Friday, July 26, 2013

Biogenesis and OTHER Sports

The whistle-blower who started the Biogensis frenzy that baseball is now sorting through says there are still other baseball names that have not yet been named and that there are other players from other SPORTS that have not been named as well.

There's got to be a lot of major league players from an awful lot of sports quaking in their boots right now.

Though I'm still not sure why the whistle-blower, whose name I shall not mention, is allowed to share this stuff with ESPN and others when HE had a job that required him to keep confidential information confidential.

He's enjoying his celebrity moments right now and that seems odd, because at the very least he should be arrested and prosecuted for revealing things that are illegal for him to reveal.

Though NFL players seem to be clean in this particular scandal, there were a lot of other sports mentioned. The list includes athletes from the NBA, NCCA, Professional boxing, tennis, and MMA.

Again NONE of the players that may be mentioned have done anything illegal, BUT they may have violated some of their own sports guidelines.

It's sad that we have to differentiate this. The whistle-blower who is being praised as a hero, did many illegal things. The players who are waiting to have their names illegally leaked to the media, did nothing illegal.

We do have our priorities screwed up as a country. I just think someone has to point that out once in a while.

Just so you know, I do believe that any athlete who violated a code of conduct that was required of him, did indeed do something wrong. It's just that in doing wrong, he did nothing illegal. People do wrong things all the time. We all do. But most folks don't do illegal things all the time. I'm hoping that we can continue to see the difference. Wrong is wrong, but illegal is punishable by society.


1 comment:

  1. It reminds me of the whole BALCO thing again. Newspaper reporters got sealed, illegal-to-obtain information and publish it. The whole sports world thought they were heroes. I think they were and are dirtbags for doing the illegal thing. This current situation is even worse.

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