'(To heck with?) Barry Bonds, MLB, and the whole game of baseball. Letting this thug and criminal skate through his career is a black mark on our system of justice. If poking himself in the **** were the worst of his crimes, I'd say just take his paycheck, but he's been using his money and his position to blackmail and intimidate people into not ratting him out for years. Baseball, a game in severe disarray since the last embarassing strike, figures it's better to have people talk about hating Bonds than not to have anyone talk about baseball at all, so they protect him too.
(To heck with?) the NBA too and it's support for the thug, drug, and criminal stupidity culture. Although if ratings and revenue are any indicator, the NBA is already well and truly (hecked?).
I suppose I should applaud the NFL since they finally got humiliated into at least cleaning up a few of the worst offenders by last year's crime spree.
Useless, high visibility rich people should be primary targets for our justice system if for no other reason than to cover up the bribes that let corporate executives slide through the system trailing the nation's pilfered billions.
Let's extend the 'three strikes' laws to all major sports and hit them where it hurts, the pocketbook. Three infractions means the end of a career and no post career honors. Athletes should be held to a higher standard, because they reap a far higher benefit.
End Rant.
(Un-Frontroomish language - Beirut)
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