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<blockquote data-quote="78pike" data-source="post: 806544" data-attributes="member: 4030"><p>To me personally it feels like the major sports have gone the way of professional wrestling where it is about the almighty entertainment dollar and no longer about the purity of sport. As a kid growing up we all knew that wrestling wasn't "real" and held on to the belief that traditional sports were governed by a set of rules that all had to be followed. Slowly that pipe dream burst. For me it started with the NBA where it became obvious that the stars of the game could travel, push off to get a shot (see Jordan's game winning shot against the Cavs), etc. The traditional rules didn't apply to the superstars. Then came the debacle of MLB with the steroids where one year Barry Bonds was a skinny slugger and the following year he looked like the Hulk....the Nature Boy of baseball. Of course Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire took that to a complete new level. Finally college sports and their "pay for play" status complete the disillusionment of modern day sports. Despite all of that, I will continue to root hard for the Yellow Jackets and try to ignore all the hypocrisy and cheating that dominate all of the sports. I may be naive but I would like to believe that we won't stoop to those levels. God forbid we be like UNC football and cheat like hell for years and still suck...until Mack got there and showed them how to cheat the right way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="78pike, post: 806544, member: 4030"] To me personally it feels like the major sports have gone the way of professional wrestling where it is about the almighty entertainment dollar and no longer about the purity of sport. As a kid growing up we all knew that wrestling wasn't "real" and held on to the belief that traditional sports were governed by a set of rules that all had to be followed. Slowly that pipe dream burst. For me it started with the NBA where it became obvious that the stars of the game could travel, push off to get a shot (see Jordan's game winning shot against the Cavs), etc. The traditional rules didn't apply to the superstars. Then came the debacle of MLB with the steroids where one year Barry Bonds was a skinny slugger and the following year he looked like the Hulk....the Nature Boy of baseball. Of course Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire took that to a complete new level. Finally college sports and their "pay for play" status complete the disillusionment of modern day sports. Despite all of that, I will continue to root hard for the Yellow Jackets and try to ignore all the hypocrisy and cheating that dominate all of the sports. I may be naive but I would like to believe that we won't stoop to those levels. God forbid we be like UNC football and cheat like hell for years and still suck...until Mack got there and showed them how to cheat the right way. [/QUOTE]
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