Dee Gordon is thoughtful, personable and already rich. So he has all the necessary ingredients for a pro athlete to finally tell the truth about taking performance-enhancing drugs.
No more lies. No flimsy excuses. And please not another side-stepping statement when he returns Thursday at Marlins Park, like the silliness Gordon put out 80 suspended games ago.
"Though I did not do so knowingly," that statement began, "I have been informed that test results showed I ingested something that contained prohibited substances ... "
Just this once, can Gordon be the athlete who doesn't feign good-golly ignorance about the lure of PEDs or drop a carpet-bomb of apologies in hopes of appeasing any anger. It's South Florida. It's the Marlins. How much residual anger is there?
So, here's the truth Gordon can say before Thursday's game:
