Comments on: Will Transparency Destroy Us?

By: Timmy Pea

Timmy Pea — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:59:28 +0000

I think it’s easier to scrub a non-player type. It’s hard to ignore the great feats of O. J. Simpson or Pete Rose, or just to pretend they never happened. College sports does that a lot by retroactively forfeiting games and such and for the most part I don’t like it. This Conlin stuff is terrible. If OJ would have copped a plea and spent 20-25 years in jail he would get much more sympathy than Conlin or Sandusky.

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:21:12 +0000

Hah, after scanning that sentence I would never have guessed it was “holiday” that gave it away. It’s usually the use of an extraneous “u” that reveals my true colours.

Baseball is not popular in the UK, although the websites of some mainstream newspapers are starting to pay it some attention during the playoffs at least, though I suspect this is more to do with international readerships than anything. Personally speaking, I have some family in the US, and caught the bug after watching games out there, despite the inauspicious start of having a late 90′s Royals-Tigers matchup as my first game.

By: bstar

bstar — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:39:56 +0000

Timmy, thanks for jogging my memory on the Bill Conlin thing. I spent a few hours reading everything I could about the situation the other day. It’s eerie how similar it is to the Sandusky scandal in that so many people knew about it but swept it under the rug. Of course, times were different then. Sad stuff.

By: Timmy Pea

Timmy Pea — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:35:45 +0000

Regular Americans go on vacation. I was under the impression that baseball was not very popular in England. The more popular soccer is, baseball suffers. For example take the Caribbean vs. South America, or the far east vs. the middle east.

By: John Autin

John Autin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:56:07 +0000

I can’t decide which is worse — ignoring the wrongdoing, or going so far as to expunge all mention of the individual, as described in the SI link. As far as the Tennis Hall of Fame is concerned, B– H—– is now an unperson.

I think our Halls of Fame should simply add a “Disgraced” wing.