Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Just Sentence

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

Just that cheating and unethical behavior in sports is not a new thing and  
has been going on since the dawn of sports.  I have an  autographed photo of 
baseball's "Shot Heard Round the World" when Bobby  Thomson of the New York 
Giants hit a home run off of Ralph Branca of the  Brooklyn Dodgers to win the 
1951 
National League pennant at the Polo  Grounds.  
 
It was considered an heroic feat until several years later it was revealed  
that the Giants had a guy posted in center field with a pair of binoculars to  
steal the catcher's signs.  While Thomson still had to hit a clutch home  run 
to win the game, it just may have been a little bit easier knowing that the  
next pitch coming his way was going to be a fastball.
 
John
 
 
In a message dated 9/14/2007 8:46:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
mesa_mauricio [at] yahoo.com writes:

I  commend F1, it is a way more just sentence than what
the New England  Patriots got for cheating.  These days
there is no ethical standard  left in any kind of
sport.  Whether its doping for the Olympics or  Tour de
France, or steroids in baseball or tainted refereeing
in the  NBA, cheating has become the standard in
sports.  That is why I rarely  watch sports anymore,
its all pretty reprehensible.


 



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