IT'S STILL ABOUT WHAT'S RIGHT.

Were you statisfied with the outcome of the first OJ Simpson trial? How about the debacle involving Roger Clemons? Do you believe that A-Rod will beat the rap in this latest  matter?

Do you  believe Lance Armstong will ever do any jail time for what he did - including his law suit against a man who clearly was just trying to save a great sport - and whom Armstrong  - and his attorneys - attacked as if , the accuser - not Armstrong was the bad guy?

If you weren't don't waste your time in reading anything more.

This is a difficult subject for a blog. The reason being is that if we had done anything wrong to the extent that the defendants "might' have done - and we could afford their services - we would have run - not walked - to secure the services of the attorneys defending them . That is, if we, had the financial resources- to hire them.

Yeah, that would be a bundle - one heckuva lot more than the government and the MLB or the federal government would apparently be willing to pay an equally intelligent group of attorneys to prove their case.

You see, what we do with our adulation of athletes is to give so many of our heroes a "get out of jail free" card. What about the ones - the majority - who are not cheating?

 Do you remember what it was like to have to stay after school in detention because the kid who threw the spitball at the teacher was unwilling to admit his guilt - and because we didn't want to be a (fill in the blank).

 We so desperately want to have these athletes whom we have rushed toward  or possibly stood in line to get an autograph - maybe even for both ourself and our kids - perhaps on a signed paper or piece of clothing  - a tee shirt or out of desperation, even a bra  - whatever, from whom we are willing to accept almost any outrageos behavior as long as they continue to represent  our sports team - with whom we non-athletes, wannabees, or has-beens  vicariously claim we have some association with that specific athlete - or team.

While we do this we have the gall to make our kids change their clothing if their shirt or blouse celebrates the latest rap artists of the day - some of whom are allowed to use the N-word in impunity - without fear of repudiation..

And, when they ( our jock heroes) do wrong - as often will happen with athletes who see our adulation as that  "get out of jail free card" - our first response to someone like an A-Rod is to blame the authorities - and not the athlete.

If a legal defense team is able to prevail and keep their client our of jail - (read A-Rod) it may not be a win-win proposition for either the law - or our society..

It's not only the prosecution who are so convenient for us to blame for failing to fulfill our latent desire to punish someone  -  it's us.

Maybe it's time for someone in authority to hire and pay adequately bright prosecuter attorneys with equal skills - to try these cases and teach our kids "it's not right to do wrong."

 I truly believe fair and effective jurisprudence was never meant to be a tug of war decided by which team could effectively hire the best ringer. In my opinion it's still about what's right and what's wrong.

For all of the athletes who are accused of doing wrong in this recent scandal - only one, A-Rod,  has decided to attack the system.

Why? Because due to our adulation and willingness to support paying him an outrageous salary - in a vain attempt to find a hero who is not as tainted in our eyes as those predecessors who we are sure doped up  - he can afford to do so.

How in the name of everything that is holy can we call this "justice"?

Forget about the price of the expensive shirt you no longer are proud to wear but reluctantly are now willing to throw in the trashbin . What about the value system we need and want to teach our kids and grandkids?

Let's face it. There's a lot of blame to go around here.