Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Jonathan Mahler may be wrong about everything.

But he sounds like an adult compared to the Looney Tunes at the Daily News:

"Orza told me that the lifetime-ban rumor is purely a negotiating tactic: 'Baseball knows it can’t ban Alex for life.' The labor contract language that would presumably empower it -- the specific clause says that players can be disciplined for 'conduct that is materially detrimental or materially prejudicial to the best interests of baseball' -- was designed to prevent players from betting on games. If the provision applied to other situations, why wasn't it invoked during one of baseball’s previous scandals -- the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, for example? Also, at the insistence of the union, Selig signs a letter attached to the labor contract every year assuring players that he won’t invoke it. So that’s that.


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Even if Selig is sitting on baseball’s version of the Pentagon Papers -- and he might just be -- I’m still not sure how that justifies his handling of the Biogenesis investigation. If baseball is so confident in its evidence, and the means by which it acquired it, why is it so eager to avoid presenting it before a neutral party in an arbitration hearing? Whatever crimes Rodriguez stands accused of, doesn’t he deserve his day in court?

In any event, it's time to see what evidence of wrongdoing baseball is holding. Show us your hand, Bud."

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