Two Hall of Famers, Pete Rose and Ty Cobb. They are the hit leaders in MLB in the history of baseball.
What do they have in common? They both had issues.
Everyone on Ty Cobb's team hated the guy. He was just mean is all, and an ardent racist. He was hated so much by his team, his own teammates congratulated a player on another team that beat him out for a batting title for having the highest batting average in a season.
But then it got uglier. A fan in a wheelchair called Ty a half Ni&&er in the stands, after which Ty Cobb promptly jumped the fence and beat the hell out of him, almost killing him. Ty was then banned from baseball, just like Pete Rose later was. However, they were all such racists, they banned together with Ty and demanded he be reinstated or they would all quit, so MLB let him back in, as he eventually found himself in the Hall of Fame.
Pete Rose was not so lucky, because there was no such solidarity in baseball to defend him, even though betting on baseball is far less a crime than attempted murder of a handicapped person because you are a racist arse. Yet the PC police in baseball persist with their injustices. Rose should be more eligible than Ty, but there is no equity or equality in the PC of men.
And here we have Trevor, someone who has done far less than both Pete and Ty, being treated like pond scum treated worse than Ty or Pete.
Is their dysfunction the reason they excel in such sports? I think there is something to this thought. Do deficits in character translate into making up such deficits in other areas, such as being competitive?
I think so. Problem is, this is the type of people society celebrates as their heroes.
The true heroes in society, however, are the loving parents who stick by their spouse and children and raise them in a house of love, you know, the type of parents that show up to school boards and are demonized by Biden and targeted by the FBI cuz they get all bent out of shape that a drag queen is twerking in the face of their First grader in class. Those are the people that are not only not recognized as being heroes, they are demonized as being the problem with society.