Well, loyal readers of Wildcat Blog know that I posted awhile back about the possibility of Barry Bonds' heat-catching being proportionate to the amount of pigmentation in his skin. It looks like maybe I was wrong.
See, I often wondered what would happen if a current, high-profile, lock to be a hall-of-famer, white baseball player got wrapped up in this media frenzy to catch all the cheaters in sports other than football, hockey, high school athletics, bodybuilding, basketball, and track. I had seen white guys like Rick Ankiel and others pretty much avoid the scrutiny regularly heaped on Barry and I wondered aloud if it was racial. But, with Roger Clemens' name showing up eleventeen times in the Mitchell Report on Steroids in Our Field of Dreams Pristine National Pasttime, it looks like the scrutiny does not rely on race, but on fame and how much you lie once caught.
It doesn't help if the person under allegations mimics many of our country's finest presidents and denies 'til their dying breath any wrongdoing in the midst of a mountain of evidence to the contrary. That seems to be the real catalyst for the outcries. Roger's buddy Andy fessed up (though he probably held back his level of use) and people are darn-near proclaiming him a hero.
Perhaps a lesson we could take from all this is if you get caught doing something wrong, maybe you should just say you're sorry and move on. Especially if you are famous and better than anyone else in your field. Those types of people are really expected to be more honorable than many of the people who criticize them.
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