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identify7There is no innocence in baseball, and there never was.
I don't care if it is kids learning about gambling by flipping cards or buying a pack and getting lucky with a high value insert -or- a professional athlete being banned from the sport for life because he got caught doing something illegal.
Its all luck + politics.
The only thing which counts is what counts. And so far, there have been very few "do-overs" in baseball. ie. if you strike out on a spitball, you have struck out. The pitcher may be thrown out of the game, but you have struck out.
Everything Bonds, Clemens, Rose, etc. has ever done in baseball counts. And I applaud them for that, eventhough I realize some of the methods used may be questionable. But that applies to lots of guys, for lots of years.