worst part is everyone's forgiven big mac cuz he had a "good image". canseco is deemed a snitch so even though he was telling the truth hes still not as revered as mcgwire.
It's just weird. I don't get why he cried over this. It sucks, but it's not some big tragedy that happened to you. You did it, you got caught, just own your bullshit and the consequences like a man. It is what it is. He's crying just cause he feels sad for himself about being busted cheating? He's like a kid in detention who's dad is gonna whip him when he gets home.
@@rdr4095 If you find yourself in a position where you have to tell the truth, and it makes you cry, I think that qualifies as you being busted. Probably the worst way to get busted.
Damn right he does how he is celebrated in St St Louis & 62 is labeled in Busch Stadium & he's in the Cardinals Hall of Fame is a flat disgrace. McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, Palmero etc are tainted & 1998 to me wasn't real so I don't celebrate it in my baseball history guys like Hank Aaron 715, Pete Rose 4256, Adrian Beltre 3,000, Cal Ripken 2632, Kirk Gibson 88 World Series Game 1. Those events are my baseball history not a cheater like McGwire & him admitting 10 years after the fact I could care less he was to late.
We all got fooled by these steroids scumbags and starting with MLB maffia making millions and millions out of the worst false American sport in history.. baseball to watch?.. never again.
The reality is that Major League Baseball knew all these guys were taking steroids. I was a baseball scout for 10 years and a former minor leagues. As a scout I knew guys were on steroids but the home runs were also bringing stupid amounts of fans and money into the pockets of the owners. As long THE players hit homers and money kept coming they did not care. Once the cat was out of the box they left the players out to dry. Back then it would have meant the difference between a million dollar contract for those players. Is sad that these guys took the road of steroids but at the same time people have no idea how much pressure these guys go through.
Sure! The players did it knowingly. They did it to gain an advantage. They wouldn’t have made it to the big leagues or wouldn’t have had the success they had. Now they have to somewhat pay the piper.
Going to be completely honest with you out of all the steroid guys McGuire is the only one that could maybe make it in the Hall of Fame but then again we have players like Aaron Judge. I believe the only player that’s alive right now that could hit 70+ home runs.
His chest doubled in size due to his steroid use. His arms were like tree trunks. He is lying to himself if he thinks steroids had nothing to do with his batting success. His denials are sad but sickening too.
@@TheCW284 Scientists agree, so do I, that steroids do not improve hand-eye coordination, but scientists agree, so do I as I’m not foolish enough to disagree with experts, the drugs help build strength, this quickens bat speed. Better bat speed gives the hitter more time to wait on a pitch, to read it and follow it. Hitting in baseball is all about reaction time, whether it's a curveball or a fastball. Another benefit with anabolic steroids, besides increasing the speed of actually swinging the bat, is they help a player be consistent over an entire baseball season. That's the reason we saw those higher statistics for Rodriguez from 2001 to 2003.
@@TheCW284 Not necessarily steroids in particular, maybe, but many other drugs he was surely taking do in fact improve your hand/eye coordination, your focus, your reaction's time, and so on. People need to stop being naive, finding weird excuses or talk nonsense, they're called "performance enhancing" drugs for a reason, and all athletes in every sport take them for that same reason.
Yup Canseco can hold his head high when his teammate & especially his a-hole manager tried to make him the bad guy going back to 60 minutes with Mike Wallace. La Russa Canseco was jealous of Mark which is funny cause not 1 person in baseball has sued Canseco why cause he told the truth & especially helped the game.
@@patrickgray5633 I remember Kevin Kennedy on Fox talking about players when Jason Grimsley got caught and seemingly outraged about it, all the while he was Rangers manager when Jose was there and when Jose was in Boston in the 1990s Lol
Too little, too late. This guy is sitting here crying over telling his story. Canseco never shed a tear while taking all of the abuse from players and MLB, and was telling the truth the whole time.
people are dipshits. there is no fucking comparison. drug addiction is not at all the same thing as you cheating on your wife. stop cheating on your wife. just because mark used steroids to recover from the pains of playing MLB to make corporations rich, doesn't make him evil like you are for cheating on your wife. mark never made any vows to you buddy.
Let me say this (waving my finger) “I would have hit 70 HR’s without steroids.” Yeah sure Mark it would have taken 2 seasons for you to do it. It’s common knowledge that steroids make you stronger as Joe McGrane said hitting a ball 480 feet tops would be talent but hitting it 575 feet you have a competitive advantage in steroids.
Sorry to point this out, but I think if McGuire was a Latin player denying ped use he would also have been blackballed entirely out of MLb just like Canseco was after admitting his use of PEDs
Rita Maldonado that is absolutely false! Jose Conseco in an interview (I literally I just watched it 2 min ago) said he always said he knew Mark would of hit that many home runs regardless of ped use. And went on to explain that their stadium was very hard to hit home runs at for a couple reasons and believes if they played in a different park Mark would of hit 60 home runs his first season with out a doubt! So stop making false comments!
@@Mike_Davidson If deep flies that are outs turn into homers and grounders are hit a little more sharply and turn into base knocks your average will increase. That's common sense. Don't go to the extreme to try to win an argument. Nobody is saying an extra 15 pounds of muscle is going to turn a .250 hitter into Tony Gwynn. But the extra muscle could turn a .250 18 homerun guy into a .275 guy who hits 35 bombs.
As someone who has juiced, 1. no one that does steroids, doesn’t remember what steroids they used. 2. You don’t stay on low doses because usually each cycle you gradually up your dose.
Also you don't take them off and on because when you go off doesn't your natural testosterone levels stay suppressed? You kind of have to be in it for the long haul.
way to waste an opportunity to apologize Mark....denying that steroids played any part in your 70 homerun season is delusional ....you are in total denial....
Okay check it out....in breaking from tradition from everyone else on here....I want to DISCUSS this with you....like decent people...NO CUSSING, NO NAME CALLING, NO PERSONAL ATTACKS...you tell me why you feel the way you do (provide facts and examples if you can get them) and then I will rebuttal....cool
Erik Edmonds rookie year never touched steroids. Hit 49 home runs amd 118 RBI. No steroids. Always was known as a massive home run hitter without steroids.
Whether he took steroids or not, he was still an awesome player before that. I don't think steroids really plays a part in giving someone a better sense of ball position, where to swing, how to swing and how to connect. He's always been a good player. I don't believe steroids helped him hit more homeruns. He would have hit them regardless. Look at regular people who take steroids for a short period after being injured or a lengthy hospital stay. It is part of their recovery and healing. He could in fact be telling the truth that is why he started taking them because of all those injuries. If you really look at the ball player he was before he got on steroids, he skills shows he didn't need performance enhancement to be a good player. This makes me think of Pete Rose who's still not allowed into the Hall of Fame just for betting on games. Pete was still and awesome ball player which is what he should be inducted in for.
@@egseven For ratting out his TEAMMATES. Make sure to stay away from you as a friend or teammate (or even co-worker) if you rat out every single thing you perceptively view as wrong, when no one is perfect There is a reason why even on the issue of PED's Jose Canseco is one of a kind
@@egseven *Canseco is the one who introduced and pushed steroids on Mark McGwire!!!* Get your head out of your rear... Canseco deserves absolutely no apology
@@shaheedharun445 ur entitled to ur opinion. He was getting black listed by the MLB and he needed to do what he had to do. Cheating in professional sports is a big no no IMO. Some major media outlets painted him as a liar and almost 90% of his book was truth even if it took years to legitimatize.
you can tell that he wants to give the appearance of coming clean and being honest, while lying to limit how bad he looks. Conseco at least laid it all out and truly threw himself under the bus.
The number of players hitting 50+ homers exploded in the late 90s -- coinciding exactly with steroid usage. How anyone can deny the causation is beyond me.
I do not know how old you are or if you were around to see him play, but he was a giant man at 6’ 5” with 17” forearms. He was every bit of 270. You are talking to someone who is 6’ 1” and 365 and my brother is 6’ 2” 315 so I know what people weigh. To be as thick as he was at 6’ 5”, you can’t be 250 - it’s an impossibility. They listed him lighter than he was on purpose to avoid suspicion. The same with Frank Thomas. Look at Aaron Judge who is 6’ 7” 282 pounds and he wasn’t anywhere near as thick as McGwire...
@@dave3802008 Your my sir are delusional and admitting to being a Steriod User or a Fat man wtf. So now people can just eye people's wieght now, o boy what a time. There would also be no reason to list players lighter than they are who wouldn't want to see a 250 pound man hit a ball, you know it would be an instant homerun so what you just said was a lie.
@@joseanthompson9069 bro, look at Shaq in the early 2000’s. They listed the guy at 300 to 325 lbs. when in reality he was close to 350lbs easy. Same with Oliver Miller, that guy was super overweight and they lied that too.
All big boys like McGuire,Parker,Luzinski,Thome will gain weight as they age. Mark at 6'5' 6'6 would have been 250 natural as he worked hard, likely 270 without steroids if a chronic bad knee persisted, although most would go to mid section.
I don't think he's lying as much as he's delusional. Stating that he could have hit those type of numbers without steroids when no one else in the game, still to this day, has even come close.
Im a lifelong Cardinal fan. I cheered him on. I was at Busch Stadium for #62 and #70. This isn’t an apology. He refuses to admit guilt. It is impossible to forgive someone if they will not admit fault.
What fault? Selig and the media have never admitted fault, nor have fans for wanting a home run race. I saw 62 and loved it. I am not sorry for loving it. Baseball should have tested for steroids and banned abusers if it really opposed them so much. But baseball waited until after they had their money and blamed the players.
@jaredebel5867 I couldn’t agree more it’s such crap that people still celebrate this when it’s obvious artificial. Everyone in MLB from the Commissioner, Owners, Coaches & Players they knew it the entire time. Even Tony La Russa knows it when he claims he had no idea. Pete Rose said years later the truth & McGwire waited 10 years after the fact. People won’t forgive Rose but they turn a blind eye with steroids. Treat people the same when they are wrong of something gambling, steroids, cocaine etc
For those who don't really know, no matter what he's trying to say, just 1, ONE cycle of juice give you an INCREDIBLE advantage. I played football for 17 years, 10 on Testosterone. Hands down those 10 years were WAY better across the board. Every measurable statistic. For him to say it didn't help is laughable. And he knows it.
I agree, he is most def lying. He did it for the same reasons everyone takes roids. Also "I don't remember which drugs I took". Oh please. Every bodybuilder you talk to has an encyclopedic knowledge of drugs, it's like talking to a doctor. He is trying to minimize the role drugs have on his legacy.
@@timb4248 Yeah that's the usual nonsense, they try to minimize their use saying it was just for health or recovery, wich is ridiculous. Or use the hand/eye coordination excuse, when there are countless PEDs that improve that too and everything else. Drugs make you better in every department, otherwise athletes wouldn't use them. PEDs work extremely well, can transform an average guy in a world's beater, and gifted people like McGwire in GOAT contenders.
So i'm 46 years old and until April 14th of this year, i had never put an any form of testosterone into my body. I've always produced it naturally but last year i tore my left shoulder and after 7 months, i still couldn't lift a 45 lb dumbell over my head and my wight had gone up 20lbs and my test levels had dipped to 400. So i started test replacement. I don't want to live on it but i also don't want to turn into a women by stopping. How did these ball playings take androgynous test then stop then start again without it affecting their own natural production. In only 5 months, my production has gone to nothing
They would of offered Canseco more money to keep his mouth shut but he chose to speak up and clean up Baseball props to Canseco because at the same time he went down with all the others
JOSE CANSECO WAS ACTUALLY THE MOST HONEST AND TRUTHFUL ONE FROM THIS INFAMOUS ERA OF BASEBALL PLAYERS, HE SIMPLY TOLD THE UGLY TRUTH, THEY ALL OWE HIM AN APOLOGY
@@psilocybemusashi then why hasn’t McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Palermo, A Rod, Manny, Bonds or anyone else sued Jose Canseco. By them not filing a lawsuit against him his claims have to be the truth. Either they broke more laws, they know people who broke laws or they know he is correct in his claims a innocent man or woman is yelling from day 1 of being accused “That’s absolutely false that never happened.” McGwire half way admitted the truth that he took steroids years after the 98 season & well after 2005 that he was accused. I say half way cause we all know it helped him perform no matter what he says about health but lets also go back he said “The names I don’t remember.” Well that makes him pretty damn stupid to put something in his body that can be a risk to a persons health. Hulk Hogan & WWE wrestlers were taking steroids in the 1980’s & telling people after they found out the dangers do not take them.
@@psilocybemusashi Yes Jose was selling a book and I do believe he exaggerating things in the book. But Jose was pretty much correct on everything he said.
He's just sorry he got cought. The crying is fake. He just wants people to feel sorry for him. Him saying he didn't know others doing steroids is obviously a lie.
I find it hysterical he said La Russa didn’t know, & his own family never even asked him. That to me is BS with no cameras around driving in the car with Matt McGwire or at family events he’s really telling us nobody asked Mark or dad did you take this stuff????
I was a McGuire fan for years. I’m not even that upset that he did steroids. I knew 100% he was on steroids watching him play. What bothers me is him saying “they didn’t help me”. What a joke. He agreed to do the interview. Either come clean or don’t do the interview at all! Why take steroids if they didn’t help you?
@@joeysbestfriend2614 Sir, I don't see color. I judge people by their character and deeds they do. Some of my best friends are day labor hispanics that I initially meet at Home Depot and afro-american rappers who are lyric masters that became close friends while I worked at the detention center. The kind of friends I'd donate blood to or even give a low interest loan to.
He really almost doesn’t even realize how foolish he looks in the interview. From one standpoint he talks about how he could’ve done all of this without steroids. However from another standpoint he talks about how he couldn’t stay healthy, and admits that he used steroids as a means of keeping himself healthy. Well Mark I hate to break this to you but you can’t hit home runs when you’re not on the field. So you absolutely needed them to hit home runs. Hello?
I played against Mark in High School, and he was very good, tall and skinny. He went to an all-boys Catholic school he should have known better but ended up making a poor choice. It's forgivable as we all make mistakes in life Unfortunately that cost him the Hall of Fame with a bad reputation. He did make it to the big leagues with his work ethic good for him
As I see it , the problem is he keeps admitting he couldn’t stay healthy without it. So by definition his performance and numbers associated with it were enhanced and it’s too hard to determine to what extent.
people don't even realize how common steriods are. i was prescribed them every fall for my alergies as a child. that was only after they perscribed me multiple other treatments that had no effect on my debilitating alergies that came about every fall. if i was playing MLB at that time I would definitely have been taking steriods because it is the only thing that works against my allergies. if you don't know anything about pharmaceuticals or medicine you should definitely not judge mark. go back to your day job.
Jose has recently said on Vlad TV interview that McGuire really did not need steroids to become a homerun king....what hurt his stats more than anything was hitting at Oakland Collesium!
@@brandons5479 Hey Brandon, check out the 5 minute clip of Jose on VLAD TV here on YT.....actually I recommend watching all of the entire interview, but the clip with McGuire and the genetics he had without PEDs coupled with hitting in what was the absolute worst stadium homerun wise ever.....You are not wrong about the late 90s and moving to Busch Stadium....Big Mac was quite injury riddled by then. Honestly, I don't care, I think that if one is a professional ball player...the less than 1 percent in the world that make it to por anything and if PEDs help your moneymaker ie your body.....then do whatever you want to do.
@Justin McDonald That Vlad interview with Canseco was outstanding. What did you think about Jose discussing the challenges of hitting at Oakland Collesium? Can you imagine what kind of numbers McGuire and Canseco would have reached had they been playing half their games each season at Fenway Park or the newer park in Houston with the short porch in left field. Canseco was like a God to me when his career started to take off in the mid to late 80s. Canseco, Brett, Schmidt, Doc Gooden, Allan Trammel, Ricky Henderson, Nolan Ryan, Molitor and Yount, Louisiana Lightening Ron Guidry, etc.....no better time to be a teenaged ball player than the 80s.....younger years watching Johnny Bench and the Baseball Bunch and who can forget Mel Allen and This Week In Baseball.....
lets take Mcgwire at his word then, that he took them for health reasons, to heal faster, etc. That means that WITHOUT steroids, he would have been out longer, and possibly been injured more often, and recovered more slowly. That would have taken a toll on his ability to hit homers. Who is to say that he wouldnt have been injured without the roids in 98? That happens, he is out of the HR running.
The idea that it didnt help is ludacris. I will agree that he had the power before them, and steroids dont give you coordination or hitting ability. But they are PERFORMANCE enhancing drugs. That doesnt have to mean that he hit harder, but it could mean he was able to perform for longer at the level he did.
Damn, I'm 52 years old and always loved baseball, but I have never seen this before. It's sad that this was so called admission. Saying he did the roids for his health is like saying he shot heroin for a nagging groin injury!! Cmon mark, it is what it is brother!!
Athletes use steroids because they help you recover quicker from muscle fatigue which can lead to injury so I believe him about that because he was often injured.
Your analysis is severely defective. Steroids and heroin are animals of vastly different breeds. Stop bloviating about a subject regarding which you're severely ignorant.
firebird_SPLEEN OMG....okay listen carefully....what greenies allowed you to do was a day game after a night game, got back from the west coast late and have a game at noon....it allowed you to do in August what you could do if you were fresh in May or June...THEY DIDN'T TRANSFORM YOU INTO SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD NOT HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN....Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays didn't start taking Greenies at the age of 38 and 40 and hit 70 homeruns....you're comparing a knife to a nuclear missle....this isn't like scuffing a ball, stealing a sign, corking a bat, or taking greenies.....people who took steroids were GROSSLY TRANSFORMED
+R.J. Bama What was Babe Ruth on? Babe faced the talent of only part of the population: white people. Babe only played day games. Many pitches were created since the time of Babe. It goes on and on.
Who knows what Babe Ruth was on? I think during that time cocaine could be bought in any corner pharmacy. By the way I'm not going to make this a black and white issue, that's just silly. I know one thing for sure, the Babe was on hot dogs and beer. I don't know what day games has to do with it. Most MLB players today will tell you they would rather play a night game because the sun shining in their face is not a factor.
When I was a young kid I idolized mark collected every card and watched the season with my father when he broke roger Maris’ record and even remember him and Sosa were in a race to beat that home run record but you can’t use PED and break a record of one of the OGs of baseball who did it all natural with grit and talent
Steroid can’t do that man. It is about skill. Go and give a bat to a boxer and let’s see what happen. I am from a country that all young kid use steroids and they are nothing in baseball and they play. It is about skill and talent.
@@joshhighlights3310 they won’t make you hit the ball, but they’ll keep you on the field so you can. Any serious athlete knows it’s cheating because otherwise your body wouldn’t have allowed you to compete at all.
No one doubts that he was a great home run hitter but there are a lot of great home run hitters. The record should be stripped and Maris should still hold the record as no one yet has still legitimately broken his record. Which in turn means Aaron's record should be returned.
It’s funny how when he hit 62 everyone went nuts and now years later judge could hit 62 and it’s as though we discount anything that ever happened in 98
Come on mark..... no one just takes steroids for pain and recovery.... the steroids do effect performance and to say that they didn’t effect your performance is naive At best.
Incorrect, I took steroids strictly for recovery purposes under a doctors guidance. TRUST me when i say this....i didnt want to stop. The roids i was taking (anavar, andro) never made me larger or stronger, they could have at Arnie/Lou levels....but they sure did make my body feel like i was 18 again. McGwire is 100% correct that roids DO NOT enhance eye/hand stuff....but they do certainly change the dynamics
@@joebobmarley2854 Well testosterone plays a factor, but i think its the supporting hormone levels that are also changed....the goal is quit literally, gradually increase doseages until 14-18 year old levels are attained, then gradually weaned off and put on post cycle therapy after the seired recovery is there. Everyone knows at 14-18 we literally are indestructible, and that is the goal of hormone recovery
He was hurt all of the time because he weighed so much from using steroids ... Dude was 6'5", 280 lbs RIPPED when he was cycling steroids routinely like a pro bodybuilder, which coincidently his brother was. At the end of his career, he could barely run the bases he was so freaking big.
He keeps saying it didn't help him hit homeruns while at the same time saying he couldn't feel healthy and strong without it. Umm in order to hit that many homeruns, you need to feel really, really healthy and strong. So of course Roger Maris still has the record. I'm sure he felt a lack of energy and strength on some days too and battled through it without artificially enhancing his performance.
He's a flat liar Tony La Russa looks so bad in this with all he said that McGwire did it legal & right & Canseco was jealous. Don't think so Tony Jose Canseco helped the game of baseball more then most players before him & all of them after him other then Cal Ripkens' streaks.
Him, Sosa, Griffy Jr were the reason I became interested in baseball so to me always be a heros in my eyes. So what Sammy and Mark were on steroids. They made the game fun.
Agreed. The media, gms, managers and commissioner all wanted them to take steroids too. Hall Of Fame for both of them. I got to see the 62 home run and enjoyed it.
"I tried them in 89." Gee, who hooked him up? Jose Canseco! But the part of his book where he says we injected ourselves in the ball club before the practice was made up by the ghostwriter. I am on a regime of anabolics, a strict protocol that depends on a very strict schedule. You don't just bust it out in the gym locker room. That is a myth. But he owes Jose an apology. In the end, Jose was the only MLB player that was remotely honest. It's not the crime that gets you. It's the cover up.
jude999 I mean he was a big name back then... Everyone was using even the ones who weren't caught using it. Yes blame the Era. Even pitchers were using it
I gave my signed rc picture of Mcgwire to my 11 year old last week with my inscription on the back. In summary he was gifted and his use tainted his career. The reason his pic is valuable is because he owned his problem and went across the country talking to kids about how his use wasted his career.
let's get one thing straight, the dude is a 6'5 beast... he was NEVER skinny. If you wanna hate on him for steroid use then you need to hate on all of the MLB for that era.
You could say he was "skinny" at USC and his first couple year's in Oakland, compared to the overly Roided out monster he became later in his career.. He and Bonds were visually obvious. Like everyone taking heavy doses of it does. Unnatural
He probably started after the .201 season, was probably going on his way out... Clemens went 40-39 last 4 seasons in Bos. Before becoming superhuman in Toronto again.
Baseball is my first love from day 1. I left it alone finally for Boxing but Mark Mcguire has been personal favorite baseball player since his rookie year since day 1 wayy b4 that steroid situation and remains my favorite.
He's not capable of telling the truth...it always has been about about himself. Even this 'admission' holds many lies. He lied in Congress to protect himself, this half hearted effort was to get a job in baseball and only after its safe for him to do so after statute of limitations expired. This man spit in the face of the integrity of the game. For him to suggest he had to lie and anyone else would have done the same...is shameful. Shame on him.
Roger Maris just goes to show what a great player he was . I think his record should be reinstated back . 100% mlb is not interested in the right thing only money sad..
It takes a lot of balls to submit to a LIVE interview with Bob Costas, who is known for asking difficult questions. However McGwire didn’t know what he was getting into and was destroyed in this interview. It made him look worse. Tony LaRussa and Jose Canseco are way more to blame for the steroid era than Mark McGwire. Also Johnny Oates and other managers of roidrage teams. Kind of hilarious that it was the Yankees, who hit little to no home runs, who would win title after title in this era.
Yeah ,Ray..He says he only dabbled pre -93.. B.S .I was in.K.C..in May '92 and the A's were in town to play Royals..I happened to be at the Crown Center Hotel Complex , and happened to see McGwire and Canseco , Henderson, etc..McGwire was in lobby signing a few autographs , and he looked like Paul Bunyan .Absolutely massive human being .No comparison to his appearance as rookie in 87 ..Total transformation using the jet fuel .
A great hitter before usage, A better hitter after. The True talent can't be known. However, he never would have hit 70 HRs in 1 season. Androstene Dayan was said as used by Mark in the 70 home run season.
I remember when McGwire first came into the big leagues. I am sorry he cheated BUT i loved watching the guy hit. I remember the season. Baseball was dead after the strike and he and Sosa brought the game back from the dead.
@Jonathan McCully we don’t know that you could be right but we know Bonds & Mark McGwire we know cheated so that disqualifies them to me. Problem is we’ll never know about 70’s farther back but all we can do is know about that.
