We think we might have posted this title before, actually but this time we’re quite sure: steroids are now a non-story.

Mack McGuire, PED posterchild?  He’s come out of isolation, signed a contract to coach for the Cardinals, and is going to work out with the team in spring training–with the semi-tacit goal of being on the roster to pinch hit for a playoff run if one is in the offing, and let’s be honest, that’s happening.

Buster Olney blogged today that McGuire’s admissions were all but nonsensical, since he basically  said he used PEDs to stay healthy…but then they didn’t help his performance, no sir. That was all him.

The thing is? It doesn’t matter. Olney is not the only one to have noticed this discrepancy, but he’s the only one to write long and hard about it.   Most of the geenral public, even baseball fans, will read overwhelmingly positive coverage of this development.  (After all, Olney’s blog is only even available to ESPN Insiders…or, in our case, to the exgirlfriends of ESPN insiders who never change their passwords.)

This is all even though McGuire claimed he never heard anyone talking ‘roids in the lockerroom, yet also walked away anytime the topic came up. Hey, wait a second, if…hm….

The point? It doesn’t matter.  He’s working in baseball again, the era has drawn to a close. Now, truly, he no longer needs to talk about the past.