Another One Bites the Dust

And so it goes on.  We’ve heard the story before.  Superstar thinks he’s above the laws and rules, does something stupid, in comes the law or authority.  And then he’s forgotten.  For what stupid reason did Gilbert Arenas feel the need to keep guns in his locker?  For the simple fact that NO ONE else does it, he should have known better.

It seems that there have been a lot of players who have hurt their careers because of stupid choices.  It trickles down, if even in the smallest sense, to the sports cards collectors.  Let’s take a look at a list of some big stars who have let their fans down.

• Michael Vick – his football cards were fed to their owner’s dogs.
• Roger Clemens – Steroids
• Mark McGwire – Steroids
• Barry Bonds – Steroids
• Tiger Woods – Cheated on his wife.  If you think that’s ok, don’t ever get married!
• Larry Johnson – Woman beater, career could have been…
• Plaxico Burress – Dummy with a gun, another career that could have been…

This is just a short look into the sports world.  Do people in the real world actually behave like this?  Maybe I should look into starting an Accountant Cards collection.

Mark McGwire Comes Out of the Closet

No big deal eh?  My brother did it too.  Oh wait, we’re talking about steroids?  Nevermind…

I talked with my girlfriend and her brother about Mark McGwire’s announcement that he had used steroids during his record breaking year, and weirdly enough, it just didn’t seem like that big of deal to me.

It’s kind of like, been there, done that.

We know they all cheated, and we know our passionate sports fandom of the 90s is tainted forever.  The day Roger Clemens choked in the courthouse was the day that I started caring a lot less about baseball.  I watched as my idol, the greatest pitcher ever (in my former eyes) stood up in front of our appointed government officials and lied his butt off.

Yes I do know that is unproven, but I don’t believe him.  As much as I want to think that every time I stared at the Rocket mowing down hitters, he was doing it without performance enhancing drugs.

I can’t do it though.  Zack Greinke is my new favorite player.  I can deal with some social anxiety.

I think that Mark McGwire baseball cards will suffer some pain from this happening.  Sure, there will still be some die-hards that keep on collecting the former St. Louis Cardinalsfirst baseman, but from personal experience, after putting my large Roger Clemens collection to the side and forgetting about it, I’m not so sure there will be nearly as many sports card collectors pursuing the latest admitted cheater’s cards.