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I remember a day when the biggest story on ESPN was Who's now, Kobe Bryant Trade Demands, and the Yankees being in last place. Since the Summer of our discontent continued it has been refs gambling, juicers breaking records, and of course, dogfighting.

We could prepare ourselves to see Barry Bonds break the Homerun record, that has been coming for a while. The NBA ref story hit hard but it didn't nearly get the response of what has been the biggest sports story this side of Kobe Case. I haven't seen this much outrage since David Chase fooled everyone into thinking thier cable box went out(by the way, that ending sucked).

Really you go threw most walks of life and most people have the same reaction. "I'M OUTRAGE! I'M IN DISBELIEF! HOW COULD ANYONE DO THIS! WHAT KIND OF PERSON DOES THIS TO A POOR ANIMAL! WHAT KIND OF MONSTER CAN HURT SUCH AN INNOCENT ANIMAL!"

To that I say Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa...Were talkin about Pitbulls and Innocent animal. Where was the outrage when Pits were doing this:

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/winter-springs-fl/TMJQB6C7OOSONHOTT/p2

or stories such as these at the bottom of this page:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/13415948/detail.html?rss=ind&psp=news

Why isn't there the same outrage when this happens:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/03/national/main699664.shtml

or this:

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1367673.html

Or even this:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3612370

Where are the outrage for these? Why is PETA defending these actions and protesting Mike Vick? Where at the picket signs and fences for all these cases?

No I'm not saying becasue Mike Vick killed a dangerous dog that makes it anymore right, BUT I'm saying a Pitbull is not exactly the friendest animal on the face of the Earth. Statically they attack more than any other breed of dog. All I'm saying is why is it such an outrage when a human kills an animal then when an animal kills a human?

Look, what Mike Vick basically did was take an animal out of it's original element and force it to do something against it's will for personal entertainment. Yes I know thats the black and white of it but basically thats what he did. The circus does the same thing with elephants.

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=carson_barnes&Player=wm

http://www.captiveanimals.org/circuses/circus.htm

Now I don't know if of the animals were hung or electruted afterwards but I know people attend circuses year around. Fact is, people don't seem to care that much because most people aren't "elephant". Hmm and I thought it was about the animal cruelty. Even tho those innocent animals are force to be on the road for a part of the year and there not exactly traveling in spacious compartment. We can say Mike Vick did some cruel things to those dogs but we don't have an idea what he did with the dogs BEFORE they fought. Mike Vick is rich, so for all we know those dogs could have been eating better than you and me. Or those dogs could have been chained up by thier legs. I haven't seen anything about it yet so I don't know

 Does anyone remember when this story broke:

 http://www.animal-lib.org.au/lists/fish/fish.shtml

No one cares about that to much either. Thier no picketing of ESPN when they show that. I don't see ESPN showing clips of that kind of "cruelty".

Look this is not a defense of Mike Vick, Its a call out to all people who are going on radio shows, bloggin online, talking in chatroom about how terrible Mike Vick is for killing such innocent animals. Where are these so-called "animal cruelty haters" at when other types of animal cruelty are going on? Why only stop at the torturing of dogs? If he was Elephant fighting or raccoon fighting would you have the same outrage?

Lets flip that, Why is a pit bull such a nice defenseless animal? Are they still the same innocent animals when they attack kids and elderly people? 

But then again we're talking about sports and the way sports is covered which of course leads to numberous hypocrites saying thier two cents. Barry Bonds gets treated like crap, while Lance Armstrong gets the treatment although neither have failed a drug test and both have had books written about them. Barry Bonds gets treated like crap while the other people who failed a drug test don't get a boo. Its cool to hate Barry Bonds.

Just like the NBA "thug" image thats comes out after every fight dispite MLB and NHL has had people arrest for on the field incidents and have way more bench clearing fights than the NBA. But its cool the hate on the NBA.

Its Hypothical. But it will always be that way with sports...