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Originally Posted by fleury
The thing about Lance was he sued others and didn't give a damn about them at the time. Now, being reporters, frankly I don't care, but it's not like they make a killing reporting on things, so he took some away from them. I do get swayed by people's arguments, and I do think now after seeing this, that he probably paid too high a price, but signs pointed to him being a vindictive jerk and that came around full circle. Now, the fact that he spilled his guts and admitted to everything certainly changes my perception of him (quite dramatically), as that took a lot to be that completely truthful. With reference to the argument that he shouldn't be punished because the others didn't, I'm not fully buying that. He gained probably more than those other guys with his crazy endorsements, so while he did lose more than them, he gained more than them too. Sometimes you need the biggest to fall to prove a point. We could make the same argument about McGuire, Bonds, Sosa, and Clemens in the steroid era in baseball. The fact that they were jerks makes it easy to digest. They were the scapegoats because they loved the attention rather than benefiting quietly. These are sociopaths and sometimes those are the perfect people to make an example of. Lance coming out and being almost entirely transparent is a rare example of an enormous ego being crushed, and the documentary did a great job.
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I think the difference between Lance and the baseball guys is not everyone in baseball was cheating.
The part of the Doc where he is listing guys from different countries where they cheated but 1 would still be working with no problems and another was a pariah, was a great segment I thought.
I really enjoyed the Doc.
Now this weekends 30 for 30 is going to be awesome too..'Long Gone Summer' about Sosa and McGuire and that era.