Finally!

As of yesterday afternoon around 3, notorious slugger Mark McGwire admitted in a tear-filled interview to the use of performance enhancing drugs during his MLB career. We all know he did it, it just came down to when he was going to come clean (no pun intended) and acknowledge it. According to McGwire, the reason he used HGH and steroids was to recover from injury faster, "I did this for health purposes. There's no way I did this for any type of strength use." McGwire claims he was given a gift to hit a baseball, and the fact that he used these drugs did not assist him in smashing all those home runs.

Tony LaRussa McGwire's manager during most of his MLB career reaffirms McGwire's claims, stating that he is one of the hardest working guys in baseball and still is. LaRussa and the Cardinals opened their arms to the ex-hero of St. Louis in October, putting them on his staff as hitting coach replacing Hal McRae. This was an obvious cry for help from McGwire to baseball. After hired we all played the waiting game, it was just a matter of time until he admitted his wrong doing and we got on with our lives. For those of you that see McGwire as a talentless hack who cheated his way to the top, go try and hit a 95 MPH fastball over 350 feet, then and only then can you complain.

Random thought: Maybe Pete Rose should give Mark McGwire's PR agent a call.