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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 574932" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>To be honest? I dunno why the public even bothers to get upset. This IS professional sports, regardless of the sport involved. Should it be that way? Nope. But once participants in sports began making those enormous salaries, it pretty much opened the door to this sort of thing. Greed is more powerful than any drug, winning can come in a close 2nd. Now that I think about it.......this is now trickling down to college level and lower sports as well. </p><p></p><p>Nope. This doesn't surprise me, doesn't even bother me. Some sport player wants to hype themselves up on steriods or whatever..........well, karma will catch up to them rather quickly. Then they'll get to spend the rest of their lives (if they're lucky) deciding if it was really worth it or not. But the public trying to pretend that most of them aren't doing the same thing are fooling themselves because they are and have been for several decades. He just got caught. Like others before him were caught. </p><p></p><p>What about the college dude that pretended he had a girlfriend who died of cancer? Now that is a new low, even for sports, I do believe. And now he's bold enough to try to deny he didn't know he'd made her up. He claimed to have spent hours with this made up person, they were "tight" or "close" and were planning to be married. Now he claims it was an online romance.........Sorry, not buying it. He did it for attention and to make himself look like some brave soul playing in spite of his "grief". Well, he's got more attention than he bargained for now, doesn't he. Careful what you wish for. </p><p></p><p>I stopped following sports ages ago when I realized this sort of thing was the new norm. I prefer to watch little kids play sports instead. Although if they keep up with this "everyone is a winner" attitude that is so utterly stupid I might stop with that as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 574932, member: 84"] To be honest? I dunno why the public even bothers to get upset. This IS professional sports, regardless of the sport involved. Should it be that way? Nope. But once participants in sports began making those enormous salaries, it pretty much opened the door to this sort of thing. Greed is more powerful than any drug, winning can come in a close 2nd. Now that I think about it.......this is now trickling down to college level and lower sports as well. Nope. This doesn't surprise me, doesn't even bother me. Some sport player wants to hype themselves up on steriods or whatever..........well, karma will catch up to them rather quickly. Then they'll get to spend the rest of their lives (if they're lucky) deciding if it was really worth it or not. But the public trying to pretend that most of them aren't doing the same thing are fooling themselves because they are and have been for several decades. He just got caught. Like others before him were caught. What about the college dude that pretended he had a girlfriend who died of cancer? Now that is a new low, even for sports, I do believe. And now he's bold enough to try to deny he didn't know he'd made her up. He claimed to have spent hours with this made up person, they were "tight" or "close" and were planning to be married. Now he claims it was an online romance.........Sorry, not buying it. He did it for attention and to make himself look like some brave soul playing in spite of his "grief". Well, he's got more attention than he bargained for now, doesn't he. Careful what you wish for. I stopped following sports ages ago when I realized this sort of thing was the new norm. I prefer to watch little kids play sports instead. Although if they keep up with this "everyone is a winner" attitude that is so utterly stupid I might stop with that as well. [/QUOTE]
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