Agreed, I got to see home run 62. It was a big deal. Baseball is a joke to put the guy in in Bud Selig, whose responsibility it was to police the game and blame the players for not policing themselves.
I’ll tell ya what man, As far as Sheer power/distance… McGwire is unmatched. And the fact he did what he did as A RIGHT HANDER is even more impressive. He still holds the career HR per AB ratio too.
he was the Mike Tyson of HRs.. i mean you tuned in JUST for him at the plate.. you skipped outings.. you skipped parties.. that HR chase made me watch baseball.. nothing in sports aside form the miracle on ice is close to magnitude ...
I remember seeing Mac as a young kid at old Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami and watching him go more than halfway up that top deck in left. NOBODY put on BP displays like Mark. Also according to many he put one deep into the players parking lot outside the stadium at Coors. Lol!
I watched him take batting practice several times at the Murph in San Diego. I saw him launch many deep into the upper deck, which was far recessed compared to the lower decks. An amazing show. Made sure I got to the park early to see it.
You can say what you want to, but Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa Barry bonds, and the rest of the crowd saved major-league baseball. You compare the numbers of people who are interested in the game now to back in 98 when they were chasing the record. The baseball riders are some of the snobbiest people in Hall of Fame voting. Greatest memory, Mark McGwire, all star game Fenway knocking it over the monster. You can’t tell me these men don’t belong in the Hall of Fame along with Pete rose greatest hitter of all time.
On that point, the writers knew about the steroid abuse too but don't want to accept any level of responsibility for not doing their job and reporting it.
Legends Territory talking to people after playing/coaching days is a MUST. You clearly get some diff. replies when guys aren't looking at owner or PR over their shoulder
Great interview! Love McGwire! Fun fact, Mark McGwire has more home runs per at bat than any player in baseball history. That is a helluva stat! Second on the list is The Babe. Not too shabby. 5/23/24, 6:31 p.m.
Come to STL and ask anyone about Big Mac and they will tell you he should be in the HOF. Whoever said he and others like Sosa brought baseball back to life, is absolutely true. Im a girl who played softball and I looked up to these guys and wanted to play just like them. Mark was honest about what he did and the others can't say the same thing. Power cannot make you hit the ball, hand eye coordination does, without that you more then likely won't hit the ball. He was built a bit bigger before the steriods and would of probably hit the home runs without the help of PED's. Regardless at least he is in the Cardinals HOF, which is better then nothing. I will say once he came to STL, it lit a fire under all of us and now the Cardinals have some of the best fans there is. What McGwire did in STL it paved the way for Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, Molina and we not only got a new stadium due to our popularity and growing number of fans but we also went on to win a World Series.
I’ve seen a lot in my day, but probably the most (IMPRESSIVE) thing I’ve witnessed was Mark McGwire taking batting practice at Tiger Stadium in 1999. Mark hit a few out of the WHOLE STADIUM to left center. JUST MISSILES---⚾️🏟️---McGwire probably hit 5 out onto I-75 that day.
I would put Mark in the Hall. He did great things for charity, Child abuse, and animal welfare. He was great for the game. Sammy did the same when Hurricane Georges hit the Dominican Republic. It was a fantastic year in sports.
AJ, it's not the Hall of Popularity. That said I agree that a Hall without an area dedicated to Bonds, McGwire, ARod, Clemens etc. is not telling the history of Baseball.
They have a PED area with a bunch of stuff. Bond's 756 ball is in there. (the one someone branded an asterisk on it). And some stuff from Sosa and McGwire etc...
Mark has a boarder line HoF case but falls short when you factor in the PEDs. Just because MLB didn’t have an explicit rule against doesn’t make it ok. It was against the law and nearly every other sport had already banned it.
All time career Hone run per At Bat ratio, 580 plus Home runs, World Series game winner, 2nd most ever home runs in a season, incredible amount of RBI’s… nah he’s not “Boarderline” he’s a sure HOFer. Lol
Look what was happening during that time. Economy was good, no wars. Baseball was back, the Yankees (even though I'm a mets fan) were starting their dynasty. Pro wrestling was red hot. The last great decade
Mark McGwire has shown enough contrition for his misdeeds. Everyone knows the HR Derby of 1998 was a manufactured scheme and that MLB loved the added attention and popularity--especially coming off the 1994-1995 strike. That being said, shame on MLB for throwing guys like McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco and the rest under the bus while reaping all the financial benefits. I've never heard MLB issue a formal apology to the fans.
Imho, as a guy old enough to have lived through this era of baseball. We had no reason to want to watch our home team, at THAT time. My Rangers were falling apart after the mid-'90s run. We did not know about the PEDs, but we didn't really care until much later on. Canseco made it a vitriolic scenario. Granted, IT WAS WRONG. However, this was in tune with '90s sports entertainment. Wrestlers, NFL pros and obviously MANY MANY other sports, from blood doping in the Olympics to HGH, "greenies" aka amphetamines were made illegal well before this came to light, yet the majority of players used one or more of these drugs. The late '80s-early '90s had a TON of PSA's about the dangers of using these drugs. We all knew it was wrong, because that was the media M.O. at the time. And rightly so, I do not condone it! But these athletes were already working their asses off, taking those drugs does NOT guarantee shit. You will not magically become Captain America. You have to work HARD. Canseco has said as much. Condemning players who continued to use, found new ways to try and beat the testing, those are the more deplorable individuals. Mark McGwire is still ripped to this day. You cannot stay ripped once you quit using by just sitting around and "enjoying your chemically enhanced physique" we've seen what people turn into who used for years, got swoll af, then stopped. They look like emaciated aliens or fat slobs, more times than not. If the MLB hadn't let Palmeiro and these other guys "fall on the sword" during the Canseco trial, they wouldn't have likely lied about it. A-Rod, Bonds, Manny Ramirez, etc etc, these guys knew better, as it was already mainstream. The OG guys like Mark, Clemens, Raffy and countless others knew better, but also knew the jig was up and stopped using. They were already HOF. But because baseball was under congressional scrutiny and were afraid they would lose all momentum created by the '98 HR race, made a BUSINESS decision to throw these guys under the bus. Just like they did during the gambling era with Pete Rose. You want to keep someone out of the hall?: Bud Selig, SHOULD NEVER BE IN THE HOF. He's the reason this happened, he knew. If they had quietly started testing and gotten the players to respect the illegality of using these substances-- most all of which were banned in the USA without reasonable medical permission-- they could've had a second chance and would all have been eligible for the hall, regardless. Instead they paraded them into congressional hearings and told them to lie. I refute anything Selig has said on the matter. They were made to be patsies. And the league has suffered tremendously for it. They should've have to continually be punished unless there is proof they disregarded the rules and continued to use. These are not all bad people-- some are, certainly-- but this isn't about their demeanors anymore. It's about what they achieved in the game, on the field. Which was remarkable. It's a shame, but the one good thing that came out of it was the drug-testing for all pro sports became WAY more stringent. Look, baseball is like card games, both have been well-known for having cheaters ever since their inceptions. Plus, if you think Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle weren't drunk as shit during some of their games, you're delusional-- this was all done under the guise of "they're role models for our children, they can't be allowed to do that" well different eras held different values-- they no longer drink and smoke cigarettes in the clubhouses-- drinking in public is also illegal, btw!-- but the old school guys who did it all the time made the HOF anyway, because "it was just how it was back then. You can say it hurt their performance more than helped, but you don't honestly think they didn't have drugs to enhance the performance of hungover players back then, do you?? Lol. Come on. Speed was everywhere. Later it was cocaine. The sport of baseball is a litany of hypocrisy and those gentlemen should be in the hall. Period.
How else does anyone make money on RUclips these days? The more we buy, the more they market, the more they find people that we watch to help them market, the more we buy, and so on.
you didnt hear what he said... if they had rules.. it would have been less than 1% of guys trying to do it... with no rules.. i bet 70% were on roids... i just wish these guys who have been tar'd and featherd would OUT all the guys they know did it as well... i bet people would shit and HOF guys would have to own it... and the HOF itself would have to OWN it... everyone knows there are roid guys in the HOF.. shit they let ortiz in!! he tested POSITIVE... how is that not the same as anyone else
But it's true, if there were rules and testing in place, it wouldn't have become a chemical enhanced arms race. Yet the joke of a commissioner, whose responsibility it was to police the game, Bud Selig is in the Hall Of Fame.
He actually was honest about it. Don’t get mad that a guy loves the game and loves talking about it. We don’t know where baseball would be today without him. But we do know where it is. The fact that he’s always been talked about being a good person definitely says something. People still talk about it today. So people still care
Mark may not have broken any mlb rules but he did break the law by participating in the trafficking and consumption of steroids. He’s already represented in the HoF, we don’t need to honor him with a plaque too.
Mark, Barry and Sammy saved baseball. Yet they put Bud Selig in the HOF. Truly a disgrace.
Sammy is a bat corker too...
They saved baseball yet before this baseball was more popular and after it’s less popular. Make that make sense
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What in the blue fk are you babbling about?
amen.
Agreed, I got to see home run 62. It was a big deal. Baseball is a joke to put the guy in in Bud Selig, whose responsibility it was to police the game and blame the players for not policing themselves.
Born in 93’ - Mark & Sammy made me fall in love with baseball!
He's the greatest homerun hitter I've ever seen.
I’ll tell ya what man, As far as Sheer power/distance… McGwire is unmatched. And the fact he did what he did as A RIGHT HANDER is even more impressive.
He still holds the career HR per AB ratio too.
he was the Mike Tyson of HRs.. i mean you tuned in JUST for him at the plate.. you skipped outings.. you skipped parties..
that HR chase made me watch baseball.. nothing in sports aside form the miracle on ice is close to magnitude ...
I remember seeing Mac as a young kid at old Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami and watching him go more than halfway up that top deck in left. NOBODY put on BP displays like Mark.
Also according to many he put one deep into the players parking lot outside the stadium at Coors. Lol!
That homer against Randy in Seattle was absolutely insane. If there was No dome, it may have gone 600 feet. Legit
I watched him take batting practice several times at the Murph in San Diego. I saw him launch many deep into the upper deck, which was far recessed compared to the lower decks. An amazing show. Made sure I got to the park early to see it.
Excellent watch from front to back. Loved the Big Mac as a kid. Like him even more now. Ton of humility.
The best interview ever with my favorite player of all time
Same! Great interview!
mcgwire fan since 1992 when started collecting baseball cards
I grew up watching Mcqwire and A's during the late 80's and early 90's. Mac is DEFINITELY A HOF!! SCREW THE WRITERS!!
Mcgwire is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Umpires need to be accountable and say I missed it.
He saved baseball!!
You can say what you want to, but Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa Barry bonds, and the rest of the crowd saved major-league baseball. You compare the numbers of people who are interested in the game now to back in 98 when they were chasing the record. The baseball riders are some of the snobbiest people in Hall of Fame voting. Greatest memory, Mark McGwire, all star game Fenway knocking it over the monster. You can’t tell me these men don’t belong in the Hall of Fame along with Pete rose greatest hitter of all time.
On that point, the writers knew about the steroid abuse too but don't want to accept any level of responsibility for not doing their job and reporting it.
Legends Territory talking to people after playing/coaching days is a MUST. You clearly get some diff. replies when guys aren't looking at owner or PR over their shoulder
Fantastic interview. This show is great - keep it up!
Great video. In time, this will get more views.
Great interview! Love McGwire! Fun fact, Mark McGwire has more home runs per at bat than any player in baseball history. That is a helluva stat! Second on the list is The Babe. Not too shabby.
5/23/24, 6:31 p.m.
Come to STL and ask anyone about Big Mac and they will tell you he should be in the HOF. Whoever said he and others like Sosa brought baseball back to life, is absolutely true. Im a girl who played softball and I looked up to these guys and wanted to play just like them. Mark was honest about what he did and the others can't say the same thing. Power cannot make you hit the ball, hand eye coordination does, without that you more then likely won't hit the ball. He was built a bit bigger before the steriods and would of probably hit the home runs without the help of PED's. Regardless at least he is in the Cardinals HOF, which is better then nothing. I will say once he came to STL, it lit a fire under all of us and now the Cardinals have some of the best fans there is. What McGwire did in STL it paved the way for Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen, Molina and we not only got a new stadium due to our popularity and growing number of fans but we also went on to win a World Series.
I’ve seen a lot in my day, but probably the most (IMPRESSIVE) thing I’ve witnessed was Mark McGwire taking batting practice at Tiger Stadium in 1999. Mark hit a few out of the WHOLE STADIUM to left center. JUST MISSILES---⚾️🏟️---McGwire probably hit 5 out onto I-75 that day.
Question: If these guys aren’t allowed in the HOF, should those on the 2017 Astros be allowed in?
You guys love cheaters so much so be consistent
Altuve will be in
I would put Mark in the Hall. He did great things for charity, Child abuse, and animal welfare. He was great for the game. Sammy did the same when Hurricane Georges hit the Dominican Republic. It was a fantastic year in sports.
This was amazing. Thanks for doing this. I just wish you would have asked him about the Lonely Island Netflix special
Mark would make a good Manager 👍👍👍
Big Mac.. Rules
Will never forget that Nuke against Randy in Seattle. That shit looked like 600 feet
AJ, it's not the Hall of Popularity. That said I agree that a Hall without an area dedicated to Bonds, McGwire, ARod, Clemens etc. is not telling the history of Baseball.
They have a PED area with a bunch of stuff. Bond's 756 ball is in there. (the one someone branded an asterisk on it). And some stuff from Sosa and McGwire etc...
You're right it's not the Hall Of Popularity, which is why the juicers should go in.
He deserves the HOF
Mark should be in the HOF
Mark has a boarder line HoF case but falls short when you factor in the PEDs. Just because MLB didn’t have an explicit rule against doesn’t make it ok. It was against the law and nearly every other sport had already banned it.
All time career Hone run per At Bat ratio, 580 plus Home runs, World Series game winner, 2nd most ever home runs in a season, incredible amount of RBI’s… nah he’s not “Boarderline” he’s a sure HOFer. Lol
@@blacklabsmatter3632 "Borderline" 🙄Dude, sit down. His resume was easily HOF worthy.
@@blacklabsmatter3632wild take
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And it's borderline, professor.
Look what was happening during that time. Economy was good, no wars. Baseball was back, the Yankees (even though I'm a mets fan) were starting their dynasty. Pro wrestling was red hot. The last great decade
My god. Almost 600 homers with less than 1700 hits/7200 At Bats? That's staggering. Holy shit.
he hit a HR out of both Tiger and dodger stadium both over 480ft
Need time stamps.
Be the change you want to see in the world
@fated
Need to mind your own fkg business. Or you'll get time-stamped, junior.
@@TheBatugan77 he's right though they're only hurting themselves
44:28 If you watched baseball back in the 90’s, Mark always used to say this about breaking the record.
❤️my fantasy husband ❤ can’t believe he will be 60 on October 1😊❤
the league knew what was going on
Mark McGwire has shown enough contrition for his misdeeds. Everyone knows the HR Derby of 1998 was a manufactured scheme and that MLB loved the added attention and popularity--especially coming off the 1994-1995 strike. That being said, shame on MLB for throwing guys like McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco and the rest under the bus while reaping all the financial benefits. I've never heard MLB issue a formal apology to the fans.
My name's Mark McGwire I play first base
Imho, as a guy old enough to have lived through this era of baseball. We had no reason to want to watch our home team, at THAT time. My Rangers were falling apart after the mid-'90s run. We did not know about the PEDs, but we didn't really care until much later on. Canseco made it a vitriolic scenario. Granted, IT WAS WRONG. However, this was in tune with '90s sports entertainment. Wrestlers, NFL pros and obviously MANY MANY other sports, from blood doping in the Olympics to HGH, "greenies" aka amphetamines were made illegal well before this came to light, yet the majority of players used one or more of these drugs. The late '80s-early '90s had a TON of PSA's about the dangers of using these drugs. We all knew it was wrong, because that was the media M.O. at the time. And rightly so, I do not condone it! But these athletes were already working their asses off, taking those drugs does NOT guarantee shit. You will not magically become Captain America. You have to work HARD. Canseco has said as much. Condemning players who continued to use, found new ways to try and beat the testing, those are the more deplorable individuals. Mark McGwire is still ripped to this day. You cannot stay ripped once you quit using by just sitting around and "enjoying your chemically enhanced physique" we've seen what people turn into who used for years, got swoll af, then stopped. They look like emaciated aliens or fat slobs, more times than not. If the MLB hadn't let Palmeiro and these other guys "fall on the sword" during the Canseco trial, they wouldn't have likely lied about it. A-Rod, Bonds, Manny Ramirez, etc etc, these guys knew better, as it was already mainstream. The OG guys like Mark, Clemens, Raffy and countless others knew better, but also knew the jig was up and stopped using. They were already HOF. But because baseball was under congressional scrutiny and were afraid they would lose all momentum created by the '98 HR race, made a BUSINESS decision to throw these guys under the bus. Just like they did during the gambling era with Pete Rose. You want to keep someone out of the hall?: Bud Selig, SHOULD NEVER BE IN THE HOF. He's the reason this happened, he knew. If they had quietly started testing and gotten the players to respect the illegality of using these substances-- most all of which were banned in the USA without reasonable medical permission-- they could've had a second chance and would all have been eligible for the hall, regardless. Instead they paraded them into congressional hearings and told them to lie. I refute anything Selig has said on the matter. They were made to be patsies. And the league has suffered tremendously for it. They should've have to continually be punished unless there is proof they disregarded the rules and continued to use. These are not all bad people-- some are, certainly-- but this isn't about their demeanors anymore. It's about what they achieved in the game, on the field. Which was remarkable. It's a shame, but the one good thing that came out of it was the drug-testing for all pro sports became WAY more stringent. Look, baseball is like card games, both have been well-known for having cheaters ever since their inceptions. Plus, if you think Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle weren't drunk as shit during some of their games, you're delusional-- this was all done under the guise of "they're role models for our children, they can't be allowed to do that" well different eras held different values-- they no longer drink and smoke cigarettes in the clubhouses-- drinking in public is also illegal, btw!-- but the old school guys who did it all the time made the HOF anyway, because "it was just how it was back then. You can say it hurt their performance more than helped, but you don't honestly think they didn't have drugs to enhance the performance of hungover players back then, do you?? Lol. Come on. Speed was everywhere. Later it was cocaine. The sport of baseball is a litany of hypocrisy and those gentlemen should be in the hall. Period.
Ever notice all the crooked 'suits' get in the HOF but the players get shafted?
Just a matter of time before you guys get in with all the advertisements to
How else does anyone make money on RUclips these days? The more we buy, the more they market, the more they find people that we watch to help them market, the more we buy, and so on.
Pete Rose is not in what make you think this group will get in?? Do you believed that if they were clean they would have the same numbers?
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Too bad the guy used those performance enhancing drugs. Looked like Paul Bunyan when he played with the Cardinals.
Um, so what?
He was talking about the roids
cheater
“If there were no rules in place that wouldn’t have happened.” Yeah okay mark. See what happened to Tatis?
you didnt hear what he said... if they had rules.. it would have been less than 1% of guys trying to do it...
with no rules.. i bet 70% were on roids...
i just wish these guys who have been tar'd and featherd would OUT all the guys they know did it as well... i bet people would shit
and HOF guys would have to own it... and the HOF itself would have to OWN it... everyone knows there are roid guys in the HOF..
shit they let ortiz in!! he tested POSITIVE... how is that not the same as anyone else
That's not what he said lol
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Whadda maroon!
But it's true, if there were rules and testing in place, it wouldn't have become a chemical enhanced arms race.
Yet the joke of a commissioner, whose responsibility it was to police the game, Bud Selig is in the Hall Of Fame.
After he retired and nobody cares about him anymore now all of a sudden he’s doing “honest” interviews. Give me a break
He actually was honest about it. Don’t get mad that a guy loves the game and loves talking about it. We don’t know where baseball would be today without him. But we do know where it is. The fact that he’s always been talked about being a good person definitely says something. People still talk about it today. So people still care
@eya whatever
Give you a break?
How about a size twelve foot in a steel-toed boot broke off in your shit-chute?
Mark may not have broken any mlb rules but he did break the law by participating in the trafficking and consumption of steroids. He’s already represented in the HoF, we don’t need to honor him with a plaque too.
Yes we do
Maybe you don't.
We do.