It is a fact of life, everyone is born either male or female. It's one of those things about you that you that is an integral part of who you are. You are either one or the other , there is no middle ground. Such is the way in New York, where you are born either a Yankees fan or a Mets fan. I happen to have been born a Yankees fan, like my father and his father before him. Growing up, in the 80's and 90's, I idolized the Yankees. They could do no wrong, even if they happened to have a bad season. In the late 90's and early 2000's, when all the steroid rumors started flying around, it was easy to point out all of the potential users on the other teams, but never the Yankees. Let those other guys juice it up, the Yankees don't need that crap. Just by the sheer act of putting on that uniform, one became a god among men and things like steroids and corked bats were for mere reserved for mortals. At least, that's how we felt back then. Sure, we all new Jose Canseco was juicing, we even joked about it, but would never seriously admit publicly that it was a possibility.
Now it is 2007, and it has been made public that both Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte have used performance enhancing drugs on a regular basis. Damn! Hearing this was like getting kicked in the nuts, watching my dog get hit by a car and finding out that Santa isn't real, all at the same time. At least it helps explain the whole bat throwing incident between Clemens and Mike Piaza a few years back. But alas, we are Yankees fans, ever resilient, and I have no doubt that we will rise above our team's tarnished reputation. I only hope that the rest of Major League Baseball and all of its fans around the country can do the same and save America's pastime from itself.
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