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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 3249103, member: 1644"]
the okay to do that has to come from the head office. I don't doubt what you're saying, when a couple teams cheating is so blatant and nothing is done to stop them I can see why other teams would start doing the same. I'm really interested to see if other clubs are outed for the same. There is a good opinion piece about it in Washington Post today

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"This scandal is a perfect illustration of why cheating in professional sports is so bad. It ruins everything. There is no way to fix the damage. And that scar across a sport’s visage is permanent, as with the World Series 101 years ago that is still known by just two words: Black Sox.

That is why it is so important to make every effort to catch cheaters and crush those who get caught with penalties that get the attention of the next person who is tempted to do the same. We never seem to understand the true weight of the phrase “integrity of the game” until some team or player tries to rip it to shreds to win.

At moments such as this, we vaguely realize that the entire construct of organized pro sports is artificial, almost a tenuously balanced house of cards. You don’t have to knock down much of the edifice before fans, also known as customers, have reason to say, “Remind me again why am I paying attention to this.”
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