Posted on 03/18/2005 6:54:10 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
ST. LOUIS (AP) Mark McGwire was so popular in St. Louis after his 70-homer season in 1998 that a stretch of Interstate 70 was named after him.
Now, a St. Louis congressman who was part of the House Government Reform Committee says McGwire's name should be removed from the highway over his refusal to say if he used performance enhancers.
William Lacy Clay says he was disappointed in McGwire's testimony yesterday. He says baseball fans want to know if McGwire was using steroids when he set the home run record.
In 1999, a five-mile stretch of I-70 through St. Louis was named "Mark McGwire Highway."
The chairman of the state Senate Transportation Committee says McGwire's name will remain, as far as he's concerned. Senator Jon Dolan says McGwire was and is a hero to Cardinals fans.
Wasn't there, and I'm not making this up, a Senator Bilbo in Mississippi like that, too.
Asterick Highway!
That's what Baretta used to say.
This whole hearing is a sham if Barry Bonds isn't there.
What a joke.
In college I drove down to New Orleans on the Ross Barnett highway, Ross Barnett Bridge, Ross Barnett Lake, etc.
Mark McGwire's autobiography:
Page 1
I don't want to talk about the past.
The End
Meantime, a woman starves to death in Florida. Get a life, Clay.
Lacy Clay is a criminal SOB, POS and any other acronym which suits a lying, crying, corrupt, biggoted (anti-caucasion) polictical hack.
Bilbo. Cool name, though.
Why don't they just rename Halloween, Mark McGuire Day. LOL!
Deep Breath....
We've got 15,000,000 frickin' illegal aliens in this frickin' country and these frickin' @$$ wads in Congress who don't have one frickin' set of frickin' brains between the sorry @$$ lot of these frickin' morons are wasting the frickin' nations time on a group of maybe 200 frickin' dumb@$$ jocks in MLB who may have taken frickin' steroids.
These b@st@rds should be kicked in the frickin' nuts and thrown out of office....!
Bonds couldn't be there because he is the subject of an ongoing investigation (BALCO). On the other hand, some say MLB cajoled some of these Congressmen into denying Canseco immunity. If he was granted immunity it would have been a very different hearing. In that regard it was most definitely turned into a cartoon with daffy Henry Waxman playing the part of a yelling puppet.
Which reminds me, it would be nice if those wild and crazy guys who created Team America could come up with another puppet movie about this whole sordid mess to maybe convince kids of how stupid health-wise and uncool doping is.
Frick yea! Dittos.
This is why people used to wait until you were gone.
That way, you couldn't disappoint somebody.
Right on post 28!! Mc was older when he took them, it takes longer for an older body to heal from use and injury
and he, virtually single handedly, filled the stadiums back up after the whiney, er excuse me, baseball strike. Sosa and Griffey jr. helped as well.
Wherever Mc went tickets were SOLD! and thats the bottom line. He was old enough to know what he was doing, waaaaay past high school and college. Move along please, we're walking, we're walking...
Mc was never liked by the media here because he wouldn't give them the time of day. Oh yeah, add to that a successful white Mc. Of course Clay doesn't like him.
Tell us what you really think.
Funny.
I forgot about the highway part.
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