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MLB wised up and finally acted without a drug test (which rarely worked).
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That's the point--they can't. They can't bargain and sign off on a document that says this is what will happen if you fail a drug test--first, second and third time--and then outright ignore what's in the document and, as importantly, impose what is not in the document. If you want to say that an admission or conviction is the same as a failed drug test, fine, then let's see where that goes. Then if you want to say you did it three times and therefore we can stack these offenses and treat them as three then try that--sounds arbitrary as hell to me, especially since you know those other offenders violated on more than one simple occasion and are being treated differently, and no one previously has been treated in this manner. Even then, though, you have to show me where it says three strikes equals 211 games-- it doesn't. If you think you have four or more offenses, show me what the punishment is then. If there is anything on point, I seriously doubt it says 211 games.
Finally, if you want to throw that impeding investigation stuff in there then show me what authority allows you to suspend for that. If it's the best interests of baseball clause, then bring it on and let (most) everything out in the open as would be allowed under a challenge to the CBA. Selig did not invoke that clause.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
Last edited by nolemmings; 08-05-2013 at 03:49 PM.
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