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How About a Cheater Olympics?
Published: 12/15/2007 2:49 PM
Last Modified: 12/15/2007 2:49 PM

It used to be that Barry Bonds was the poster child for steroid use in baseball.
Thanks to the Mitchell Report, we now know that we are going to need a pretty big poster to incorporate all those faces that should be next to Bonds' mug. A wall mural on the side of the Balco headquarters, perhaps?
Know who looks better in the aftermath of the 'Roid Report? Bonds. Folks who defended Bonds in the past liked to argue that he had to face pitchers who were also on the juice. Cheating is no good regardless of how you spin it, but I'll buy the theory that it at least sounds more fair when it's cheaters vs. cheaters. Anybody want to buy a pay-per-view of Bill Belichick racing Floyd Landis or wrestling Tonya Harding? (I'm betting on Harding, especially if the pipe-swinger is in her corner.) Bring on the Cheater Olympics!
It will be interesting to see how many folks who were outed for performance-enhancing drugs will claim innocence.
Roger Clemens has already done so, albeit through a lawyer. If I was in his position, I wouldn't have done it through a lawyer. (Believe it or not, lawyers have been known to spin the truth into something entirely different.) If I was innocent, I would have met the press face to face and answered every question until there was nothing left to ask. I believe you can tell if a person is lying just by making eye contact. Clemens should be making eye contact with people if he wants to profess he is not guilty.
If it turns out that Clemens is a big old cheater, he should go into hiding and change his name to avoid shame. But don't take the alias of Mark Twain. Another Clemens -- that would be Sam -- already has dibs on it.






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Jay (5 years ago)
How about the "all drug Olympics" skit from Saturday Night Live back in the '80's? Phil Hartman portraying the weightlifter whose arms pop off is classic.

I say put the cheaters in the Octagon with Randy "The Natural" Coture for the Next UFC PPV.
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