Once Again, It's Not Cheating if You Don't Get Caught

You've got to love professional athletes. They'll cheat in plain view and then tell the world they didn't do it. That is, they'll have their attorney tell the world, or agent tell the world, or somebody else tell the world. There are exceptions of course, but all of these individuals named in the Mitchell Report were given the chance to talk to Mr. Mitchell and give their side of it, and the didn't. So now one of them is screaming that it's all a lie, he didn't do steroids. Well too bad. You had your chance. As for the rest of the clubhouse, come on, these guys aren't that secretive. It's one thing to say you never saw it happen in the clubhouse and quite another to know it was going on and didn't say anything about it. Anyone can turn their backs and claim they never saw it but it takes a man to stand up and confront it. It's a problem, much larger than the 80sh individuals named in the report. College and high school kids are doing HGH and steroids now. Who gave them the idea? If they're thinking that they won't be able to compete at higher levels if they don't start this stuff at their age, that's pretty sad. It's one thing for an adult to make choices on their lives, but it's now affecting those who are too young to make those choices, but feel they need to in order to compete with everyone else. Unfortunately, now I feel the need to read Jose Canseco's book on the matter. I heard one talk host say that it's not right that we as fans get so caught up in these athletes. Our main focus should be home, family, jobs. In a way, he's right, but that doesn't happen. We adopt these athletes into our hearts. We want them to do well so as a team, the team that represents us, does well. We all feel the need to have those people honestly represent us. When we find out they cheat, well, for most of us, we feel like we've been let down. Funny though, how others are so easy to overlook the cheating if those people are helping our team win. It's a mixed up, mungled up world we live in.

Another thing I'm not looking forward to are the elections. Every one of the candidates is a liar and a cheat. There's a great site - factcheck.org. They're totally impartial and will break down what the politicians are saying and separate the fact from fiction. It's one of the only ways to get the truth through this whole thing. There's much more to say on this, but that'll come later.