"But this whole ordeal was completely necessary. And it was done through a process that by now is regarded as time-tested and fair.
Baseball doesn't necessarily 'win' in the literal sense when one of its biggest names is suspended for one year for violating the collectively bargained drug policy. But baseball did what it had to do in this case, to preserve the integrity of its drug-testing program and to preserve the integrity of the game itself.
On Saturday, an arbitrator hearing Rodriguez's appeal of a 211-game suspension ruled that Rodriguez would be suspended for 162 games, the entire 2014 season."
ARod never failed a drug test. So tell me about the integrity of its drug-testing program again?
Ponder the amount of time and effort MLB used to get this suspension against one player. Now imagine they used those resources against every other player.
This is why this strikes a lot of people as unfair.
It's not that ARod is innocent, it's that the "integrity of the game itself" is laughable when Big Papi is handed the World Series MVP by the same man who crusades against ARod.
You tell me if it's a personal vendetta when Selig is on "60 Minutes" claiming he'd never seen anything like it in 50 years. Yeah, that's because you weren't looking, pal.
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