PAiN
06-06-2014, 11:37 PM
Proof baseball fans don't care about steroids
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If the 2014 All-Star Game were held today, a handful of players suspended for using performance enhancing drugs would start the game. Nelson Cruz, Melky Cabrera, and Ryan Braun — all of whom were linked to Biogenesis and temporarily booted from baseball — are in place to start, per the latest (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/robinson-cano-nelson-cruz-take-leads-at-their-positions-in-al-all-star-voting?ymd=20140602&content_id=77866044&vkey=news_mlb) fan vote tallies (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/troy-tulowitzki-holds-big-lead-at-shortstop-in-nl-all-star-voting?ymd=20140528&content_id=77175564&vkey=news_mlb). Cruz and Braun are particularly notable given that they sat for the last third of 2013, meaning fans have forgiven or forgotten about their PED use in just a few months' time.
Given all the hysteria and moralizing in the media about PEDs, you'd expect fans would blacklist self-acknowledged users from the All-Star ballot. The fact that fans are instead voting in droves for said cheaters speaks volumes about where they actually stand on the issue.
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If the 2014 All-Star Game were held today, a handful of players suspended for using performance enhancing drugs would start the game. Nelson Cruz, Melky Cabrera, and Ryan Braun — all of whom were linked to Biogenesis and temporarily booted from baseball — are in place to start, per the latest (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/robinson-cano-nelson-cruz-take-leads-at-their-positions-in-al-all-star-voting?ymd=20140602&content_id=77866044&vkey=news_mlb) fan vote tallies (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/troy-tulowitzki-holds-big-lead-at-shortstop-in-nl-all-star-voting?ymd=20140528&content_id=77175564&vkey=news_mlb). Cruz and Braun are particularly notable given that they sat for the last third of 2013, meaning fans have forgiven or forgotten about their PED use in just a few months' time.
Given all the hysteria and moralizing in the media about PEDs, you'd expect fans would blacklist self-acknowledged users from the All-Star ballot. The fact that fans are instead voting in droves for said cheaters speaks volumes about where they actually stand on the issue.