The New York Time’s Richard Sandomir has the backstory on how Mark McGwire’s confession came to be. In blog years this is very old — it came out last night for cryin’ out loud — but it’s definitely worth a read:
The one-day plan — coordinated over the past month by Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary who runs a crisis-communications company, and the St. Louis Cardinals, who recently hired McGwire as their batting coach — contrasts with last year’s roll-out of Alex Rodriguez’s steroid admission.
Given that George Bush’s former spokesman was involved, I have no idea how anyone can doubt McGwire’s candor and sincerity.
Save it. I’m kidding. Read the article. It’s actually pretty interesting.
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- Dan Whitney - Jan 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM
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Thanks for the excellent late-afternoon reading as I’m waiting for the workday to end
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- Michael - Jan 12, 2010 at 6:54 PM
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If one of the bullet points on the plan was “don’t let the sports media make this about them,” it failed big time.
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- Home Lighting - Feb 3, 2010 at 6:29 PM
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- Cassandra Dyck - Feb 16, 2010 at 5:55 AM
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Are you kidding? I never thought about it from this perspective before. You really made me stop and think.
