The Mark McGwire Steroid Exhibit. Showing at Madame Tussauds next month!!

Over the past week, more sports news was released, that to me, was not really shocking news. Mark McGwire took steroids, and he didn’t just do them, he did them a lot. I mean, he dug them. So it’s official- if you have tree trunks for arms and you are over the age of 30, hitting home runs with no effort… there is a chance you are juicing.

The real part of this story that needs to be addressed is that Roger Marris needs his record re-established in some capacity. If you do not know this, Marris holds the single season record of home runs at 61, that he established in 1961. During the ‘98 season, McGwire and Sammy Sosa broke his record, with McGwire establishing the new record at 70.

A few seasons later, Barry Bonds broke that record at 73. With McGwire out of the steroid closet, and with Sosa sure to follow, and Bonds most likely going to prison for lying to congress, the use of the asterisk surely must come into place.

The main reason McGwire came out is mostly because he wants to get into the Hall Of Fame.  The only way McGwire will get into the hall is if the hall decides to open a steroid section. I can imagine it now, with big plastic syringes and an arm the size of the blue whale at the Museum of Natural History. I would love Madame Tussuad’s wax figures of Sosa and McGwire, from their rookie years and their last years of baseball, to show the differences in their bodies… thanks to the wonderful enhancements.

I wonder if their dealers would be eligible for induction into the Hall Of Fame as well?

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I remember it like it was yesterday, watching both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chase Roger Maris’s single season home run record in 1998.

The coverage got to the point that local games would be interrupted so we could see either of them at bat. It was thrilling, it was dramatic, and it was everything that baseball needed after the player’s lockout ended the 94 season early.

11 years later, both players are swimming in a pool of steroid allegations, and neither of them have a chance at the baseball hall of fame. Now, Sammy Sosa is trying a new approach, he wants to be white. Yes, I said it- he wants to me WHITE!

Have a look for yourself, from his rookie year to last year, the man is fading at a faster rate than Michael Jackson. He claims it is “some cream.” Even basketball’s great Charles Barkley chimed in on the controversy asking why is Sosa thinking he has to be white to get into the hall of fame. It’s funny, looking at the fiasco here. Sammy actually still wants to play baseball, but I think the only team that might have any interest in him now would be the German female softball team.

"I wanna be like Mike!"

I honestly can’t wait for this steroid era to end. I wonder if A-Rod is going to start to fade as well. I wonder if Kate Hudson will even care? I hope Roger Clemens does hard time for telling people with a strait face that his steroids were his wife’s.

Sammy Sosa is the latest example of how all involved are getting their just desserts, and I hope there are enough spoons going around for everyone to get their fill. Now all Sammy needs are kids sleeping in his bed, dangle some babies, start begging for hardcore sleep medicines, and then people will overlook this whole bleaching thing.

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