“Another black eye for baseball… Mark McGwire announced that he took steroids when he was on his big home run tear. He said they really didn’t help his performance – he just took them because he enjoyed the fresh minty taste.”

– US chat show host David Letterman on the white Barry Bonds tearfully admitting the truth we all knew, while claiming “I did not take steroids (and Human Growth Hormone) for strength purposes. As the brilliant American sportswriter George Kimball said, it was “the least-shocking confessional since Boy George came out of the closet.