{"id":102527,"date":"2013-01-18T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/102527\/your-call\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:36:20","slug":"your-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/102527\/your-call\/","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S YOUR CALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS THE PUBLIC GETS !<br \/>\nTragically true&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nMaybe&#8230;maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Armstrong&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nAND&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Lance Comes Clean<\/p>\n<p>Was he ever Dirty ?<br \/>\nWas he ever clean ?<\/p>\n<p>Was he really&#8230;&#8230;.?<br \/>\nOr was it more than that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nWas it not something that we all wanted it to be&#8230;.?<br \/>\nNo it does not make what he did right&#8230;.not in the least&#8230;..<br \/>\nBut ya know&#8230;..?????<br \/>\nHow many Tour De France&#8217;s in a row&#8230;???<br \/>\nSeriously&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>This is professional sports in our world today&#8230;..it just&#8230;.is.<br \/>\nMark Maguire&#8230;.Bobby Bonds&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Conned&#8230;&#8230;.played like a fiddle&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But by who&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nWell obviously by himself on one hand&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nbut also by the people who controled him,and also by the sport itself&#8230;..and like it or not &#8230;.by us&#8230;.his adoring fans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now what exactly is DL trying to say about all of this huh&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p>Believe me my friends&#8230;.I am a sports fan, not all sports&#8230;.not a rabid sports fan&#8230;.but none the less a sports fan.<br \/>\nNobody&#8230;.trust me&#8230;.nobody likes all this happening&#8230;&#8230;and so surely not me&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Are we looking for excuses where there cannot be any&#8230;..?<\/p>\n<p>I think so&#8230;..you know &#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8220;IT IS WHAT IT IS&#8221;<br \/>\nSimple&#8230;..too simple&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so my friends&#8230;.I just don&#8217;t. Make your own ethical judgements here&#8230;.that is after all your given right.<br \/>\nCall him a fake&#8230;or call him a phoney&#8230;.<br \/>\nCall him a jerk&#8230;.a cheater&#8230;.a lie&#8230;..an asshole&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;or worse<br \/>\nCall him a guy who knew how to play the game and played it exactly that way&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nCall him deluded, unethical&#8230;or worse&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Has DL become jaded my friends&#8230;..?<br \/>\nApathetic or worse&#8230;or<br \/>\nRealistic<\/p>\n<p>After all&#8230;..after all is said and done in any circumstance, in any situation&#8230;&#8230;.is that all that can be said&#8230;&#8230;?<br \/>\n&#8220;IT IS WHAT IT IS&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your call.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nDL<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[<br \/>\n&lt;div id=&#8221;&#8221; class=&#8221;_mp3rocket_overlay_style&#8221; style=&#8221;left: ; top: ; width: ; height: &#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>]]&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[<br \/>\n&lt;div id=&#8221;&#8221; class=&#8221;_mp3rocket_overlay_style&#8221; style=&#8221;left: ; top: ; width: ; height: &#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>]]&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ &lt;![CDATA[<br \/>\n&lt;div id=&quot;&#8221; class=&#8221;_mp3rocket_overlay_style&#8221; style=&#8221;left: ; top: ; width: ; height: &#8220;&gt;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>]]&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS THE PUBLIC GETS ! Tragically true&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Maybe&#8230;maybe not. Lance Armstrong&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; AND&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Lance Comes Clean Was he ever Dirty ? Was he ever clean ? Was he really&#8230;&#8230;.? Or was it more than that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Was it not something that we all wanted it to be&#8230;.? 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