Deadspin breaks story on Mark McGwire: Brother Jay McGwire supplies record-breaking steroids

In a major breaking story on Deadspin, Jay McGwire will reveal that he was the sources of slugger Mark McGwire's power surge in the late 1990s, culminating in the 1998 season when McGwire and Sammy Sosa 'saved' baseball.  (Is that like destroying a village to save a village'?).

Seems that McGwires lil bro lost an eye in an accident, applied the insurance money to some serious anabolic drugs, which gave him expertise and contacts about PEDs.  Next up -- big bro Mark who was breaking down in his MLB slugging career.  To Deadspin:

"THE MCGWIRE FAMILY SECRET:The Truth about Steroids, a Slugger, and Ultimate Redemption" has been hitting the desks of the big publishing houses this week (and turned down by many) even though it may prove once and for all that, yes, America, Mark McGwire was pumped full of Deca-Durabolin when he hit 403 homers in seven years.

Jay McGwire explains things this way (thanks bro):

"Mark is a man I think most would like to forgive because his reason wasn’t nefarious—it was for survival. My bringing the truth to surface about Mark is out of love. I want Mark to live in truth to see the light, to come to repentance so he can live in freedom—which is the only way to live. "

According Brother McGwire, Mark's road to perdition began this way:

"Shortly after I won the Contra Costa Bodybuilding Championships in May of 1994, Mark took the plunge. I accompanied him to Sacramento where we met with my supplier and trainer, who explained to him how the different drugs would work on his body and answered a myriad of questions from Mark. Given Mark’s curiosity and lack of knowledge about steroids I saw from Mark, I would be shocked if Mark did something like what Jose Canseco claimed happened back in the early years....[M]ark began to use, but in low dosages so he wouldn’t lift his way out of baseball. Deca-Durabolin helped with his joint problems and recovery, while growth hormone helped his strength, making him leaner in the process. I became the first person to inject him, like most first-timers he couldn’t plunge in the needle himself. Later a girlfriend injected him."

And the explanation for the big '98 season:

"Prior to the 1998 season, [Mark] had reached a level where he did not need to get any stronger and he couldn’t afford to add any more weight. So I directed him to androstenedione testosterone booster, which is non-hormonal (which is why it can be sold legally and is not affected by the 2004 Anabolic Steroid Control Act) and works naturally with your body. “Andro” increases strength and aggression while promoting reduction of body fat and a leaner look to the physique....[U]sing andro allowed Mark to avoid all the potential adverse side effects that could occur from using anabolic steroids, such as water retention, hair loss, and liver, heart, or kidney stress. In addition, he wouldn’t have cholesterol problems or testicular atrophy. And there were no problems with the law."

Jay McGwire is not an unknown.  In an 1998 story in the Los Angeles Times, Brother Jay surfaces:

No one knows Mark McGwire’s body better than Jay McGwire, his 28-year-old younger brother and a physical trainer who works at a fitness facility in Chino Hills.

The McGwires, often mistaken for twins, lived together in Northern California while Mark recovered from the heel and lower back injuries that sidelined him for virtually the entire 1993 and ‘94 seasons, and it was Jay, into bodybuilding since high school, who helped redesign the supplement-aided weightlifting program that helped his brother return bigger and better than ever.

That program also has become a subject of debate in the last week as the St. Louis Cardinal first baseman wages a riveting home run duel with Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs and closes in on Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers...

McGwire has used androstenedione for more than a year, and several other protein and amino acid-type supplements, including creatine, for four years. Jay McGwire, who said he has used similar supplements since he was in high school without any physical ramifications, put his brother on the program during the injury-marred 1993 and ‘94 seasons.

In no way, the younger McGwire said, does androstenedione directly enhance McGwire’s performance on the field.

In no way, he said, is he cheating.

“It has nothing to do with his swing,” Jay McGwire said. “The only thing he gets out of it is enhanced tissue recovery. Weightlifting tears down tissue. This allows him to recover more quickly. It allows him to work out six times a week instead of four.

“Mark had lifted before he got hurt [in ‘93], but not correctly. We put him on a program strengthening his legs and abs, not just his upper body. We worked at increasing his flexibility. He’s bigger and quicker now. He has phenomenal bat speed, range of motion.”

And Brother Jay absolutely denies that Mark took 'steroids' (although the Andro should be considered a steroids)

“I mean, Mark takes so much pride in his body and is so worried about what people think of him that he would never do anything to damage his health or image. The key to anything is moderation, but that’s not to say he’s taking steroids because he isn’t.

Can't Stop the Bleeding refers to a Newsday article pointing to Jay McGwire:

The andro reportedly was supplied by brother Jay McGwire, a bodybuilder who, according to Time magazine, was so hooked on steroids that family and friends staged an intervention.

So the dog tracks were in the snow.  However, there is skepticism that the Jay McGwire book will be daylight:

...the proposal that will most likely never, ever hit a book store:

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