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Is LaRussa's managerial record tainted due to players like Canseco and McGwire?

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JJP

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To hear him claim that is was the "modern" training methods used by the A's teams of the late 80s is disengenuous.

 
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No, I don't think the roids were widespread enough on his squad in 1989 to have tainted that title

Who can you definatively point to besides Canseco?

Even Mac was a noodle in those days.

 
McGwire was a "noodle" in 1986 when he came up. Just because he says he didn't start until the 90s, doesn't mean anyone can believe him.

 
LaRussa knew exactly what was going on. Anything he says otherwise is a lie. And for McGwire to come out and say he only took them to "rehabilitate" and not to enhance his performance is laughable and an insult to any fan's intelligence. If this is what Cardinal Nation needs to rally around, then they are scumbags.

 
JJP said:
LaRussa knew exactly what was going on. Anything he says otherwise is a lie. And for McGwire to come out and say he only took them to "rehabilitate" and not to enhance his performance is laughable and an insult to any fan's intelligence. If this is what Cardinal Nation needs to rally around, then they are scumbags.
Oh, get off of your high horse. I doubt many fans are buying that aspect of what he is saying, so give it a rest. No one is rallying around McGwire's misguided thought that PEDs never helped him hit HRs.
 
Oh, and this is a stupid poll. Steroids were rampant in MLB, so every manager's record would be tainted, not just TLR's, right?

 
Unless someone has some evidence that a manager was fully aware of the roid use on his team and/or promoted roid use on his team, it's impossible to hold them accountable for what the player put into their bodies.

Personally, I think most manager knew what was going on and looked the other way. In that, they are no more or less responsible then any other MLB party. Of all the people to blame for this mess, I probably put the managers at the bottom of the list, after the players, owners and media.

 

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