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January 11, 2010

Mark McGwire Steroids Statement

You can get this 5,000 places but I’d feel weird if I didn’t have it here too. I am not the least bit surprised, and I’ve said many times – you knew, you knew, you knew. By you I mean YOU, the person who cheered in 1998 and now doesn’t want him in the Hall.

Mark McGwire:

Now that I have become the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, I have the chance to do something that I wish I was able to do five years ago.

I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come. Itâ€™s time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected. I used steroids during my playing career and I apologize. I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989/1990 off season and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again. I used them on occasion throughout the nineties, including during the 1998 season.

I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.

During the mid-90s, I went on the DL seven times and missed 228 games over five years. I experienced a lot of injuries, including a rib cage strain, a torn left heel muscle, a stress fracture of the left heel, and a torn right heel muscle. It was definitely a miserable bunch of years and I told myself that steroids could help me recover faster. I thought they would help me heal and prevent injuries too.

Iâ€™m sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids. I had good years when I didnâ€™t take any and I had bad years when I didnâ€™t take any. I had good years when I took steroids and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldnâ€™t have done it and for that Iâ€™m truly sorry.

Baseball is really different now â€“ itâ€™s been cleaned up. The Commissioner and the Players Association implemented testing and they cracked down, and Iâ€™m glad they did.

Iâ€™m grateful to the Cardinals for bringing me back to baseball. I want to say thank you to Cardinals owner Mr. DeWitt, to my GM, John Mozeliak, and to my manager, Tony La Russa. I canâ€™t wait to put the uniform on again and to be back on the field in front of the great fans in Saint Louis.

Iâ€™ve always appreciated their support and I intend to earn it again, this time as hitting coach. Iâ€™m going to pour myself into this job and do everything I can to help the Cardinals hitters become the best players for years to come.

After all this time, I want to come clean. I was not in a position to do that five years ago in my Congressional testimony, but now I feel an obligation to discuss this and to answer questions about it.

Iâ€™ll do that, and then I just want to help my team.

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January 11, 2010

New Giants orange jersey

One way to approach the colors orange and black, if you insist on using the color black.

January 11, 2010

Jason Bay t-shirts spotted in the wild

The winner of the spot-Baywear contest is me.

I was in the Modell’s and in the sea of Jets and Yankees stuff, saw the children’s size Bay stuff. I didn’t see any adult sizes.

Way over in a corner I saw the “throwbacks” which I don’t think I’d actually seen in person. They don’t look good.

I don’t know how often MLB allows a team to change jerseys (there are some sorts of rules) but the retros should be a one and done.

January 11, 2010

Touring Mets History In The Citi Field Suites (Part 1)

Dear Mr. Howard, Mr. Wilpon and whoever else I take shots at. I apologize. I was wrong. There has been in fact plenty of Mets history at Citi Field all along, and here are the pictures to prove it.

I’m just a small brained blogger, so when I walked in and saw a tribute to the Brooklyn Dodgers, in a stadium built to resemble the Dodgers’ stadium….

…I assumed you didn’t love the Mets. Of course you do, and you keep the Mets history close to your hearts and skybox.

These shots are another great hookup from Peter. More tomorrow.

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January 10, 2010

Mets Jerseys with Osh41 (Part 2)

Another lesson on Mets jerseys from Osh41:

In 1974 the Mets removed the ‘New York‘ from the front of the road jersey. What they went with looks very much like the ‘snow whites‘ that are part of the home jersey rotation now (minus the black – of course).

Why the Mets removed the ‘New York’ from the road fronts is a mystery, they looked awesome. At any rate this is a clean look, although not as cool or as classy as having New York spelled out. And guess what is doesn’t have on it?? That’s right – BLACK. Don’t get me started.

If you are a jersey aficionado, i.e a jersey dork like me, you’ll notice the number font style that was in place on road jerseys from 1962 – 1973 has changed. What was cool about Mets jerseys from 62-77 was that the road and home jerseys had difference font styles for the numbers. Starting in 1978 with the intro of the pullover 2 button style – the subject of a future post – the numbers were consistent on both the home and road jerseys.

For more from Osh41 on jerseys read here.