Hulk Angry...Hulk Crush
This is the kind of story that makes me much angrier than it should:
Vick scandal latest to divide sports fans
... During the U.S. summer, the baseball season is in full swing while football and basketball teams trade and draft players ahead of their first games.
Each of those sports, however, has been overshadowed by controversies that have raised questions about the price of success.
August 7 will go down as the night Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants slugged the 756th home run of his baseball career, breaking a record held by Hank Aaron for 33 years.
Bonds's achievement was compromised by suspicion that he may not have spoken truthfully when denying that he used steroids to boost his career, according to many fans.
One week later, former National Basketball Association referee Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to two felony charges and admitted to providing tips on games he officiated to professional gamblers.
Donaghy, 40, faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years but stands to be sentenced to less time as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
Vick had initially denied involvement in pit bull fights that an indictment said took place on his property in Virginia. He then accepted the deal after associates agreed to cooperate with prosecutors under their own plea deals. ....
I mean...can we have some goddamned perspective here? Let's see...one of these things is not like the other, isn't it? Donaghy broke about a gazillion laws. Vick did as well. Barry Bonds? Nope. There's no one even suggesting - at least in a public forum - that Bonds used steroids after Useless Commissioner Selig "woke up" to the problem of steroids in 2002 or so.
I've been over this so many tmes it's entirely tired, but...is Bonds a good guy? No. Is he a dog killer? Is he fixing games? Is he wrapped up in a gambling scandal?
NO. NO. NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO!
Get that?
Look, hate the guy all you want...but it does nobody any good to lump him in with these CRIMINALS.