Mark McGwire will sit down with MLB Network’s Bob Costas Monday night, hours after admitting he used steroids when he broke the single-season home run record in 1998.
McGwire, in a statement released on Monday: “I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989-1990 offseason and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again. I used them on occasion throughout the ’90s, including during the 1998 season. I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.”
McGwire is not the first admitted steroid user to quickly take to the airwaves. Last year, after Sports Illustrated reported that he failed a 2003 steroid test, Alex Rodriguez admitted using performance enhancing drugs in an interview with then-ESPN reporter Peter Gammons.
ESPN interviewed McGwire’s former manager Tony LaRussa on Monday, during the debut episode of its new, afternoon version of Baseball Tonight.
