You don't know what to believe in anymore.

Sometimes you dont know what to or who to believe in anymore.
I say that because it stuns me how athletes left and right are steadfastly denying cupablility in things, and then when the smoke (and mirrors) clears you have this chastened humbled athlete admitting to the very thing that they swore up and down that they didn't do. Take Marion Jones who after years of denying taking steroids and other performance enhancing items, now admits that she did indeed take steroids. She took what she "thought" was flaxseed oil, which was "the clear". What she took was steroids. She claims that she was taking what her trainer told her to take which she thought was flaxseed oil. How do you NOT know what you are putting in your body? I mean, I know there are times where you're not sure of things. I cant really tell you what that mystery meat I had in an "Italian" sandwich I had on the way to work yesterday, but when you are putting medicines in your body. How can you not know? Jones will likely enter a guilty plea to lying to federal investigatiors. The feds don't play, and you can bet that they will come down hard on Jones. Also, she faces being stripped of her numerous medals that she has won in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. All of which is a shame, I thought that Jones was innocent, but you have to figure if the Feds are coming after you, they have something. Like I said, they don't play The next person that they are training their sights on??? I'll give you a hint, he has hit a lot of home runs.
You think of all the people in recent memory that have denied wrongdoing and then been found to outright lied. Rafael Palmeiro's finger wagging denial in front of a congressional hearing in 2005 was met with scorn and derision when he tested positive for steroids a few months later. Despite his 500+ homers and 3000+ hits he may be waiting a while for a call from the Hall of Fame if he gets one at all.
Then of course you have Pete Rose, who vocieferously denied betting on baseball from the first accusation till he published his tell all confessional in 2004. For 15 years he denied and swore that the late Bart Giamatti was out to get him. The problem I had with that was if he was as innocent as he claimed to be, why quit fighting your expulsion from baseball? If that was me and I knew I hadn't done what I was being accused of. I would fight it till my last breath. Rose claimed that he was tired of fighting and was running out of money. I dare say as revered as he is in Cincinnati. I know this because I grew up in Cincy. Rose would have had a cadre, a squadron of young lawyers lining up willing to take the case on the cheap if not pro bono. He didn't cause he knew he was busted and he took the quiet route out. He got what he deserved as did Palmiero and as will Jones.

I cant just give you bad thoughts before the weekend so let me give you this. I have to give the phattest of daps to the Colorado Rockies. As a team they voted to give a full playoff share to Amanda Coolbaugh the widow of one of Mike Coolbaugh a coach in their farm system who was struck by a line drive and killed earlier this year. Their sons will throw out the first pitch for game 3 tomorrow night. All I can say is that shows class and compassion. Players divide the playoff shares as they see fit giving an 1/8, 1/4 , half or full share to the clubhouse personnel, batboys and gofers that do things for them. A quarter share is at least a couple of thousand dollars, so if say the Rockies get to and win the World Series, Coolbaugh share could be a couple hundred thousand dollars. Like I said, a classy, classy move by the Rockies who I'm rooting for to go far this postseason. Until next post fellow sports fans!