Rooting for Laundry

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Let's review:

Ryan Fraud of the Milwaukee Brewers won the MVP of the League in 2012. He signed a $150 million contract.

He also tested positive for steroids immediately after the season ended.

He fought back.

He denied taking anything illegal and said the guy who collected his specimen was the imposter and was out to get him. He got the poor guy fired from his job. People were whispering but Fraud held a press conference and denied that he did anything other than polish his talents.

Cut to the middle of 2013.

Fraud was caught again.

This time he was quiet about the denials. When it was all about to be publicized he got injured. Then he took a 60-game suspension.

The fans in Milwaukee felt duped. There were jerseys in the park the rest of the year with the Braun taped over on the back of the jerseys.

Fraud was real quiet for a long time.

Then he apologized for his 'mistakes'. He supposedly apologized to the test-taker, but the apology was as lame as his denials in the first place.

He called himself an artist.

Whatever.

Who gives a crap?

Another cheater in a long line of cheaters.

Except yesterday...

...Fraud came up to bat in the first inning.

His first at-bat since the suspension.

And the poor clueless bastards in Milwaukee stood and cheered for him.

A standing ovation!

Someone please enlighten me...

...what the hell is wrong with people?

Is this the message we send to our kids?

Cheat, lie, be a fraud...we love you anyway?

Why?

Because he's wearing a shirt that says 'Milwaukee' across the front?

I don't get it.

(And before you hit me with A-Rod or Clemens when they were Yankees...I never once stood and cheered either of those idiots).

Here's hoping Ryan Fraud hits about .210 this year.

I just wanna' see if they cheer him then.

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