The strategy that McGwire used Monday may have seemed well orchestrated because they were. The New York Times reports that the one-day plan was coordinated over the past month by Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, and the Cardinals. Fleisher runs a crisis-communications company.

Such a discrace. I wish MM would have just stayed out of Baseball and let those congressional hearings fade away into the past. Even though tainted, I still had a somewhat nostalgic memory of him breaking the record.