Editor's Note: American Morning's Tuesday audience commented on Mark McGwire publicly acknowledging and apologizing for his past use of steroids. While the majority viewed McGwire as a “cheater,” others defended his use of the performance-enhancing drugs as nothing more than another method of “improving his heath.”
JC: Maybe people also should think about all the high school and college kids that have died taking steroids trying to emulate their athletic hero's.
Carl: You ask what we think of McGuire and steroids. I think he is a very dishonesty person and should not be given the job as hitting coach for St Louis. He lied to Congress I think but do not remember for sure.
Michael: I just wanted to say how many hypocrites are out there who are calling Mark McGwire a "cheater" for trying to improve his health in order to play via unnatural methods. No one cries cheater when athletes use cortizone shots to be able to play through an injury or what about lasik surgery in order to improve ones vision? It's unfair to Mark to discount all his accomplishments because he was injecting testosterone instead of cortizone.
Now that Mark McGwire has revealed his use of steroids, what is your opinion of him? Were the drugs just a way to “improve his health” as one viewer contends, or was he “cheating”? Continue the conversation below.