Doing things the right way usually is.

Just so he didnt’ have to worry about anything coming untucked.

I disagree, largely because I think the guy is likely to reap the benefits of the admission while avoiding the worst of the fallout (and I don’t think he should be rewarded for his cowardice), but ok. I didn’t say he lied. I do wonder, however, if you’ve got kids, and if so I wonder if you’d be willing to let it go if you asked your kid about something you think he did and he said "I’m not here to talk about the past…

so that was another reason he wasn’t forthright.

He didn’t perjure himself either. I thought what Mac did in front of congress was sensible, perhaps cowardly.

I also would have told him to invoke his 5th Amendment right to silence instead of responding to repeated questions with blather about not wanting to talk about the past. What I object to is that Mac tried to have it both ways: he wanted to be seen as the stand up guy who also refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing. If he wanted an out on that specific question, he had a no BS option. Instead he (rather poorly) tried to maneuver his way through the hearing without answering the question and without responding in a way that could be taken as an admission of guilt.

I also sincerely doubt that anyone would have been able to successfully investigate or charge him for his late career usage if he had simply said he took steroids, it was a mistake, and he’ll never do it again, and chose not to get specific about the dates. If some FBI agent or federal prosecutor goes after A Rod or any of the other guys who subsequently admitted that they used, then I’ll cede the point, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.