Mike Reiss? All of a sudden I’m Mike Reiss now? Let’s be clear, those may be your expectations, but they’re not mine. Regardless, I don’t intend to do anything differently than I’ve always done it – write from the perspective of one fan. And message boards are part of that experience for me, and evidently others. So I wrote about it, one post, one day. Let’s be clear about that – the ‘credence’ you speak of amounts to exactly that. One post, one day.

I’ll stand by the post just the same. That’s where I first learned the news, and the reaction made an impression on me. So I wrote about it. That’s what I do every day, to wildly varying effect. I still can’t for the life of me see where I could or should be doing something different.

And I’ll take the heat if it pisses somebody off, though I don’t much like the prospect. That’s why I’m here responding. I’m not writing something and putting it up on the Internet for everyone to see, and then complaining when somebody notices.

How do I feel about the ‘insta-pundits’ that were willing to accept Harrison’s statement on Friday as the act of, as you put it, a ’stand-up guy’. Well, if I’m going to err on this matter, I’m going to do it on the side of folks who hear something like “I did it, it was wrong, I’ve embarrassed myself and everyone I am associated with, and I will try to make it right” and feel as though that’s good enough to give them pause before climbing up on their high horse to howl about the corruption that surrounds their otherwise pure existence.

I am not looking the other way; it truly doesn’t make a difference to me in any way, shape or form. He got caught, he owned up to it and life will go on.

Some people may call Rodney a cheater, I call him the majority.

I for one am not damning his entire career. But he’s now a known cheater – so if folks want to gow down that line of speculation, Rodney brought it on himself.