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53 Responses to “Don’t Blame A-Rod; Blame Baseball, Blame Us”

1. Tim Malcolm Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 12:41 am

   I apologize in advance for the length, and for the non-Phillie focus, but many of us have felt inclined to comment on this issue now that it’s back at the forefront.

2. dan Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:23 am

   I respectfully disagree here, Tim. Baseball, for many players as well as fans, is a way of life. As cheesy as it sounds, it is true and will be as long as baseball is played. Those players who decide to cheat by using steroids or otherwise, have tarnished this way of life. I agree that baseball is much to blame for their terrible approach to handling the steroid era. However, Rodriquez is equally to blame here and absolutely does not deserve to have his plaque hanging in the Hall.

   And for the record, I think Rodriguez lied to us before, and is still lying. Yes, he has come clean, but claims that he didn’t know exactly what he was taking, and that he never was connected to a steroid dealer by Jose Canseco. I think Canseco’s book is a lot of fluff, but Rodriguez is and will always be a liar and cheater in my book.

3. adam Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:28 am

   off topic post but I just got a chance to look at the baseball prospectus projections for 09 and they have the phillies finishing 3rd (!) in the NL East at 88-74 behind the Muts and the Braves. I have no idea how well BP has projected in the past but coming from Nate Silver who nailed the election, it has me worried.

4. dan Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:30 am

   hahaha how did the braves get up there? derek lowe? gimme a break. BP probably doesn’t have two factors in their equation that are big for us: guts and leadership

5. Bonezy Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:33 am

   Excellent piece Tim. I do believe that we are just as guilty as teh players because we are as greedy to have a winning team. If he were a Phillie I’m sure we would all be defending him. I know I would. He did what he thought he had to do, and I am also sure that everyone else has had to make tough decisions that maybe miay have not turned out to be good ones. He is human and is entitled to make mistakes. At least he is man enough to stand up and del with it. Too bad the rest of the players that made mistakes can not do the same.

6. Wilson Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am

   Love it Tim! and I agree 100%.

7. Tom G Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:49 am

   Baseball, it is said, is the perfect game…the numbers add up. From home to home it is 360 degrees…we fixate on stats…it is what links generations. Home plate is still 60′6″…Since 1993, we have seen the RELATIVISM of baseball, as with much of society. ARoid is not any different, but more of the same…
   To balance out the game for those of us who still care about credibility I would offer the (*).
   Players who set, or acheived record results need to be identified, and identified by an astrick.
   I am less concerned about WHY this was rather than WHETHER it was…and it was…so, we must deal with it.

   The culture cannot and will not change until the punishment is tough enough to limit the appeal…thus prohibiting entrance into the HALL should serve as the rebuke for all the $$$ thrown at the players, inducing them to cheat.

   The end game is preserving the INTEGRITY of the GAME…isn’t that what Giamatti said?

   I live by a set of rules, and have forfeited much as a result…I do not ask others to act accordingly, but we can work together to change that culture by lessening the appeal

8. Don M Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:51 am

   I can’t give him credit for being “man enough to stand up and deal with it” …..

   He had the chance to to do that in numerous interviews before.. and he denied it, and lied about it. NOW that there is proof, he is finally coming clean with it, but he has no other choice.. he failed a drug test.

   He has no chance to argue that, so he admitted what he did because he was caught with proof…

9. Jeff M Says:
   February 10th, 2009 at 11:52 am

   Well said!!! I couldn’t agree more. Bigger, faster, stronger is the American way. And it is so much easier to point a finger to say someone else is to blame than to look internally to see how we were at fault. Steroids were a part of baseball…. and now they are not. Let’s all just move on.

10. dan Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    good point there, Don

11. Richie Allen Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    I agree with Don M …
    …The only reason he came clean this time is because he is a corporation, a large business with many endorsements.
    He no doubt would have lied all along but he comes clean now because HE GOT CAUGHT !.
    If he didnt tell the truth this time I’m sure those endorsements run the risk of going down the drain.

12. DD Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    Great article Tim. For me, the worst part of professional sports has been watching it become more about “entertainment”.

13. Sean P. Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Please write a longer article next time, and maybe i’ll read it.

14. gabriel Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    nice perspective tim, i was kinda in limbo with my thoughts since SI came out with it, him lying about it only tarnishes his image. it is well known that these guys are doing what they can to grab an edge… at one point (i think) the phils were the only active roster without a guy on the mitchell report (anyone confirm this?)
    so… shawn merriman? rodney harrison? nothing? we’re just gonna turn our heads on that one huh… yea, what i thought…

15. Tim Malcolm Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Sean, don’t waste our time.

16. Evan Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Good article it portrays the human side of steroids and baseball, but I disagree with a few things.

    There is no reason to believe ARod only took steroids from 2001-2003. Yeah his numbers improved, but they were already nasty and he should have been improving with age. He told a blatant lie in 2007 on national TV about steroid use. If Bonds, McGwire, Clemens, and dozens of others are any example, baseball players are eager to preserve their legacy and image of integrity.

    I don’t know what ARod’s motivation was. It could easily be pure greed instead of cracking under the pressure. If ARod idolized an everyday, hard working player like Ripken, why would he betray the kind of example Cal set? Its more pleasent to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the man is making a crapload of money and I’m sure he was quite happy to take those large contracts.

    He’s human and has followed the America Way of success at all costs. We can’t redo a decade of tainted baseball, the numbers aren’t going away. For a sport with a great history that means so much to millions, the saddest part is that there is no good way to fix things. I like what Tom G said. Baseball is a meaningful tradition, and the only positive we can get out of this is that we can make sure wide-spread abuse never happens again.

17. Justin Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    i agree with Don that the only reason he came clean was because he got leaked out. I’m with Curt Schilling the fans, the players the owners the media are always going to be skeptical about a players season or career unless the names of those players that used (The 104 names that are being hidden from the 2003 drug test) are made public knowledge. Put the cheaters out there in the open so they can be branded cheaters and the players that are naturally talented and don’t rely on chemists to enhance their play can be cheered for their accomplishments. It’s not the fans fault players cheated to get an edge and there shouldn’t be blame on us because the only reason the player used is to line his pockets with money.

18. Tim Malcolm Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Tom, I can’t agree with you. Baseball is not perfect. No matter what people try to say to make it perfect, it’s just not. And I love this game.

    When the 1918 Sox threw the World Series, Hall-eligible members were stripped of that privilege. The game continued to be imperfect.

    When Pete Rose was found guilty of gambling on baseball, he was stripped of a Hall privilege. The game continued to be imperfect.

    There will ALWAYS be ways to stain the game of baseball. There are ALWAYS ways to show its imperfection. Baseball is not this greater-than-thou thing. It’s a game. But that’s my opinion.

    If you want to uphold integrity of the game, and of something as imperfect as baseball, the best thing to do is be honest. In that then, I agree that A-Rod should’ve been truthful from the start, but baseball needs to be honest with itself, too.

19. Geoff Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    You know what? come on now…everytime someone does something wrong someone comes out and says “well, its not really their fault.” No, thats whats wrong with our whole society. There are obviously several dimensions of people to blame in this. The league, the players association, the agents, the fans, AND the players who did it. Yes you can blame all those other people to a degree, but fail to blame the man who actually made the final decision to do it is insane.

    Would you blame Madoff or the system that enabled him? Youre going to blame both.

    Would you blame Blagojevic or the corrupt Chicago (now nationwide) system of bribery & corruption (A term first patented by Julius Caesar) that enabled him? You blame both.

    The reason our entier society is a runaway train of corruption, dishonestly, exploitation, and outright rabid lawless, value-less, and sometimes even outright wreckless overt criminal activity at all levels of society and government is PRECISELY because the wrong-doers at each level, each case, and at each link in the chain are NOT being held to account in some way.

    How many Madoffs do you think there are? There are hundreds if not more all across America and the world. Anytime someone guarantees you a 15-20% return every year on a long-term investment its usually a ponzi scheme of some sort. But nothing is said about those people because anybody above the level of a common street thug is treated with a different set of standards and rules.

    Baseball is not much different. If you want this to stop, then you have to punish the people who test positive…including A-Rod. A Permanent ban from Hall of Fame would suit this situation perfectly. They threw out Pete Rose, and youre seeing McGwire getting blackballed now. Same with Bonds. And hoepfully this will continue. They need to blackball this guy to send a message. No games anymore. If only more than a few token bad guys got punished for the things they have done in a government setting we would surely not be in the position we are today…

    This is a microcosm of our society as a whole, and unless theres a sea change ini holding people to account for their actions then why waste the effort at all?

20. Tim Malcolm Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    This is the problem, Geoff. You’re comparing steroids in baseball to corruption in politics … and criminals in society. These are not on the same plane, by any stretch. Everybody loves taking this just stand for a game. It’s a game. It is quite different.

    Where I’m comparing baseball is with America through time. Both baseball and America have always had their imperfections. Even in its very beginnings, America had corruption and wrongfulness. Nothing has changed. Just as baseball was never really pure. At least at the competitive level.

    The sad thing is if we actually took all the energy we had in debating, fighting and trying the system as it relates to a competitive sport, and funnel that energy into politics and society, we might see some positive change.

21. BurrGundy Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Though I love baseball and have been a Phils’ fan for 50 plus years, I do not pretend that the sport is noble or equitable. To stop steroid use, baseball needs to ban players who test positive for banned substances, including dope and steroids. The commissioners office is simply too soft. Where is Judge Landis when we need him — though this hard-ass attitude may hurt some players and teams, the overall result will be to clean up the sport.

22. ped Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    I think it’s time we focus and raise up the players who played the game right and stop dwelling on the Bonds’ and A-rods. There are so many gifted athletes in the league that should become the new faces of baseball. It’s not fair to group the true athletes with the others using labels like, “steroid era.” So let’s lift up the Chase Utleys of the game.

23. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Do we know that Cal Ripken never took anything?? I’m sure something had to help his aches and pains over the years… must have been some potent Advil he was taking..

    Anyone that gets a chance listen to Jayson Stark on the 950espn website.. they have his interview from today on Mike & Mike show.. makes some GREAT points about all the older players took “GREENIES”, and admitted it and we don’t think anything about that… there are probably more players that took “GEENIES” in the Hall of Fame than didn’t take them..

    and he says, “the Hall of Fame is a museum, It’s not the Vatican… How can it not reflect what happened [in the steroid era]“…

    Its a great interview, a MUST listen

    http://www.sr950.com/Audio/tabid/183/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3069/ESPN-Baseball-Analyst-Jayson-Stark.aspx

24. Geoff Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Well I disagree with the first part, I think its a common theme in our society in general, even if it is manifested in different ways in each segment of the society. Both are far from perfect though, thats for sure. I just happen to believe that everything going on thats wrong on a national scale, in all facets of society, is manifested in some way in some segment of your local society. It wouldnt have become a national problem if it wasnt prevalent at the local level first and spread throughout the different layers of the system.

    But the latter statement is exactly on the money. Americans get mad that their favorite football team lost but not that their poltiicans are stealing, or at least misusing, trillions of dollars of their tax money and then some. All that lawlessness is going on everyday on a national, state, municipal, and local levels, but God forbid the Texas Longhorns get left out of the national title game in football – time to freak out.

    Wouldnt our country be a much better place if people cared as much about the people that control their society as they do about sports and entertainment?

    I mean Michael Phelps gets caught doign bong rips and America freaks out, meanwhile the lawlessness marches on everywhere else without a whisper of aptly scaled (peaceful) and directed discontent leaking through into the mainstream.

25. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Among the things I think about baseball… but won’t ever fully understand.

    Is how a GAME, became a BUSINESS… if you think of it only as a game, you will never understand how and why players are traded, and how your favorite superstar can leave your team for another.

    If you think of it only as a business… what is the fun in that??

    Baseball has changed, but I still love the game

26. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Ped.. the other things you need to think about is that those EAS supplements and whatever that Utley takes weren’t around back then, but do the same thing.. provide nutrients to muscles to help you recover faster from workouts, etc..

    They just didn’t have the same stuff back then, and Baseball didn’t have a ban of the stuff that did work for the players..

    Obviously, the players took things that were Illegal.. but I drank before I was 21, and smoked things I shouldn’t have..

    I don’t think the players should go to jail or anything (Bonds lying under oath is a different story).. but I think that all the players that tested positive should have to admit to what they did.. make it public knowledge, and then let the public form their own opinions and lets move on..

    Those supplements don’t make it any easier to actually hit the baseball, do they make it carry that much farther out of the ballpark? Or do they just let your muscles heel that much faster so that you can workout more, but not feel the effects, and since you’ve worked out more, you’ll muscle the ball out of the park that much easier.. Im not sure exactly what the different “drugs” do or did for the players.. but there is no simple answer, explanation, or solution to what happened

27. NEPA Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    adam,

    Baseball Prospectus 2008 Projected Performance:

    Mets 93-69
    Braves 88-74
    Phillies 88-74
    Nationals 77-85
    Marlins 74-88

    Clearly, these guys can be way off. I don’t put too much trust behind anybody’s predictions. A baseball season is too long with too many variables, we’ll just have to wait and see how it all plays out.

28. william Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    yes tim baseball is a game and nothing more but there is a more serious point to be made here. you eluded to the fact that as a kid a-rod looked wide eyed at his baseball heros it is those very kids and the lessons shown them that concern me. if all you have to do is say your sorry and not face any consequences and still get get rewarded with fame,records,contracts,money and immortalized in the hall of fame? to me that just seems wrong why even have rules,why even ban any drugs you can guess what players in the past have taken or not but when you have proof they did thats a differnt story! believe me i will be telling my children who i feel deserves thier respect and why and who doesn’t which is after all the responsability of every parent to do. but give free passes because players feel they are under pressure to perform please after all it is just a game!

29. Manny Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Accepting that the game is not “good,” “pure,” or “perfect” does not mean we have to excuse A-Rod for what he did. Part of the blame has to fall on the guy for being part of the this whole mess.

30. Geoff Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    Looks like his age wasnt the only thing Miguel Tejada was lying out…theyre going to come after him now.

    The Mets are not going to win 93 games, tahts outrageous. The Phillies are more likely to win 93 than the Mets are. Id even say the Braves would win 93 more likely than the Mets could…

31. NEPA Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Geoff, those are the projected numbers for last season, 2008. But apparently they have us finishing third again this season too. Ridiculous.

32. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    Didn’t the Mets win the East last year?? Judging by their fans comments on here, I’d swear they were the best team in history of the game!

33. Jason B. Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Tim, great column. I am a drug and alcohol addictions counselor and I deal with issues like this everyday. If someone is habitually using a drug whether it’s cocaine, alcohol, or steroids, there is often an underlying psychological problem. I do not doubt that this is the case as far as the steroid scandal is concerned. Look at Barry Bonds and now A-Rod. My professional opinion is that both of these gentleman suffer a narcissitic personality disorder. They become so isolated from a society by being placed on a such a high pedastal that they feel pressures that we as fans just simply cannot relate to. They are so isolated that they have a very selfish view of themselves. But here is the problem. Often because of thier lack of control in thier life, they will do anything to control something. In this case, they wanted to control thier own body, even at a risk to thier health. I doubt that Sammy Sosa started to take steroids just so he could break a homerun record. He probably just wanted to control something all while feeding the ego that us as a society gave him.
    The Baseball fan in me wants so badly to condem these people as worthless criminals, and to an extent I have done so. I want them left out of the HOF and thier records wiped clean. However, as a drug counselor I see that these are not bad people, they have simply made bad choices. Thier only crime was making bad choices in a very public arena. None of us know what it is like to live in fishbowl like A-Rod does. We all feel pressure to perform at our jobs, but we know that our job performance will not make or break the company that signs my paycheck(for the most part). A-Rod essentially ressurrected a franchise.
    The worst thing A-Rod can do now is make excuses. He came clean. Now he has to move on and repair the damage that he caused to his family and teamates and employers. He doesn’t owe us anything. But, if he really wanted to show he learned from his mistake, he should do a PSA telling kids the detriment that drug use in any form can cause to your life.

34. Amanda Orr Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    Good article Tim.

35. Jeff Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Stop writing tim. YOU ARE WRONG. Get a life loser. Aroid has to take 100 percent of the blame. He knew what he was doing to cheat. Plus he was taking them in NY. The only reason he admited he was wrong, he was caught with his panties at Maddonas house. Get a life timmy boy….

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37. Richie Allen Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    If some players have always taken improvement enhancing substances over the years(greenies,advil,steroids etc).And if some players always will take them to gain some edge,or deal with a disorder,until they are caught.
    Then it is only logical to expell those who get nabbed.
    Can you forgive those who have a GOOD EXCUSE?(And whats a good excuse?)(And who determines a good/bad one?)
    How can we let go the fact that he did the steroids in 01-03,but that was ok because he HAD TO LIE,he was pressured at the time.
    I dont even know if I’m stating the situation clearly…but it just seems so wrong.

38. NEPA Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    It’s really easy for all of us to get on him when I think a lot of us would have done the same thing. If there was a way to immediately improve how you perform at work, considering many of your coworkers were doing it and receiving awards/raises, I think many of us would risk it and try it.

    I’m not trying to say this makes what he did right or that he isn’t still very much to blame for his own actions, I’m just saying that we’re all human – and considering the amount of pressure to perform, it can push people do to things they normally wouldn’t do.

    We see the same thing in the business world. There is tons of pressure on businesses to perform well and meet investor expectations. When they don’t, they sometimes make very risky decisions to make up for it.

    If you are truly 100% sure you wouldn’t take PED’s in his exact situation, then your definitely more ethical and mentally tough than most, including me. I’d like to think I’d make the right decision, but I’m not so sure.

39. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    Obviously what he did was wrong… but you can’t punish people for what wasn’t banned at the time.

    I think that the post-Strike Shortned Season should be known as “THE STEROID ERA” and all the records should still stand, and all the players that played in this era should be included in the Hall of Fame, and the record-books, etc..

    I don’t feel bad for A-Rod, he cheated the game, and probably didn’t need to… he was THAT good before the steroids, but he’ll forever has this held against him.. same way that Barry Bonds will.. to me, it doesn’t change the fact that they are some of the best baseball players of all time. They cheated, they should have that on their permanent records, and let people think of them what they want.

    Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, etc.. should be in there too.. and there should be explanations as to what happened OFF the field with all of these players because it is now part of the History of Baseball..

40. Georgie Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    It’s time people started taking responsibility for the choices they make in life. It’s easy to use the excuse that everyone’s doing it, why shouldn’t I? There’s not one player out there who took this stuff that didn’t know it was wrong, yet we’re supposed to forgive them or just look the other way? What about the guys who played it straight, do they get rewarded for their integrity? Quite the opposite, they end up with lower numbers and less money. I could maybe understand a young guy just coming up who is naive and influenced by others to take PED’s once or twice, but when you do it for years, or the bulk of your career, that’s inexcusable.

    I have to agree with Geoff that this is a microcosm of our society, I see it in my small town where the highschool football team is the most important thing, we have a saying “bleachers, not teachers”. The players get away with stuff that other students are punished for, they are treated like gods or something. When kids are getting passes at that level just because they play a sport, it’s creating someone who expects that kind of treatment the rest of his life.

    And one of the more ridiculous things going on right now is the Michael Phelps bong-gate. They have arrested eight people who were at the party, smoking the dreaded ganja, and the cops are now in possession of the infamous bong, as the owner tried to sell it on e-bay for $100,000. Obviously not a PED (unless you’re having a food eating contest), who gives a diddly crap if he was smoking weed?

41. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    I tried that performance-enhancer for a Wing-Bowl before…. the wings tasted great, but I moved much slower than my fellow competitors.

42. Georgie Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    haha, but I bet dem wings tasted mighty yummy!

43. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Yea I didn’t make it past the 1st round.. but every single one that I ate got counted as a “clean wing” … I don’t mess around

44. Phillie South Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Aroid is a cheat and a liar. I lived in Dallas when he signed and for his first 2 years. He talks of the enormous pressure he faced. Nobody in Dallas cares about the Rangers and nobody cared about A Rod. They only care about the Cowboys. And then he expects us to believe he quits using as he enters the relaxing atmosphere in New York.

45. Jason B. Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    Ganja as a performance enhancing product for Wing Bowl?!? You guys are friggin hilarious. Hey Don, what was your stunt to get into wing bowl?

46. Brett Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Great article, Tim.

47. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    it wasn’t THE wing bowl… it was A “wing bowl” .. I think I ate 25 in 5 minutes, but all of them counted, some guys ate like 50+, some guys thought they ate 40, but most of them still had meat on the bones

    I was just too slow..

    BACK TO BASEBALL,

48. Don M Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    I thought the A-Rod interview yesterday was a joke.. good question by Gammons, but all A-Rod kept saying was that he was sorry, he was an idiot, and people should look at his season when he was 20 years old, and look at 2007… and look to the future, etc..

    I lost a lot of respect for him..

    I won’t be surprised one bit when Jeter tells the world that he used them too after all the media gathers in Spring Training… he’ll then go down as a savior, because he’ll be the first to give himself up for “the good of the game”

49. Manny Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Georgie you are absolutely right. I hear ya.

50. clktwr14 Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    Just a thought for everyone, what is the common bond between A-Rod, McGwire, and Bonds. Scott Boras, a man who feels players should be paid ridiculious amounts of money, and he rakes in what about 15- 20 % of there pay, hmmm that’s a interesting Ponzi Scheme……

51. KM Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    Yea, I guess we are to blame because we personally shot him up with steroids.

    I hate this BS that we are to blame, or MLB is to blame. Yes, we love to see homeruns, and yes, MLB allowed players to get away with murder for years, but nobody personally injected or fed these guys steroids. The blame lies solely on the player that MADE THE DECISION to take steroids to try to gain a competitive edge.

    These players have no excuse in my opinion, and deflecting blame is cowardly and juvenile.

52. Ed R. Says:
    February 11th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Love the site, and happy to read the cri de coeur (not, one hopes, written while on writing-enhancing drugs), but you really shouldn’t be referring to anything about Cal Ripken as “infamous”.

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