My confessional on sports

The time spent in my life goes something like this: sleeping, going to school, playing baseball. It pains me to dislike baseball as it defined so much of my upbringing. But I will be a baseball hater until Bud Selig does something other than continue to degrade and make a mockery of our national pastime.

Watching priority: Food network, just about anything else, All Star game, Bachelor. Bachelor?!?
I will be holding the megaphone at the Oelwein Sprint Tri.
My foursome is Dad, Dennis Rodman, & Colin Kaepernick. We are all playing shirtless.
I do not own any Lance Armstrong gear. I haven't avoided it, but I don't have any.
My mirror words: I am not Sammy say it ain't Sosa. Doper.

The real moral and takeaway as it relates to the doping issues in baseball and cycling is this: DON'T LIE! Lance Armstrong and now Ryan Braun have caused incredibly more damage to themselves, their families, and their sport by trying to cover up, lie, and attack others who accused them. If you did it, then say you did it. Our society has a tremendous capacity to forgive and provide second chances to our athletes. Both of these guys could have received that treatment, but they chose to lie about it and they will be disgraced forever as a result.

This is an excerpt of the speech Ryan Braun gave when he won his appeal on a technicality in 2012:

If I had done this intentionally or unintentionally I'd be the first one to step up and say, 'I did it.' By no means am I perfect, but if I've ever made any mistakes in my life I've taken responsibility for my actions. I truly believe in my heart, and I would bet my life that this substance never entered by body at any point. I will continue to take the high road because that's who I am and that's the way I have lived my life. We won because the truth is on my side. The truth is always relevant and at the end of the day the truth prevailed.

This is an incredibly similar stance Lance took for so many years. And they were right, the truth did prevail, and they will be disgraced for life because of it.