pretty dramatic. the sanctimony is what killed a-rod. many people got banned and then came back to win races. with both a-rod and armstrong, there s just the kind of public defensiveness and insistence that they themselves are heroic sort of against all evidence that i think gets them in trouble. i have to say to defend a-rod a little bit here please, be the lone voice that does that. he did not look comfortable when he was kissing himself there. c it was an awkward self-ie. maya, the money is also talk about incentivizing fame is one thing. it is a drug. but also when you are talking
with this. the change that s been made in baseball is that 10, 12 years ago this includes jeter never said a word about their fellow player doing steroids. they didn t really care. they didn t complain. now the splar complaining. now they want the even playing field. so now there s player pressure amongst the union. we don t want a-rod doing steroids, we don t want nelson cruz doing steroids. punish him. years ago that wasn t happening. stan, you have three centaur paintings? four. we have talk now about the nfl which is riddled with its own problems. we have talked about professional cycling, lance armstro armstrong, the downfall of his career. we talk about what does it mean to be a hero in the 21st century. what we re seeing is kind of systemic institutional failure, crumbling. and i guess the question is how do we come back from that.
kind of confession. fraser seitel says you should give it all. if you are going to do it you have to come clean. here s what i did here s who i did it with, here is when i did it, here is why i lied for 15 years to everybody. i guess the pr thing begins tomorrow. oprah winfrey will be on cbs this morning tomorrow morning to begin promoting the special. lance armstrong has some legal issues. he is facing a flurry of lawsuits more than $10 million that is just the lawsuits that have been filed. he raced for the u.s. postal service sponsored bike teams. the feds could essentially pursue fraud charges against him and he could still be facing some perjury charges.
denial after all of the lawsuits lance armstrong reportedly admitted i doped. he sat down with oprah that is set to air on her network thursday. according to the associated press they are just reporting armstrong got emotional at times as he confessed to using performance enhancing drugs. armstrong was at the forefront of the most sophisticated and successful doping program sports has err seen. last year the agency reported 11 of armstrong s former teammates witnessed him using the drug. 11 of them. cycling officials toured him from his titles and banned him from life. he later tweeted a photo his frame winning jerseys behind him. he calls the investigation a witch hunt. today is different a much different story. before the oprah interview armstrong stopped his live
strong foundation and got choked up with staff as he apologized to staff. what all we learned? this thing had a tight lid kept on it all day long. they released it. they did use performance enhancing drugs to win the tour defrance. they did expect some kind of con fregs. how deep did he go? make sure you are not issuing any quotes at all. just rapped with lance armstrong more than 2 and a half hours. he came ready is what oprah tweeted. we won t find out how ready he came. before the interview he went to his live strong foundation and apologized for all of the stress those employees have endured but did not confess to doping with them. he was expected to give some