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Originally Posted by Tobra
Thought this was about something else.
I have not followed professional baseball at all since they cancelled the World Series due to selfishness and childishness. All I get on it since then is the stuff about indictments and cheating you get pretty steadily. I am constantly amazed how many people feel the same way.
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Tobra, I was going to respond something like, "If that's all you see/hear you aren't a baseball fan. There have been LOTS of great games, series, and individual accomplishments since that strike."
Then I realized in some ways I feel the same about pro football. I was a dyed-in-the-wool Rams fan for years. I lived and died with them in the way back (to you probably) years of Jim Everett, Eric Dickerson (Gawd, I loved to watch him) Jackie Slater, the Youngbloods, Flipper Anderson, Henry Ellard, etc. Then they moved to St. Louis. I can't tell you how it killed me for them to go to and win the Super Bowl AFTER they'd left their fan base here.
Now I don't watch football at all. All I hear is the idiot scandals. The Pacman Jones, the Michael Vick scandals. I am not forgetting the earlier Ray Lewis ones and more its just that I forget them because I'm not a football fan anymore. I've gotten so far away from it, I now feel it is too violent. I would have laughted at ME in the past for holding that opinion. But it seems like a guy is getting paralyzed every year and at least one guy pro or college is DYING from something every year too.
Baseball WILL rise from this Bonds scandal. But no question it is damaged in the eyes of many. I am now; very reluctantly, in favor of brackets or italics around the entire era of steroids. Bonds' record is only one number that is a false reflection of the achievements during this era.