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The New York Daily News drops a bomb on baseball with more revelations from the FBI. The reporters on the story did an amazing job of documenting things, even providing the exact array of steroids used. These match up with what I've been told again and again are the drugs used in baseball.
With this story, baseball and especially Mark McGwire is going to have to go defensive ahead of the Congressional hearings. I really don't have any idea how either will come out looking good. I also don't have an idea how the public is going to take this. My guess - poorly.
One other thing. Usually I'm not a "but what about the children?" sort, but I do wonder about publishing Big Mac's steroid regimen in the paper. It lent an important air of reality to the piece, but I wonder if come monday morning, high school athletes around the country aren't going to be trolling their local gyms looking for "testosterone cypionate, testosterone enanthate, equipoise and winstrol v" because it worked so well for Macguire.
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