I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I`m sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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