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A great big "yes!"
Athletes want to win. Winning is the point of professional sports. Athletes will do almost anything to win. Athletes cheat. And cheating, particularly this sort of cheating, is in baseball's blood.
"The integrity of the game" is a shibboleth that appeals to politicians, the game's mandarins, and sports writers. It is a pleasant and romantic notion that has almost no grounding in reality, sad as that may be.
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History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are."
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