Ryan Braun Writes the Next Chapter in the PED Sports Book

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Beating a dead horse is one thing and nobody despises steroid talk as much as I do but there is something larger at stake than just players cheating in order the get paid more money.
I heard a real baseball guy on television say that he can't believe anyone anymore when it comes to performance enhancing drugs. He thinks that speculation, denials, admissions of guilt and people screaming innocence until being caught red handed has managed to do exactly what the guilty parties wanted: stir up muddy waters leaving the weary public wanting it to just go away.
With Ryan Braun we have another example of a guy protesting innocence right up until the undeniable truth is exposed much like Pete Rose and Lance Armstrong. But this tale has been different. Ryan Braun, like Armstrong, went out of his way to destroy a man's reputation all the while knowing he was wrong on several fronts. I no longer see a pattern of misguided professional athletes scared into panic-induced lying in order to cover their asses. I now see a psychopathic behavior of arrogance that will only get stronger each time the public lets another athlete get away with lying. These are powerful and wealthy individuals who are using the strategy of incessant denials in hopes that it just goes away. This is the behavior of children. In this case, rich children with an adoring public in many cases. Is it just me or does this latest chapter speak to a larger and growing problem?
(Athletes say that they are innocent until proven guilty. Would someone pay for a tattoo that they can get on their collective asses that says that only applies in a court of law and not in the court of public opinion.)
So after a decade plus of steroid use and discovery, after watching one of my favorite Chicago Cubs go down in PED flames and after seeing guys the size of Thor playing football and after listening to a hundred men and women deny, deny, deny, deny as you and I both know they are probably full of shit, I am going to get out ahead of the perverbial horse and speak out about another athlete previously tied to the human growth hormone story (and how convenient is it that it has managed to stay under the rug for the most part): the "eye and smell test" tells me that one day another chapter will be written about a certain golfer that was the absolute best during his time leaving all the field in his dust as he pursued the greatest golfing record of all-time. I bet my left leg that one day it will come to light that a certain golfer that went from super-human to just plain old human literally overnight will be quietly and remorsefully telling the tale of how he only wanted to break Jack's record. It wasn't the money and it wasn't the fame. He wanted to be the best and would do anything he could even if that meant having the oddly out of place body of a lightweight boxer under all that dry-fit clothing. He will tell how the public didn't seem to care that he was tied to human growth hormone producers. He will say that it never crossed his mind that he wasn't just cheating the game but every person who ever tried to hit a 3 iron. Perhaps he'll say that everyone was doing it and that it only helped him recover. He'll recall all the huge galleries that followed him mostly in support as he went from tournament to tournament, how he was inspired by their "forgiveness". Therein lies the problem. Although we don't like cheaters in the arena of sports we just don't seem to have time to care anymore and this is exactly what the cheaters are learning to BANK ON, literally....what the cheaters are relying on: indifference in the public's eye.