Unforgiven...Thus far

I've got some thoughts and motives behind McGwire's Apology.

            First: Why did it take so long? Sorry Big Mac, everyone knew you were guilty in that courtroom, and “I don’t want to talk about the past” is clearly incriminating. Rafael Palmeiro straight-up lied in that same courtroom, and got booed out of baseball when he came back guilty. Dude had to wear earplugs to home games because of all the boos. So why did you wait?

            Fans want to forgive, but they want an admission and apology first. It’s hard to remember who has admittedly done steroids, but we can’t forget who is under speculation. Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, David Ortiz to name a few. Check out this list:

http://www.baseballssteroidera.com/bse-list-steroid-hgh-users-baseball.html

How many under “admitted” are really in trouble right now? Add to that Pettitte, Brian Roberts who both apologized, got no suspensions, and continue to play without much mention of that stuff.

            

Maybe Mcgwire saw these apologetic guys getting forgiven, and non-confessed players still on everyone’s shit list. Maybe he wanted off said shit-list and wanted forgiveness? My guess is...

Who’s to say he didn’t wait out two voting periods to the Hall of Fame before realizing he won’t have a shot without a confession? Eventually the vote comes down to the writers, so he came clean a few days after getting snubbed a second time, (thinking) hopefully they will have fully forgiven him enough to vote him in come 2011. Maybe he thought non-admission would be good enough for them to vote him in 2 years ago. Now that he's tried that, he'll try the apologetic angle. Personally, I think it's crazy that he's not in yet. Pete Rose too. Why? Because Ty Cobb is in. I don't care that he's a legend. He is probably top 10 meanest people to live pre-1950. Check this (from themorningnews.org) "A racist, a bigot, and a thug, Cobb slept with a loaded revolver beneath his pillow in case his teammates tried to beat him up in the night. He took his anger out on the game: hitting, running, and fielding like no one before. Even in that early, anarchistic era of sharpened cleats and raging mobs in the bleachers, Cobb was the supreme force of anarchy. Once, after being heckled by a fan, Cobb leapt into the stands and pummeled the man, who was later revealed to have been missing most of his fingers from an industrial accident. Off the diamond Cobb wasn’t much better: He routinely punched or knocked down passing blacks on the streets and once, during an altercation in a Cleveland hotel, Cobb slashed the black night manager with a knife."