Not at all interested in talking about the past, McGwire to return?
25 October 2009 6:52 pm
HUH! The big news floating around tonight does not involve the weather in New York: it’s that the world shall soon see the (triumphant? tragic?) reentry of one Mark McGwire. According to… sources… he’s going to be LaRussa’s hitting coach next year in St. Louis.
I wonder if LaRussa is requiring this to be a contingency upon his own resigning: surely the Cardinals brass are telling him what a– if not horrible, at least horribly awkward PR issue this will be. I don’t think LaRussa quite gets PR, or quite gets the fact that other human beings act out entirely complex emotional lives outside of the minutiae contained inside those white lines of his universe. And not to intrude upon those very lines with frothing ignorance but wasn’t Mark McGwire a career .263 hitter?
It will be interesting to watch it unfold. STL fans seem to still love the guy- will fans act out their long bottled anger on McGwire on the road? Or will bygones be bygones? ¶
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