Comments on: Admission Of Guilt http://www.synapticdomination.com/2008/05/admission-of-guilt/ Ideas, Opinions, Discussions Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:10:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Robert http://www.synapticdomination.com/2008/05/admission-of-guilt/#comment-140 Robert Thu, 29 May 2008 14:32:56 +0000 http://www.synapticdomination.com/?p=62#comment-140 Racing is another one of those sports where "cheating" has obliterated the integrity of their sport. However, the juice isn't an ingested substance, it's a mechanical change here, an additive there, and an alteration here. It's funny that you mentioned racing and today I just read an article on 2 teams in NASCAR getting, in their words, "massive" fines and penalties. It's even funnier that the 2 teams involved think someone "fingered" them because they had ulterior motives. Of course they had ulterior motives. They wanted to stop the people cheating so the playing field is even. Now I'm not so naive to believe everyone involved are choir boys, but sometimes it takes someone to "rat out" the cheaters. Jose did that for baseball. Who else are we going to see come forward and try and make their sport clean again? It takes more courage to come forward and try to protect the sport you love than to hide in the corner and watch it whither away because of cheating. Racing is another one of those sports where “cheating” has obliterated the integrity of their sport. However, the juice isn’t an ingested substance, it’s a mechanical change here, an additive there, and an alteration here. It’s funny that you mentioned racing and today I just read an article on 2 teams in NASCAR getting, in their words, “massive” fines and penalties. It’s even funnier that the 2 teams involved think someone “fingered” them because they had ulterior motives.

Of course they had ulterior motives. They wanted to stop the people cheating so the playing field is even. Now I’m not so naive to believe everyone involved are choir boys, but sometimes it takes someone to “rat out” the cheaters. Jose did that for baseball. Who else are we going to see come forward and try and make their sport clean again? It takes more courage to come forward and try to protect the sport you love than to hide in the corner and watch it whither away because of cheating.

]]> By: Bob http://www.synapticdomination.com/2008/05/admission-of-guilt/#comment-139 Bob Thu, 29 May 2008 04:21:54 +0000 http://www.synapticdomination.com/?p=62#comment-139 A very good article that evidently not very many writers want to voice their opinions on. This is a subject that should have been put to rest several years ago, but as you said there is way too much money involved. When the owners, coaches, trainers, doctors and the players are all involved in this situation it is almost impossible to stop. When management is made aware of a "random" drug test to be done next week, I am sure that they wouldn't alert any suspect players, that would be deceiving now wouldn't it? SURE!!!! I would compare these sports to racing. Now how can I do that? Just take your weekend warrior that takes his street machine to the local drag strip a couple of times a month. He runs very well with several close races, winning some and losing some. Sound familiar? Then one weekend he starts getting mopped up by a new guy from another town. Why? He happened to have a few extra bucks so he installed a sneaky pete. For some that might not know what a sneaky pete is, it is nitrous oxide or NOS. All fine and dandy until your car is pulled out of the line up and the engine is stripped down and you are left sitting with a car that needs put back together and barred from ever racing at this strip again. Is this too harsh? I don't think so. I also don't think that it would be to harsh to strip these so called titles from these atheletes that use their versions of the sneaky petes. If you win something by cheating,what have you really won ? I think that these people should be barred from sports and their professions. Whether it be owners or managers for letting it happen, or coaches, trainers, Drs. or anyone promoting cheating to have an edge over someone else. If for one season the public would boycott these teams, I would bet that things would change pretty fast. I am not standing up for Pete Rose but at look what they did to him for what he did. I don't feel that what Pete was barred for was nearly as bad as what we have going on in our sports today. Barry who? Or was it someone called Bonds? Can you hear him telling his Grandchildren some day, oh its ok, I cheated but I didn't get caught so it didn't happen. A very good article that evidently not very many writers want to voice their opinions on. This is a subject that should have been put to rest several years ago, but as you said there is way too much money involved. When the owners, coaches, trainers, doctors and the players are all involved in this situation it is almost impossible to stop. When management is made aware of a “random” drug test to be done next week, I am sure that they wouldn’t alert any suspect players, that would be deceiving now wouldn’t it? SURE!!!!

I would compare these sports to racing. Now how can I do that? Just take your weekend warrior that takes his street machine to the local drag strip a couple of times a month. He runs very well with several close races, winning some and losing some. Sound familiar? Then one weekend he starts getting mopped up by a new guy from another town. Why? He happened to have a few extra bucks so he installed a sneaky pete.

For some that might not know what a sneaky pete is, it is nitrous oxide or NOS. All fine and dandy until your car is pulled out of the line up and the engine is stripped down and you are left sitting with a car that needs put back together and barred from ever racing at this strip again. Is this too harsh? I don’t think so. I also don’t think that it would be to harsh to strip these so called titles from these atheletes that use their versions of the sneaky petes. If you win something by cheating,what have you really won ?

I think that these people should be barred from sports and their professions. Whether it be owners or managers for letting it happen, or coaches, trainers, Drs. or anyone promoting cheating to have an edge over someone else. If for one season the public would boycott these teams, I would bet that things would change pretty fast.

I am not standing up for Pete Rose but at look what they did to him for what he did. I don’t feel that what Pete was barred for was nearly as bad as what we have going on in our sports today. Barry who? Or was it someone called Bonds? Can you hear him telling his Grandchildren some day, oh its ok, I cheated but I didn’t get caught so it didn’t happen.

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