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I have a weird view about lying. If famous people lie, it doesn't bother me if I can understand it.
I had no problem with a few baseball players that were retired, and lied about having taken steroids. They would have more to lose by admitting to something that can't be proven five years later.
What I hate is when something happens like the Manny Ramirez situation. He failed a drug test for some banned substances. He got a 50 game suspension (which will cost him over $7 million). Now, this is one of the best players in baseball. The story was all the talk on the sports shows.
What bothered me the most was that he issued a statement and some people are saying how great the statement was because he "took responsibility for his actions, and didn't try to say the test wasn't done properly or that they were just out to get him."
Well, his statement drove me crazy. It was such horse s***. He basically said some doctor in Florida gave him something for a personal problem he was having. And they didn't realize that this drug was on the banned list."
Listen Manny...you were caught. So just say you were caught, apologize to the fans and Dodger organization, and don't ever do it again. When you make a statement like this...I want to ask you the following questions: Are you going to sue this doctor for costing you $7 million? And, who is this doctor? Say his name, so other players or people don't go to someone that prescribes meds so carelessly.
I might also ask...since this drug was something that women take to keep from...oh geez, I don't even know. I heard three different things on three different shows...
...what was the personal problem you had? Now, don't tell us "that's personal." Because, you brought it up.
I'm guessing anything like Viagra or whatever else it could be...probably isn't on the banned substance list (if you have three balls and are choking up on the bat for three hours or longer, consult a doctor...)
Which leads me to the following. Teams all have doctors. They get paid well. They tape and bandage you up, look at sore muscles, and do a million other things. Why not ask that doctor before going to any other doctor? With baseball having such a black eye because of this and claiming to want to "crack down," I would think you'd talk to the team doctor even before you went for a teeth cleaning.
John Edwards, like most Democrats that always find ways to disappoint me...hasn't admitted that the woman he had an affair with probably had his kid.
Again, I understand why he lied about having an affair. His wife got cancer and it looked horrible. But when this woman has a child, all he did was say it wasn't his. Now there's talk he was giving campaign contributions to her and it's getting really ugly.
His wife is on the shows saying she still loves him.
Ya gotta love women. Even when they do what Hilary Clinton did, and evoke the Tammy Wynette song and claim they won't just "stand by their man," it's what they always end up doing.
To me, that's a form of lying, too. A woman doesn't want to sound weak and they tell their girlfriends they'd never put up with this or that. Yet when push comes to shove (sometimes literally), they're on TV defending the idiots.
Have you seen the woman who had her face shot off? She was given the first face transplant...and I'm not sure it looks better than it did before the surgery.
I felt so bad for this woman. Especially when I heard that a little kid called her a monster in a grocery store.
I lost most of the sympathy I had when she pleaded in court for the judge to give the husband that did this to her, lienency.
So, he only got seven years, and will probably be out in five. And he'll probably do this to the next woman he hooks up with and gets angry at. Hopefully if that does happen, it's this same woman.
It would be one less idiot on the planet.
I have a weird view about lying. If famous people lie, it doesn't bother me if I can understand it.
I had no problem with a few baseball players that were retired, and lied about having taken steroids. They would have more to lose by admitting to something that can't be proven five years later.
What I hate is when something happens like the Manny Ramirez situation. He failed a drug test for some banned substances. He got a 50 game suspension (which will cost him over $7 million). Now, this is one of the best players in baseball. The story was all the talk on the sports shows.
What bothered me the most was that he issued a statement and some people are saying how great the statement was because he "took responsibility for his actions, and didn't try to say the test wasn't done properly or that they were just out to get him."
Well, his statement drove me crazy. It was such horse s***. He basically said some doctor in Florida gave him something for a personal problem he was having. And they didn't realize that this drug was on the banned list."
Listen Manny...you were caught. So just say you were caught, apologize to the fans and Dodger organization, and don't ever do it again. When you make a statement like this...I want to ask you the following questions: Are you going to sue this doctor for costing you $7 million? And, who is this doctor? Say his name, so other players or people don't go to someone that prescribes meds so carelessly.
I might also ask...since this drug was something that women take to keep from...oh geez, I don't even know. I heard three different things on three different shows...
...what was the personal problem you had? Now, don't tell us "that's personal." Because, you brought it up.
I'm guessing anything like Viagra or whatever else it could be...probably isn't on the banned substance list (if you have three balls and are choking up on the bat for three hours or longer, consult a doctor...)
Which leads me to the following. Teams all have doctors. They get paid well. They tape and bandage you up, look at sore muscles, and do a million other things. Why not ask that doctor before going to any other doctor? With baseball having such a black eye because of this and claiming to want to "crack down," I would think you'd talk to the team doctor even before you went for a teeth cleaning.
John Edwards, like most Democrats that always find ways to disappoint me...hasn't admitted that the woman he had an affair with probably had his kid.
Again, I understand why he lied about having an affair. His wife got cancer and it looked horrible. But when this woman has a child, all he did was say it wasn't his. Now there's talk he was giving campaign contributions to her and it's getting really ugly.
His wife is on the shows saying she still loves him.
Ya gotta love women. Even when they do what Hilary Clinton did, and evoke the Tammy Wynette song and claim they won't just "stand by their man," it's what they always end up doing.
To me, that's a form of lying, too. A woman doesn't want to sound weak and they tell their girlfriends they'd never put up with this or that. Yet when push comes to shove (sometimes literally), they're on TV defending the idiots.
Have you seen the woman who had her face shot off? She was given the first face transplant...and I'm not sure it looks better than it did before the surgery.
I felt so bad for this woman. Especially when I heard that a little kid called her a monster in a grocery store.
I lost most of the sympathy I had when she pleaded in court for the judge to give the husband that did this to her, lienency.
So, he only got seven years, and will probably be out in five. And he'll probably do this to the next woman he hooks up with and gets angry at. Hopefully if that does happen, it's this same woman.
It would be one less idiot on the planet.