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Take a look now Al McGuire is admission of his steroid use impact his legacy. Will it be enough to punch his ticket to get into baseball's Hall of Fame let's bring in fox sports dot com's Ken Rosenthal. Reporter for Major League Baseball on fox content it was perhaps the worst kept secret in America that Mark McGwire. Took steroids does this tearful admission to help his case to get into Cooperstown.

Probably not there are some writers John who might take a compassionate view of what he did yesterday coming clean so to speak. But a lot of us are not going to -- this any differently than they did before. He's been getting about its point three to point 4% of the votes he needs 75%. Reduction. And frankly now that he has confirmed his use of steroids. To any difficult for a lot of people say okay now everything's fine.

Bud Selig the baseball commissioner's seems to be getting giving him the benefit of the doubt here it's as though this confession. Worked wonders with the dealing with the commissioner's office he of the so called steroid era a reference that is resented by the many players who played in that era and never touched the substances. Is clearly a thing of the past and marks admission today is another step. In the right direction. Why such I guess I'm glowing reaction do you think from the commissioner.

Baseball in general John is happy that he came forward finally. As opposed to what he did before congress in 05 which was to say nothing. To say hey I do not want to talk about the past. He didn't talk about the past yesterday and while we can dispute what he said. And I would dispute specifically. This idea is that performance enhancing drugs are not linked to performance. The bottom line is from baseball's perspective at least he spoke. Well he basically said that he doesn't think that the steroids. Helped him hit all those home runs they just. Helped him prevent injuries -- recover from injuries that's a little disingenuous isn't. In my opinion it's living a -- to think that way. Now he may believe that he may not want to bring himself to admit that there was a clear link between the drugs and the performance. But when he says that it simply is not credible to the vast majority of people out there watching. People like Mark McGwire they want to forgive him but when he says that it makes it more difficult time Ken Rosenthal can thank you.