So what should we do now, people? Forgive him, embrace him with a collective hug and point him directly to the Hall of Fame? What Mark McGwire admitted Monday should have been said with no filters and all exclamation points back in March 2005, inside Room 2154 of the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill, where he had an opportunity to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth at a monumental Congressional hearing.Instead, he just perpetuated his long-running lie about steroids and lost his reputation and credibility forever.
"Are you taking the Fifth?'' he was asked by Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland.
"I'm not here to discuss the past," said McGwire, in the ill-fated statement that will define him forever. "I'm here to be positive about this subject.''
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