Long answer:

I believe you are not confused, just being extra nice toward those less deserving of such treatment.

You are expecting people to be logical and, more at issue here, moral and they are not, including many cheap fans in San Francisco. As a better native of California who enjoyed it when it was a better place to live (less crowded and les expensive), and who got to see real achievement in sports (the creation of the most successful sports team and organization ever in the San Francisco 49ers), I have disdain for the stupid people who are logically or morally “challenged” and see nothing wrong with Bonds or even defend his conduct, and contempt for the scum who actually are offended that some, who know and are better, object to Bonds’s and his degenerate supporters’ conduct.

A group of students is taking a high-stakes test (akin to the SAT’s) and one of them uses a calculator expressly prohibited by the test-givers for the math portion of the exam. At the conclusion that student makes a perfect score. None of the other students (who did not use the device) comes even close.

Now, in my mind, the top student cheated and would be disqualified (along with his scores). Yet many are heralding Bonds as a great sportsman for setting records while at least some of that “record-setting” was done while using prohibited substances as performance enhancers.

Am I confused about something here?