Vitale sez: McGwire and Canseco should take lie-detector tests (WITH POLL)

by MJB on Feb 18, 2005 3:35 PM PST

Dickie V, in his espn.com column, opines that both Mac and Josey should take lie-detector tests live on ESPN to settle Canseco's claims about steroid use:

http://espn.go.com/dickvitale/vcolumn050214-Canseco.html

To end this soap opera, let's invite Canseco, McGwire and the players implicated to take a lie-detector test. Administer the test on "SportsCenter" and have a professional give the test and then air the results.

Here is more of Vitale's take on this. By the way, Dickie V really is a big baseball fan, he's a Devil Rays season ticket holder.

This story breaks my heart. I think back to the great moments of 1998, when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were battling for the home-run title and vying for Roger Maris' record. America's love affair with baseball and the crowds in St. Louis were so special.

To think that could all be tainted now makes me sick. I hope and pray there is no validity to what Canseco is saying.

The locker room is a place of sanctity, and whatever happens between ballplayers is the business of those individuals. It's disappointing that a guy has an agenda to make money off his former teammates with a book.

I believe some things that have been said are accurate, but I wonder about other statements. We don't know exactly what happened and how much of it is true and how much is made up to sell copies of the book. I feel that some of the details give Canseco some validity. Some statements, though, are dramatically drawn out to sell books.

Pretty dam funny. Heck, if they ever do get the Bash Brothers hooked up to a lie detector machine, forget SportsCenter and show it live on pay-per-view.

Take the poll.

Poll

If Canseco and McGwire took lie-detector tests...

McGwire would deny steroid use; test would show he's lying

4 votes

McGwire would admit steroid use

4 votes

"Chemical imbalance" of both players would make test results un-usable

8 votes

Test would show Canseco is telling the truth about 'roid use of MLB players he named

12 votes

McGwire would deny steroid use; test would show he's truthful

11 votes

39 votes | Poll has closed

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Another possibility:

Canseco says he did 'roids, but the test shows he's lying. He then bursts into tears and confesses on air that he was clean the whole time and just invented all that steroid stuff just to sell a book because he's broke and nobody wants to read about protein shakes and creatine.

by OaktownTribesman on Feb 18, 2005 3:39 PM PST reply actions

Circus

The steriod circus continues with speculation like this. I was a huge McGwire fan when I was a kid. I idolized the guy. The day he was traded to St. Louis was one of the most heartbreaking moments I've ever had in sports. Now that I've grown out of that hero worship for McGwire, I'm starting to think that he did use steroids at some point in his career, which is why I voted that a lie detector would point to Mac being a steroid user.

What it really comes down to, though, is that we're never going to know if any player has used steroids unless they admit it or they test positive. With McGwire assuredly being off the juice at this point in his life (if he was ever on it in the first place), we're not going to know unless he admits it. Nobody sees Canseco as a credible source, but he's sure McGwire used steroids. If they were to take this hypothetical lie detector test, it's a possibility that the test would be wrong with whichever response they players give. It wouldn't give us a definitive answer and just fuel the steroid abuse fire.

Go Beach.

by Dirtbag Pride on Feb 18, 2005 3:45 PM PST reply actions

Who cares

Everyone needs to put their opinion in on this one. I actually could care less what Dickie V has to say about baseball. If he is talking about steroids or his favorite player or anything. He is not a baseball analyist. He works with college basketball, not baseball. he can have his opinion, anyone can. But do not expect me to care what a basketball person has to say about baseball. Refering to another post about Charles Barkley. I will listen to him. He played a sport and he is knowledgeable (if that is even how u spell it). All I will say is I do not care about Dick Vitale. Maybe that makes me biased towards what he says. Who cares

I cried when I had no shoes till i met the man with no feet

by cubanAsfan on Feb 18, 2005 4:38 PM PST reply actions