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Originally Posted by drcy
The arbiter wrote that ARod used three different substances on three different occasions. So they were three distinctly separate offenses, using either legal or layman's logic. If you're caught double parking on three different days, you know you'll get three tickets not one. If evidence proves you burglarized three homes over a year, prosecutors won't charge them as one burglary, and the average person on the street would also consider them three separate crimes.
Fear the day someone can repeat a crime 99 times for free, because the law counts them only a single offense.
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In addition, the application of the rules by the arbitrator was collectively bargained by the players union. So basically ARod got what he bargained for.