When Did Cheating Become OK?

I know I am going to probably take some heat for this from the very few people that actually read it, but I have to get this off my chest. Can someone please tell me when it became acceptable here in the United States to cheat?   Baseball In 1989, Pete Rose was caught placing bets on base ball games, including 52 games that the Reds were a part of.  From what I hear, and this is speculation, he never bet against his team. Pete Rose, who would have been a Hall of Famer, was declared ineligible for the hall because of this transgression. Can someone please tell me how this is worse than Mark McGwire and then Barry Bonds shattering the home run records while on steroids? Can someone please tell me how this is worse than injecting human growth hormones into your body so you can hit a ball further?   Football The '00 Patriots started out at an unbelievable rate.  They won three Super Bowls in the first half of the decade. In 2007, Eric Mangini turned the ... (link)