Mitch Blatt: I think you were a little too quick to rush to judgment on A-Rod taking steroids because Derek Jeter said yesterday that we should give A-Rod the benefit of the doubt.

Scott Jacobs: lmao

SJ: Uh oh.  Jeter better not be on ‘roids.

MB: Perhaps he misrembered when he confessed.

SJ: lmao, it’s such a joke.

MB: He might escape bonds’ fate though since he did confess, and people still hate Bonds more than him anyhow.

SJ: Yeah, this is true, but he’s still a cheater. Like I said in my article: if you cheat for 3 years, I don’t care if you were clean for 14.

MB: Yeah i already hated him so I’m going to pile on, but if I look at the whole steroid era objectively I kind of have mixed feelings.

SJ: It’s a joke, a total joke

MB: We don’t know how many sluggers were doing it, and on some level, I am a moralist, rationalizing decisions like that.  If everyone was doing it, than the circumstances change somewhat.

SJ: I don’t think so.  If everyone kills someone that makes it okay? If everyone robs a bank that makes it okay? If everyone rapes a girl that makes it okay?

MB: Well first, each of those situations has a more implicit outcome on other people.  Whereas steroids just boosts you up and then makes it harder for others to compete, it would be like the feds printing more money for themselves, not like robbing a bank.

However on a larger level, if everyone is doing something and it is accepted by society, than that makes it right, because right and wrong is basically created by society.

SJ: To some degrees that’s true.

MB: I mean a communist would look at America and say all of us are evil for engaging in capitalism.

SJ: This is true.  Here’s my take: A-Rod takes us for idots, he lied to 60 minutes, and he claims he doesn’t know what he puts in his body.  Bulloney!

MB: Yeah that’s certainly BS.

SJ: Athletes kill themselves to ge in peak physical condition.

MB: And his claims against the Sports Illustrated reporter probably are too.

SJ: He knew exactly what he was putting in his body.

SJ: Yeah, the claims on Selena Roberts are way out of line if untrue. He bashed the crap out of her journalistic integrity.   He was desperate, and he needed someone to take the fall with him. Who better to attack then the writer?

And you think he went on the air under his own good conscience and remorse? No, I’m sure Scott Boras forced him to do that interview right away, and A-Rod went with it. What really grinds my gears about this whole mess is that A-Rod is the highest paid player in the game, and it makes me sick to think that the games highest paid player was cheating.

MB: What’s worse: the home run king cheating, or the highest paid player?

SJ: Here’s the thing about Bonds: he dug himself a hole early on before any of this ever happened, because he was an arrogant, all about me player, who the media hated. The media wanted him to fail.  He was a jerk to them.

MB: Yeah and because he denied it and because he was earlier on than the others, and because he lied in front of a grand jury, not just to the media.

SJJakes: Right. And because he was pompous; he wasn’t a likable guy. At least McGwire and Sosa were likable during their glory run.

MB: I fail to see how A-Rod is likable…

SJ: Um, I think there’s two schools of thought: he’s generally accountable for mistakes he makes, he’s never done anything stupid with the law (up until now), and he’s been a freak of nature ever since he broke into the league at the age of 18.  But none of that matters now.