FALLEN HEROES©

Greeting Hairballers,

Considered an OMG but that didn’t seem enough.

First let me say I am against PEDs in all sports.

Right now, I feel as though I have been sucked into the vortex of a time machine that has taken me back to a period that bounces between the Salem Witch Trails and the McCarthy Era.   In the past, I have called for Major League Baseball to clean up its act and keep it out of the courts.  Now they have interrogated players, paid witnesses, cut deals and metaphorically paraded the “guilty” in chains through the streets.  It’s sad to realize that if you work on Wall Street and cheat, you get a bonus and if you do the same in sports, you get suspended.  Yes, penalties were warranted but when a player is singled out for extraordinarily harsh treatment because powers to be wish to make an example, they don’t like him or he gets paid too much, I get queasy.

I may lose some friends and have been screamed at by casual observers of baseball because of my insistence that no one is more equal than another.  I hope they enjoyed their orgasm of schadenfraude.  Me?  I am eclipsed by sorrow.  

FALLEN HEROES©

         FMHorner             

faded dreams and

glory lost

disillusioned and confused

in the ethers,

an echo of angry voices

dissolves to silence

all is dark

the unraveling

complete

honor eclipsed

by promises not kept

faith is cast aside

legacies,

forever marred

by ignominious behavior,

now falling stars

that leave a scar in indigo

and then are gone

there is no triumph

in fallen heroes

Hairballs and so be it.

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