Mark McGwire and the Cardinals

It was a very nice gesture on the part of the Cardinals and specifically lyin’ Tony LaRussa to hire Mark McGwire as the team’s hitting coach for the upcoming year. So, what is McGwire going to teach these guys? Well I suppose he can teach them how to use steroids, how to cheat and get away with it, how deceit is rewarded and how to hide for months should they get caught.

How nice of McGuire to own up to his bad deeds and come out with a highly orchestrated, insincere apology regarding steroid use during the majority of his playing career. Does he really think we’re all idiots? He deceived us for years and now he believes that confession clears him? Are you kidding me?

McGwire isn’t sorry one bit and the only reason he apologized was because he knew he was going to have to face the media in every city once the season began. Had the Cards not hired him, he’d still be hiding. The timing of his announcement at the start of the new baseball season has allowed him to hide behind the frenzy of a new Cardinal season and that’s all there is to it. Has anything ever been so transparent?

What credentials does McGwire bring to his new job? How about a career .263 batting average and that’s for a guy that cheated his whole career. Had he played fair he might have a .243 career batting average. In 1989, with 490 AB’s McGwire hit .239. In 1990, with 523 AB’s he hit .235 and in 1991, with 483 AB’s he hit a puny .201. He then was injured and missed most of ’93 and ’94 and then came back in ’95 and that’s when his career took off.

This guy is the biggest imposter to ever coach or wear a major-league uniform. He was a terrible contact hitter and again, without roids, he was probably going to be a career .230 hitter. This is the guy the St. Louis Cardinals and that drunk, Tony LaRussa hired. Mark McGwire coaching Albert Pujols is equivalent to Tiger Woods teaching Dr. Phil about marriage.

The club hoped McGwire’s hastily arranged six-minute interview with reporters in a remote hotel hallway at the Winter-Warm-Up would serve as McGwire's last such public exposure before going to spring training. Yeah, ok Mark. You’ve fooled us for the last time.

I’ve never liked Tony LaRussa and now he just makes me sick. All the experts are calling for the Cardinals to easily win this division and if we listened to the experts we'd all be broke.