Connecting The Dots On Big Mac’s Big Apology

People don’t care much about the details. Right?

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Compared to [Jason Giambi’s, Alex Rodriguez’s and Manny Ramirez’s] confessions, this man came off as way more real, way more sympathetic, way less scripted and way more regretful than the three of them combined.

I wouldn’t say I’m totally clear on what he regretted. But at least I was 100 percent convinced that he sincerely regretted it—whatever it was.

And the fact is, history tells us that’s usually all America asks.

The tears, the sniffles, the pain—Mark McGwire laid them all out there in front of the nation.

The actual words—aw, nobody listens to them real closely, anyway.

So should he have said it better, connected those dots, acknowledged the damage he’s inflicted on his sport? I wish he had.

Jayson Stark
McGwire said enough to be believable (2010, )