Ryan Braun is now an admitted cheater and I might add, an
inexplicably unindicted criminal. A-Rod
most likely is, too. Cleaning up the
game of baseball is certainly the right thing to do, but the end won’t justify
the means. Baseball’s antitrust
exemption apparently allows them to ignore every principle of due process, and
their hypocrisy confirms that they’ve carefully read Robert Ringer’s “Winning
Through Intimidation”. But then we’re
all well along that path with our social media outrages and demands for
non-legal punishment for anyone we don’t agree with. But Saddam was a bad man, maybe a lttle worse
than Paula Dean.
MLB bullied witnesses all over Florida, sued Anthony Bosch
and then cut a deal with him. They
bought his testimony, promised him they would back off their suit. May I point out that Anthony is ALSO a
criminal. In their latest sham move, they
suspended a Milwaukee Brewer – a team going nowhere, but nevertheless owned by
the Commish himself. This was crafted to
give the appearance of being serious about the issue of PEDs, but was actually
calculated to add credibility to a criminal’s testimony. Braun has confirmed that Bosch is telling the
truth in his case, and then by extension he must also be telling the truth in
all other cases. Kind of greasing the
skids. Braun gets to come back next year
after stealing an MVP from Matt Kemp and gaming the system. All in addition to his criminal use of PEDs
and violation of Baseball’s worthless CBA.
And who punishes MLB for these crimes?:
·
Tampering with a witness (witnesses)
·
Extortion
·
Bribery
·
Breach of Contract (suspensions may be issued
for Failed Drug tests – they don’t have one.)
We should be outraged.
We should demand justice and fairness.
We should demand criminal charges against Braun, Rodriguez and MLB (and
all the other players implicated). We should
demand they be banned for life if convicted, not offered a deal. We should stop the hypocrisy.
If I’m Braun or Rodriguez or Cruz or whoever, I fight. I fight based on MLB’s crimes, based on
breach of contract. Take it far enough
and they would surely win. They’ll never
get a jury to convict based on such tainted and manipulated evidence.
As a Yankee fan, I would love to see A-Rod gone. That’s what they’re pushing for, and if
nobody holds MLB’s feet to the fire, that’s what we’ll finally get. But just like the tainted records these
players put up, MLB’s actions are despicable and worthless.
