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.
...
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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