Another Spin Move

by Forrest Lee

He’s a first-year hitting coach, but no hitting coach is as famous or infamous as Mark McGwire. He’s also a tainted steroid user who refused to come out of the closet about his use until he wanted back in baseball. Tony LaRussa and the St. Louis Cardinals were more than happy to oblige. First, he had to confess his sins, cry before a national TV audience to generate sympathy and forgiveness and then all would be right with the world again. Easy.
Just to enhance his new image, McGwire hired former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer as his PR guru. Fleischer, who had plenty of practice misleading the public with the Bush Administration, is already earning his money talking out of the side of his mouth for Big Mac. ”You have to understand, Mark didn’t have to do any of this,” Fleischer said. ”He wasn’t hounded. He could have happily stayed a retired man. Instead, he took all of this upon himself because he wanted to be a coach. He went forward and told everybody what people suspected. But it was still a giant step forward for a player to voluntarily come forward and say, ‘I took steroids.’ I think he deserves a lot of credit for coming forward and saying it.”
Pretty disgusting, huh?
Chicago Sun-Times

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