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I have a theory which I call the "Cowboy Theory". Remember back in the mid-1990s when the Dallas Cowboys were a great team and an annual Super Bowl contender? Well, they also had many guys from that team who were arrested, popped for drugs, domestic violence, etc. Most fans and people didn't care when they were winning Super Bowls. It was only after they started losing when the fans and the media started to turn on them.
It says to me that when you're winning that most people will look away at your bad behavior or they'll tolerate it much more so long as you've got talent. But once you start losing, that's when they turn on you. And in the case of Barry Bonds, he's hated everywhere else in America except for San Francisco. Bonds gets standing ovations and cheers in San Francisco. Even O.J. Simpson gets booed in Buffalo.
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