Somebody should tell Mark McGwire’s brother that if you’re going to try and publish a tell-all book throwing one of your family members under the bus, you should probably have something to “tell.”
Preferably something no one has heard before.
Yet Jay McGwire’s proposed book – “The McGwire Family Secret: The Truth about Steroids, a Slugger and Ultimate Redemption” – doesn’t do that, which is probably one reason it’s a “proposed” book instead of one you can pick up at Barnes & Noble.
Simply put, we’ve read about Mark McGwire’s steriod use … err, sorry, “alleged” steroid use … in a much less pretentious-sounding book called “Juiced” by former McGwire teammate Jose Canseco.
And that book talked about men sticking needles in other mens’ buttocks.
Yet Jay McGwire believes he is on a sacred mission to save his brother’s soul.
“Mark is a man I think most would like to forgive because his reason wasn’t nefarious — it was for survival,” he writes in a copy of the book proposal, which Deadspin.com says has been rejected by several publishers. “My bringing the truth to surface about Mark is out of love. I want Mark to live in truth to see the light, to come to repentance so he can live in freedom – which is the only way to live.”
Egad, Jay McGwire. Egad.
By yellojkt January 23, 2009 at 4:46 pm
This is exactly the type of story I put in my No Duh News blog. I’m glad I ran into it.
By Mab January 23, 2009 at 8:54 pm
yellojkt,
This is my favorite story so far:
http://noduhnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/wife-who-set-husbands-genitals-alight.html
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Light ‘em up — for all the world to see, I say!!!
By yellojkt January 27, 2009 at 10:57 am
Glad you enjoyed it.
By slick willy January 17, 2012 at 11:57 pm
that would have been great if mark hit 777 home runs. too bad he was really good.