Wouldn’t THAT send a message? Like you said, those of us in the general work force would get fired for a positive test. These guys get to take a 50 game vacation, spending the millions they already made, only to come back and have their job waiting for them. It might not be there in playing time, but with the way these MLB contracts are allowed to exist, you ride the pine you still get paid so I ask again, what do these guys care?

The problem with all of this is that the Union will strong-arm any attempt by Bud (mostly weak attempts) to clean up the game because they know their guys are using and they don’t think it’s fair to have such harsh penalties and that these guys need to provide for their families…boo fucking hoo…

Don’t take drugs. It’s that easy. I know most of these dopes weren’t around in the 80s to hear Nancy Reagan preach about this shit, but it’s true in any decade: don’t do drugs.

But again, this always comes back to the money and I just don’t think Bud, the owners, the players, or the fans for that matter want the game to be clean. And when I say fans I mean pink hat fans, the johnny-come-latelies that sit in the stands and text and use Facebook to post pictures of their $12 nachos.

We watch a filthy, economically spoiled sport.

Now what?

And are you going to sit there and believe that MLB players aren’t a step ahead of Buddy boy’s PED list? Please. While I don’t believe that most of the individual athletes are all that smart, the chemical technicians they hire to keep them “in shape” are in fact smart and I do believe that the players do get the real deal conversation of what exactly is going into their bodies.

(most) Players are NOT clean. If you believe that, you’re just silly. There is too much money at risk and as we’ve seen over the last 30 years of baseball, that’s really all that matters in the end. Any time money is involved in American conversation, it always wins.

That would be a treat.

Oh yeah… because his numbers last year were so much better than they had ever been befo…. no, that’s not it either.

Chucklehead.

If players in KC (Melky, Frenchy) are using PED’s then it’s just rampant throughout the league.

But, the All-Time Award for the stupidest sports rule ever?

The “Tuck Rule”

– Cabrera took the steroids

– the rule is stupid to begin with (wait until the NFL tries it for the QB rating. “If he had played, and threw 40 incomplete passes, he would win!)

– all parties agreed to this action.

I just think that, when writers have nothing to write about, they use the “Bud Selig is ruining baseball” angle.

But, he isn’t.

Melky should have won that batting title and just because Bud saw that it was probably going to happen I think he finally got off his used car salesman ass and tried to cover it up.

Bud sucks. We need a new commish.

But the whole “MLB has no plan when it comes to PED punishment” shouldn’t surprise anyone with Bud Selig at the helm.