Adolphus A. Busch IV who is the great-great-grandson of the founder of Anheuser-Busch has recently issued a statement on Mark McGwire's return.
Here are some excerpts:
"I suspect I am not alone in my disappointment at Mr. McGwire's recent 'clarification' on his use of illegal steroids."
"But has no one noticed? McGwire is not apologizing for his deceit, only for the embarrassment that came from his admission of having previously lied. The timing of his announcement at the start of a new baseball season has allowed him to hide behind the frenzy of a new Cardinal season and the blinding faith of Cardinal loyalists."
"Mark McGwire chose to take performance-enhancing drugs 9 of his 18 years in professional baseball. He was paid millions while perpetuating a fraud."
"McGwire has chosen to come out of the closet at the perfect time - alongside a manager who also refuses to be honest, to the fans or to the game itself. After all, why would Tony LaRussa hire a batting coach whose lifetime batting average was only .263?"
There is more but ouch!
Adolphus, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
Ok, first practically every sports columnist in America, then Whitey Herzog, then Jack Clark, then Carlton Fisk, then Ferguson Jenkins and now Adolphus A. Busch IV who I guess is probably close to royalty in St. Louis.
Memo to Mark McGwire:
You are not very popular right now. I know you received a nice ovation from the fans at the Cardinals Winter Warmup but I think most of those people were just hoping for an autograph.
You know what you should do?
Put a "stop pay" on that check you made out to the public relations firm you used for that written "confession" statement and also for the assistance in prepping you for those interviews which haven't gone so well.
Let them sue you for payment.
Fight them in court over it.
They blew it.
So did you.
Don't pay!
2 comments:
I just can't see McGwire lasting through 2010 as the Card's batting coach. He is a major distraction, he is a public fraud, he is an unreptentent, arrogant, delusional liar.
Add to all of this that pre-roids he was generally .240 hitter who swung for the fences.
Then amazingly, he attributed his increased production not to copious drugs called "Performance Enhancing", but instead to his sudden ability to understand the craft of the swing.
This jackhole brain is going to teach others how to hit?
McGwire is a much bigger jerk than Canseco or Bonds. Sometimes the delusion is greater than the crime.
FOC,
That thought occurred to me but McGwire is LaRussa's boy and they are joined at the hip. LaRussa can be stubborn and I think he may more likely just say "screw you all" and keep him out of spite.
It is hard to make Bonds a sympathetic figure but the story goes that he only turned to steroids when he saw McGwire and Sosa manipulating the system and getting the accolades that he as a greatly superior hitter was not.
I commented months ago that steroids aside, I do not see how McGwire could be a good choice for a hitting coach. When did he ever hit behind a runner? When did he ever shorten his swing with two strikes? When did he ever "go with the pitch"? He could hit it a mile but so what? I could go on and on.
Kevin
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