"I'm Not Here To Talk About the Past...Well, Okay, Maybe a Little Bit."

Yesterday, former Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, who is 8th on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list with 583, admitted that he used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), including steroids and human growth hormone (HGH), throughout the 1990s.

In an unrelated, but equally shocking revelation, Fat Albert revealed that he often over-ate during the 1970s.

Both the Federal Reserve and the SEC responded to McGwire's announcement by saying, "We never saw it coming."

McGwire's announcement has received way too much attention, and not only in the sports media. Last night, while driving home from work, I turned to the local all-news radio station, in order to catch a traffic update. The national news which followed immediately at the top of the hour led off with the McGwire story.

What's next? Will Congress put the health care debate on the back-burner for a few weeks, so that it can delve more deeply into the question of who, exactly, used steroids 10-20 years ago?

Actually, come to think of it, that might be a good idea.

The real impact of McGwire's "revelation" is that we'll be stuck talking about steroids again for a while. Eventually, the discussions will cease, only to begin anew when yet another cheating ballplayer is exposed.

While McGwire's steroid use obviously took place a while ago, it would be naïve to think that newer, more effective substances aren't still being used in baseball clubhouses today.

In fact, a confidential source tells me that the league is currently investigating whether or not several members of the 2009 New York Mets were using performance-suppressing drugs (PSDs) throughout the season.

(Sorry. I couldn't help myself).