{"id":1931,"date":"2010-01-12T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/12\/mcgwire-sings-does-anyone-care\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:37:00","slug":"mcgwire-sings-does-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/12\/mcgwire-sings-does-anyone-care\/","title":{"rendered":"McGwire sings.  Does anyone care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u2019s sudden revelation from Mark McGwire that he actually used, dare we say it, performance enhancing drugs, steroids, human growth hormones, and Pepsi, is enough to make me yawn.<\/p>\n<p>Who cares?  It didn\u2019t take anyone with any great sense of intelligence to realize that McGwire was juiced up on something.  At the time, there may have been whispers; everyone turned a blind all because supposedly chicks liked it when Mark went long.<\/p>\n<p>Now we care.  As a society we are just a bunch of losers with double standards.  God forbid that someone cheated.  Now what?  Where to from here?<\/p>\n<p>There is an interesting <a href=\" http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sportsnation\/polls?pCat=46&sCat=966\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN poll<\/a> that raises some of these types of questions \u2013 Hall or no Hall?  Asterisk next to McGwire\u2019s records?<\/p>\n<p>So why do we care?  We care because baseball\u2019s records are a sacred cow \u2013 almost holy in a non blasphemous sort of way.  Because of McGwire and others during the steroid era, we have no idea which records are legitimate and which ones are frauds.  In the mid to late nineties, baseball fans were desperate for some good news \u2013 McGwire\u2019s epic homerun launches and the great homerun chase of 1998 with Sammy \u201c<em>I never used steroids<\/em>\u201d Sosa delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Like a bad night of drinking, we now regret our enthusiasm.  We all unknowingly slept with the enemy.  There seems to be no way to go back in time and wash it all away; make it as if it never happened.  How do you put an asterisk next to some of the players, without having a complete list of everyone that indulged in a little self gratification in the name of health?  After all, according to McGwire and others that have come clean, they never took any happy juice in the name of cheating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u2019s sudden revelation from Mark McGwire that he actually used, dare we say it, performance enhancing drugs, steroids, human growth hormones, and Pepsi, is enough to make me yawn. Who cares? It didn\u2019t take anyone with any great sense of intelligence to realize that McGwire was juiced up on something. At the time, there may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/12\/mcgwire-sings-does-anyone-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McGwire sings.  Does anyone care?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}