San Francisco, CA– Having recently asked both the Philippine and Mexican people to denounce Manny Pacquiao’s decision to box Antonio Margarito, a man who was caught with a plaster of Paris block in one wrapped hand just minutes away from boxing Shane Mosley on HBO January 24, 2009.
CHEATING AGAINST A CHEATER WAS OK?
A good number of you, some narcissistic, think that it was OK to cheat against Mosley because he had used illegal drugs in order to enhance his performance in barely winning on points against Oscar De La Hoya in 2003.
AFTER ADMITTING STEROIDS, SHANE LIED FOR YEARS
Mosley knowingly used EPO (blood doping) prior to the fight, and admitted such in a videotaped deposition. I’ll get back to Mosley in a minute. A number of baseball players, even Alex Rodriguez, who had for years denied any steroid use, were forced to admit to their using performance enhancing drugs. This past week he hit home run #600 as the Yankee fans and the baseball media lauded him for the accomplishment.
CHEATING IS OK? CHEATING IS NOT OK?
Which is it? Rodriguez, Mark McGwire and other MLB players, they should have been booted out of baseball for cheating. But like Jose Canseco said, “Then you’d have to throw out about half or more of the players.” Mosley, he threatened me with lawsuits through his attorney Judd Burstein, denying he had ever taken any steroids or EPO, even though he had admitted his usage before the BALCO grand jury, testimony to which I was privy to.
JUDD’S A “LITTLE MAN” BUT WHAT ABOUT SHANE?
Mosley, who is going to fight Sergio Mora next, he is a bit of a creep in my mind. After costing me press credentials and sponsorship money, all the while lying through his teeth, Mosley was forced to admit he was a “serial liar.” If he had half a glass of class, he would have called and said, “Pedro, I ***** you over, I’m sorry.” For his usage and denial, I thought Shane should have been banned. Now at 38, he is still fighting because he was KO’d by ex-wife Jin Mosley in a divorce settlement.
MOSLEY LIKE ARUM? “LYING YESTERDAY, TELLING THE TRUTH TODAY!”
Not only did the results of Shane Mosley’s post De La Hoya II fight urine sample get destroyed in what was a “timely” manner for him, Burstein had Mosley take a Polygraph test that he passed. Let me spell this out to you so there is no mistakes in what I am saying. Burstein “hand picked” a Polygraph examiner who asked Shane was asked if he had ever knowingly taken banned performance enhancing drugs? He said, “No” and the lie detector machine that Lil’ Judd had arranged said Shane was telling the truth, when we know he wasn’t!
In this filmed 2009 deposition, Mosley admits under oath to knowingly taking EPO. That he did indeed know what it was before he took it. To that end, there is no doubt.
AMERICANS CHEAT & SMILE DOING SO!
What I was trying to get to here is that cheating is very much accepted in the United States. I can’t think of one baseball player that used and paid for it besides the idiotic Cuban born Rafael Palmeiro, who accused Congress of a witch hunt, denying his usage and then testing positive just a short time later. They ran him out of baseball on a rail. Barry Bonds, he too has been vanquished from MLB after his run with the Giants ended. The all time home run* leader is still facing Perjury charges relating to his sworn testimony.
ALEX BEING HAILED AS “GREATEST* OF ALL TIME?
Although there are two examples of apparent cheaters who are through with baseball, guys like Alex Rodriguez are currently the toast of the league. In closing, Americans not only cheat in sports, they are greatly rewarded for doing so. The current testing system for MLB has hoops that Sigfried & Roy’s crazed white tiger (the one that bit him) could jump through. Although I do think using PED use is scary in boxing, the use of EPO and or steroids or agents of such in any sport is reprehensible.
NOT THE EXCEPTION TO CHEAT, RATHER THE RULE
If there was any morality or integrity here in the United States, if we operated on anything but the concept of money rules, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig would have suspended everyone involved and put asterisks in the record books. In my mind, this was worse for the game than the 1919 Black Sox throwing the World Series. But like so many things that are wrong about the American way of life, money prevailed over what is right!
Pedro Fernandez