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Article: Will Michael Schiavo use the 'Mark McGwire defense'?(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2005
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Byline: Chuck Goudie
"I'm not here to talk about the past."
That was the answer regurgitated over and over by scaled-down former baseball slugger Mark McGwire when members of a congressional committee tried to get him to talk about steroid use.
McGwire, who looks like a partially deflated balloon compared to his record-setting home run years, got away with that clever tactic last week. Although he appeared to be stifling some tears, he may actually have been choking on his own hard-to-swallow words.
But some members of the committee propped him up, allowing him to repeat the "I'm not here to talk about the past" mumbo without actually ...