Comments on: A-Fraud: Baseball’s Shining Example http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/ To build consensus on issues Thu, 17 May 2012 16:57:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Stanford Matthews http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/#comment-20126 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:09:06 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/#comment-20126 Some people are born with talent. Some people have to work especially hard to overcome any deficits in natural talent. Sport should be among other things a way to demonstrate that reaching goals can be achieved in either case. A showcase to exhibit admirable qualities in human beings not to allow the lesser qualities to tarnish what is good. To celebrate the victory of the human spirit over obstacles or adversity in sport should reflect those values we believe to be honorable and worth possessing in all of life's venues. To allow greed and selfish acts, to put it mildly, demeans the sport and encourages more of the same. Throw the bums out!! Some people are born with talent. Some people have to work especially hard to overcome any deficits in natural talent. Sport should be among other things a way to demonstrate that reaching goals can be achieved in either case. A showcase to exhibit admirable qualities in human beings not to allow the lesser qualities to tarnish what is good.

To celebrate the victory of the human spirit over obstacles or adversity in sport should reflect those values we believe to be honorable and worth possessing in all of life’s venues. To allow greed and selfish acts, to put it mildly, demeans the sport and encourages more of the same.

Throw the bums out!!

]]> by: Perri Nelson http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/#comment-20125 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:35:07 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/#comment-20125 As for banning people for life from various sports for cheating, I agree entirely. It makes more sense to ban a player that uses performance enhancing drugs from the game for life than it does to ban someone like Pete Rose for betting on the games. If Pete Rose deserved the ban (I don't recall, did he bet on games he participated in? If so, the ban was definitely justified.), so does Barry Bonds, A-Rod, and a whole slew of other players. We'll never know how they would have played <em>without</em> the drugs. As for banning people for life from various sports for cheating, I agree entirely. It makes more sense to ban a player that uses performance enhancing drugs from the game for life than it does to ban someone like Pete Rose for betting on the games.

If Pete Rose deserved the ban (I don’t recall, did he bet on games he participated in? If so, the ban was definitely justified.), so does Barry Bonds, A-Rod, and a whole slew of other players. We’ll never know how they would have played without the drugs.

]]> by: Perri Nelson http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/#comment-20124 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:32:13 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/a-fraud-baseballs-shining-example/#comment-20124 I haven't really had very many nice thoughts about Alex Rodriguez since he left the Mariners to chase after money in Texas, and then decided to go after Yankee money. He was a first round draft pick for the Mariners and rose to fame with the team. When he came back to play in Seattle for those other teams he was booed by the fans, and I had no problem understanding the attitude. I haven’t really had very many nice thoughts about Alex Rodriguez since he left the Mariners to chase after money in Texas, and then decided to go after Yankee money. He was a first round draft pick for the Mariners and rose to fame with the team.

When he came back to play in Seattle for those other teams he was booed by the fans, and I had no problem understanding the attitude.

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