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I think the reason people want to see him go down is because of what you said: he didn't need to do what he is accused of doing.
By the reports that have come out since, he saw what McGwire and Sosa did and got jealous and greedy.
I can see him ending up a lot like Pete Rose. Someone who's greatness as a player goes unquestioned, but who's questionable moral compass and refusal to accept what they did leads to their abandonment by society.
(I could include OJ as well, but his issues are so far beyond the sports world that they dwarf what is being discussed here.)
Personally, I can't see him as any kind of "genius". No one who was willing to break federal law to cheat (unofficially at first) and put their own long-term health at risk is definitely not a genius.
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