormous head and biceps, I thought you told us you DIDN’T do steroids?  Okay, you feared persecution and “didn’t want to talk about the past.”  But now that you finally come clean, you tell us you only took them for your health.

I guess I should let you in on a “secret.”  I didn’t want to say anything, but i KNEW you took them all these years.  But I THOUGHT you were taking them so you could shrink your testes,  develop “backne,”  liver failure, baldness and extreme violent irritability.  Turns out you were taking them for your “health.”

McGwire is another in a line of celebrities to ask for forgiveness for breaking rules.  He’s also another in a line  of celebrities to do it really, really poorly.  The Native American’s did not approve of having their image captured on film.  They feared the act would steal their soul.  I think there’s something to that, because the greater the celebrity,(more film) the more vapid and less contrite these apologies seem to get.

So Mark McGwire wants us to forgive and re-accept him because he needed steroids for his “health.”  Mark McGwire dererves to wind out his days in celebrity anoynimty like Shoeless Joe Jackson.  If he wants to coach?  Let him coach in some Venezuelan league or overseas, without spotlight.  McGwire doesn’t care about baseball, he cares about celebrity.  He deserves one, but not the other.