For obvious reasons we spent some time this morning reminiscing about the 1998 home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Someone dropped a clip of McGwire's 62nd homer into slack, at which we point Billy reminded us all of something that I myself had forgotten: McGwire really did look ridiculous.
Look at these proportions.
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He looks like a fuckin' Street Shark.
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It feels silly now that there was ever any doubt that he was guzzling every steroid available to him.
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