CSI MEDBLOGS: I CALLED MARK MCGWIRE A CHEAT SEVEN YEARS AGO

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Before the blogging era, when I was dashing off letters to the editor -- and whoever else would listen -- I wrote to the Palm Beach Post shortly after Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' single season home run record.

In that letter to the editor, that was published, I stated that McGwire was a cheat, a person whose body was so grossly deformed by steroids that only a FOOL would deny it. 

The evidence was qualitative and quantitative. McGwire admitted to taking androstenedione, a testosterone precursor which Major League Baseball had yet to ban (citing ridiculous claims that it was a suplement and not a steroid). Then there were the images of McGwire as a rookie and as a record-breaker -- impossibly disparate images of a man and a monster.

It was my claim that medically, no man could undergo such a transmogrification.

I still have the hate mail that followed and I clearly remember the aspersions of my colleagues and the total oblivion to which my comments were relegated until I read today's New York Times (subscription): 

Perfect Season to Perfect Storm: Steroids Taint McGwire Legacy

In the course of this winter, the face of steroids has morphed from Jason Giambi to Barry Bonds to McGwire, an uneasy transformation for Major League Baseball and for many of its fans. While Giambi is a star in decline and Bonds was not particularly popular in the first place, McGwire has been regarded as the sport's savior ever since he and Sammy Sosa began their 1998 assault on the single-season home run record that Roger Maris established in 1961.

I was right by a mile.

It took seven years for the press to catch up.

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Any doubts about whether Mark McGwire cheated to attain his home run mark were erased by his appearance before the congressional committee this past week.

It makes me terribly sad.

But it also appears clear what Bud Selig must do: Erase Mr. McGwire's records and impose a lifetime ban that will prevent his entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Obviously, similar sanctions against other players, including those currently active should also be considered.

In past crises, the integrity of the game demanded that Shoeless Joe Jackson and later, Pete Rose be banned from baseball. Similar actions toward players who have used steroids are indicated today.

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