The story about Mark McGwire possibly becoming the San Diego Padres bench coach mentions the word "steroids" exactly once, four paragraphs into a 10-paragraph report.
Maybe it's just not that big a deal anymore. Maybe that's as it should be.
And maybe that's at least a small part of the reason Barry Bonds is talking to the Miami Marlins about becoming their hitting coach, as reported Monday by Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.
Bonds followed McGwire on the road to infamy. Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams wrote in their landmark book Game of Shadows that jealousy over McGwire's steroid-tainted 70-home run season in 1998 drove Bonds to start using the drugs himself.