[Magodo]

I'd like to take your comment a step further, if you don't mind

> I stopped watching baseball when this scandal was uncovered.

Do you really think that this is the only scandal that's going on right now? Or that it started with this particular instance? There's probably so much going on behind the scenes since decades now that the sport has likely never been fair or clean. And this is not just baseball, it's with every sport up to and including the Olympics

I guess I'm just trying to understand why people watch sports in the first place. Because for the vast majority, it is almost ALWAYS because it's an exhibition game and/or entertainment and the notion of fair play is the last thing on their minds..

[sokoloff]

I enjoy the exhibition of skill and arms race to compete within a framework of rules.

Motor racing in particular gives me enjoyment to watch teams fighting each other and creating inventions that stretch and test the rule book, but with boundaries. Items like NASCAR’s Tiregate (doctoring the tires) are clearly beyond the line (to me and in the rule book at the time) while Penske’s fueling tower or race teams using custom air guns, different gases, or SCUBA tanks to drive their pneumatic guns are, for me, okay and legal until made illegal (as they have been now).

* https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/nothing-ben...