But What About Barry Bonds?
I find it amusing that this kind of story, much like F-Rod earlier this year, gets consistently swept under the carpet.
People cheat. Really competitive people, who are paid for performance, have even more of an incentive to cheat.
Deal with it.
Corpas was caught by TBS cameras on Wednesday taking a sip of a liquid out of a cup and then pouring some down the back of his neck and all over the front of his jersey. Corpas, who earned the save in Colorado's 4-2 win, patted his chest and rubbed his fingers before throwing a pitch.
George W Bush used to quote an old Texican saying which was "If you're not willing to cheat, you don't really want to win."
ReplyDeleteAnd we know how that works. Which is, it works. We hate it when we're NOT on that winning side, but, as you say, the order of the day is "Deal with it."
Personally, I'm not affected by Barry Bonds cheating. So what? Did it mean I didn't get my major league baseball millions because of him? Hardly.
But when personally affected, there are options: The Courts, and if that doesn't work, there's always meeting the guy responsible in the parking lot with a tire iron or putting him in the corsshairs -- HEY -- we're Americans.
But craven stuff like that done by Al Qaeda or George W Bush -- killing innocent bystanders, that's the mark of a moron or a coward (the two NOT being mutually exclusive)
You don't blow up a building to get the CEO who's out on his yacht. You sink the yacht with him or her aboard. It just takes more intelligence and daring to be precise AND to take the consequences of your action. (But it's important to note that if you're willing to DO that sort of thing, then you can't really complain about justice if dothe same to you or they catch you and put you in a cage -- or on a gurney with a needle in your arm. You will be the one who changed the game from Right and Wrong to Quick and the Dead. )
SO, as you say, deal with it, in terms of "Get Over it."
I still find it interesting that none of the OTHER many many steroid shooters managed to hit as many home runs as Bonds did -- and many of them were playing in a much more homer-friendly park than Candlestick or AT&T.