We’ve all been reading about Mark McGwire.  Yes we know he’s done steroids.  Yes, we know that the MLB needs to be stricter about all this stuff.  Yawn.  I’m honestly getting a little winded with all this talk.  Can we just put it to bed by saying players will ALWAYS be using steroids and Major League Baseball has to do the best it can to get these players out of the league if they’re really serious?  However, they can’t be serious because they’ve never banned anyone and never will.  Is that fair?  I don’t know, whatever, just shut up already.

What I don’t think has been discussed is how a guy like Mark McGwire is a batting coach now.  How is this possible?  Here, take a look at all the current MLB batting coaches and tell me that Mark McGwire should have this role.

Most if not all the guys on this list were “hitters.”  They weren’t sluggers.   Most of these guys were mechanics out there.  They focused on their swing and making it to the base each time they were at the plate.  McGwire wanted to send one into the seats virtually every time he was up there.  And the only time he ever batted .300 or close to were seasons where he either played very few games or the seasons when he took more steroids than WWE Wrestlers.

I mean what’s this guy possibly have to offer?  “Swing hard, really hard.  If that doesn’t work, inject this needle and swing harder.”  Seriously I just can’t see McGwire having anything remotely decent to say to Albert Pujols in helping this guy with his swing.

I can only assume that the Cardinals just want a bunch of home run guys now.  I think I’m officially rooting for the Cardinals to have the worst batting average in all of baseball this season.