Tony LaRussa was Tony LaRussa Wednesday on the Ronn Owens KGO radio program. The normally tough, but fair, Owens played it a tad too much "Mr. softie", but overall, the hour-long conversation was fairly decent, if a bit too giggly.
LaRussa still defended McGwire's half-hearted mea culpa. I don't know why Tony is risking his image over Big Macroids, but I guess he has his reasons.
Here's me directly to Owens after the show:
So you really think Tony had no clue that McGwire was using ped's? You don't think Tony was 'taking a bullet for Mark and looking the other way? If that's true, I don't think people would have an issue with Tony, but many people who are friends of LaRussa think he's being disingenuous at best and a liar at worst.
Owens shot me back an e-mail:
I think he wanted McGwire's homers.
As he said today, "I didn't follow him home."
When you don't want to be put in a compromising position, you just avoid knowing.
Uh, whatever...
RAIDERS SPEAK TO JIM HARBAUGH--
As I opined here in this space passionately Jan. 9Th, the Raiders need to get Jim Harbaugh on board. Apparently, they met with him and he supposedly has no interest in the job. OK, so why did he make a trip to Alameda and meet with Al Davis? Like, why would you meet with an organization that you have "no interest" in? Like what, a cell phone wasn't available?
This isn't the end of this story. Think about numbers like this: 4 and 20. Yeah, draw your own conclusions.
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