LaxTV Forums | A Forum About The MCLA

Dan Wishengrad wrote:Weird irony and parallel to Marion Jones finally admitting to steroid use and pleading guilty to lying to investigators this weekend, after years of vehement denials that she was "absolutely clean". Her ex-husband sure must feel vindicated after being so visciously attacked by Marion and her supporters for being a bald-faced liar. I listened to her tearful press conference, but unless I heard an edited version she apologized to everybody EXCEPT her ex. They played some of her old denials, which were very convincing. The gal surely has a future in show biz, she's almost as good an actor as Larry Craig...

Can you believe that she's still lying though? If you believe she thoughts she was taking "flaxseed oil," I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. I read in the paper that she missed a drug test all the way back when she was in high school!

It's just sad, because now every time someone has an unbelievable performance, we can't believe it.

Marion's guilty plea might just collapse the whole BALCO house of cards. If the guilty start confessing, if Greg Anderson (Bonds' personal trainer) tires of rotting away in prison to protect his famous (and wealthy) employer, or if more athletes just decide to stop denying their obvious complicity... well who knows what we might really learn?

PS I agree with you, LaxRef... she has pled guilty and admitted to lying in general but has really not completely 'fessed up to the specifics. Bonds admitted to using "the clear", but still professes ignorance that it was actually a steroid. I'm worried that between the lying and the steroid use his head might actually keep swelling and could explode sometime soon.

LaxRef wrote:It's just sad, because now every time someone has an unbelievable performance, we can't believe it.

I don't know how Marion Jones confession changes it so that we can't believe anytime someone has an unbelievable performance. Just to name a few, how about Lance Armstrong, or the teenager with Autism last year, or Curt Schilling in '04.

I agree there has to be some skepticism over the great performances of today, but I don't believe we have to hang this dark cloud over all unbelievable performances.

I know I am an eternal optimist and sometimes it blinds me, but I would like to think there are still players out there that step on the field and let their absolute determination for success guide them to these great performances and not just that they took steroids.

Well, that's just the thing. Some of those unbelievable performances are genuine, but now we have to ask ourselves which ones are real and which are phony.

LaxRef wrote:Well, that's just the thing. Some of those unbelievable performances are genuine, but now we have to ask ourselves which ones are real and which are phony.

That is true. I just don't want everyone thinking that All performances are because of steroids. I would like to think more are not from steroids.

Either way, it is too bad.