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Yeah, Rose seems like a different case than the PED users. You can say the PED users are messing with the integrity of the game, specifically the "sacred" records in it, but they were trying to win. Rose's (and Jackson, in theory) gambling actually really threatens the integrity of the game by potentially trying to lose games intentionally. I'm much more sympathetic to the former than the latter.
However, I readily admit that this may be my bias because it's been the gambling rules have been that way since I was a kid versus watching PED use evolve in real time. Though it's convenient that steroids bad but amphetamines ok, and that feels like a purely generational difference, too.
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