HOW DEEP IN THE SAND IS YOUR HEAD?

In the movie "A Guide For The Married Man," a fellow is instructing his friend on how to cheat on your wife: "Deny!," he says. "No matter what the situation, deny it. No matter what she knows, deny it. No matter what she sees, deny it. Deny, deny, deny!" It's a comedy and you're not supposed to take it seriously. Somebody should tell that to Tony LaRusso.

LaRusso has denied that Mark McGwire ever took steroids, that he never saw anyone (including Canseco) take steroids and he never saw anything in the clubhouse. When Canseco wrote that he and McGwire injected each other, in an interview, LaRusso said: I don't think there's any doubt that it's a fabrication," La Russa told Mike Wallace. Now McGwire has confessed (kind of), but that hasn't stopped Tony: "Well, they can believe it or not. I don't really give a s---, to be honest," he said on St. Louis radio this week. "If they think that I'm lying, then they think I'm lying." Well, guess what, Tony? We think you're lying.

Even after androstenedione was spotted in McGwire's locker, LaRusso said, "This guy goes to the gym every day and works. All that hard work is being tainted by crap like this."

So although Canseco has confessed, McGwire has confessed and drugs are spotted in plain sight in the locker room, Larusso continues the facade: I'm telling you -- we ran a clean program," La Russa said in his radio interview. "That's the way it is. That's what I say; that's what I believe. If they believe differently, that's America; they can believe anything they want to."

Deny, deny, deny! Maybe Tony should be banned from the Hall of Fame, too.

A comment from a reader (1/14/10)
Brenda said...
Another Theory -I think it may also have to do with the amount of time the issue was left open for public interpretation.Andy (yeah-I forgave him), A-Rod and Giambi addressed the allegations very soon after being outed with a minimum of denial time. McGwire et. al have left their mostly implausible denials, indignation and silence to fester in our collective consciousness for a long time. The betrayal has sunk in and stayed for too long. Forgiveness may come, but it too may be as long in coming as the confession.
Definitely a contributing factor. -CP

CP