by Charles Campbell
Hey buddy you must have had a rough weekend. Did your wife take off with your brother, or maybe your shorts are just a little too tight. Anyway you seem a bit negative. First of all, it's a stretch to suggest Rogers' substance had anything to do with the Cards' winning the series. Rogers removed the stuff from his hand after the first batter and went on to handle the Cardinal batters the rest of the game for their only win. He didn't pitch again in the series, so it's hard to see how that incident caused the Tigers to lose. Too bad you're down on MW. She seems like a nice kid. Yea she screwed up on a couple recent rules violations, but again to suggest that there's a connection between that and her recent poor play is a stretch. Do you always associate events this way? Seems like pretty strange logic to me. Go find yourself a nice slump buster and you'll feel better.

by Clayton Lloyd-Jones
You may be right about the effect that cheating or perceived cheating has on your psyche. I played golf in a tournament with a guy who "found" his ball in the rough nowhere near where he hit his original. He finished with a par on the hole and was 3 strokes ahead of me and his other playing partner. When the other guy handed him his original ball on the next tee he went 8 over for the next 3 holes and disappeared from the radar screen. No words were exchanged but the result was plain to see.

by Dennis Roddy
While I in no way defend what Kenny Rogers did (or allegedly did), I think that comparing the two, and their (and in Rogers' case, his team's) collapse are like apples and oranges.
On the one hand you have Rogers', a baseball player, which means he is in a TEAM sport. Not only that, as a pitcher, his performance (and his cheating) directly affect only one game. In no other team sport are particular athletes more isolated than pitchers are in baseball. They don't even share the same bench when not on the playing. I honestly believe that any repercussions as a result of that incident were minimal.
Wie on the other hand, has to live not only with her rules violations (which, unlike Rogers' I do not believe were intentional), but probably more importantly, the fact that she did not handle either incident with the class associated with the great players that went before her (Lopez, Nicklaus, Palmer, Player...the list goes on), or those she is competing with both in terms of tournaments (Sorenstam, Creamer etc.) and spotlight (Woods). Furthermore, and probably most significantly, her recent lack of success must be in part due to the fact that she is swimming in water WAY OVER HER HEAD. You don't learn to swim by diving into shark infested waters...and thats what she is trying to do...and getting eaten up by it!