“Game of Shadows” is gossipy? Whitlock misses big on this one.
Bonds and Clemens both did it for greatness in the game and to suggest otherwise is unintelligent. Whitlock misses a big point. Clemens has responded like an INNOCENT person should respond. He’s aggressively challenging the allegations. Bonds has never challenged what has been alleged against him this way. It is a big difference, in my opinion.
An innocent man goes out the next day and sues for libel. Clemens didn’t do that.
Clemens is a cheater.
I feel sorry for the family of Roger Maris, and Hank Aaron, and his family.
These idiots cheated and broke records that were done through sheer skill and stamina.
See, that’s why we have rules. Greatness in art and in sport are defined by the voluntary limitations we place on ourselves, and the amazing things we end up doing despite those limitations.
You can’t airbrush a Degas, and you can’t use a bat in a boxing ring, because the point is not to win, but to prevail - despite our circumstances.
They should just go away. No hall of fame, and no records, and no baseball card signings. Just a guy who hacked the system a little, and pitchers that never came up through the system, and hitters that never got a call - all because the players and the FRICKIN’ UNION decided to look the other way and defecate on the game.
The Patriots may just get their day of glory too - perhaps in a court room, but also from the league. I think we saw what kind of genius was at work at the Super Bowl recently.