Man… not a good day for Mark McGwire. How bad does he look right now? Is there anyone out there who believes that he hasn’t had a few syringes in his ass? Anyone? Anyone at all?

Being on the brink of tears while reading an innocuous opening statement was a pretty rough start. If he doesn’t have something on his conscience, I don’t know why he’s crying at that point. The man was just hurting… I almost felt bad for him. And then when the questions started coming, and he wouldn’t answer… that just doesn’t look good.

And I don’t buy his argument that if he says he didn’t do steroids, no one believes, and if he says yes, he risks public scorn. Y’know, Rafael Palmiero looks pretty good right now. I think most people are of the opinion that Raffy is clean. I think most people are now of the opinion that Mark McGwire has been shot up like a heifer on a Burger King farm.

On one hand, I didn’t kinda want to see McGwire be exposed. A little bit of schadenfreude on my part. Hey, I never said I was a good person. But if Barry Bonds is going to be raked over the coals, McGwire probably deserved it, too. But now that it’s happening, I kinda feel for the guy. Even though he did the ‘roids, he did work hard, I think his accomplishments meant something to him, I think it meant something to him to help restore baseball’s image… and all of that, in one day, is pretty much shot to hell.

When he sees the tape of himself hitting his home run, and picking his kid up, that’s probably not going to be a happy memory anymore. That should be beautiful. But if his name gets dragged through the mud, if his records are stricken, if the public turns on him… he’ll probably never want to see it again.

Would he deserve that? Maybe. I dunno. That’s not for me to say, but… I know I wouldn’t wish that feeling on many people.