The Scarlet Letter

I was forced to read the Scarlet Letter in school long ago but it has a certain resonance now that the Hall of Fame has stupidly agreed to let that self-aggradizing idiot Marc Ecko have his defaced HR 756 ball be on display. I give full credit to a poster named robinred on the Baseball Think Factory for this brilliant response:

"The Scarlet A doesn't implicate Hester," Goodman Mortimer said. "Villagers will have to make their own decision. We would never suggest how they should judge things."