Genius. In the name of “protect the player, whatever the cost,” the MLB players’ union has completely failed the interests of all those who were not cheating. Here’s a link to Mushnick’s New York Post article.
From the article:
How is it possible no member of the MLBPA has stood up to ask why his union has always chosen to protect its drug-dirty members over those who have played the game steroid and HGH-free?
How is it that those who cheated and even broke Federal laws to provide themselves a competitive and financial advantage have been fully supported by their union without a word of consolation or support publicly spoken on behalf of its clean members?
Do such players not exist? Are they too frightened to stand up and speak out? Or would they be considered disloyal to a union that places the sinners far above the saints? Or did MLBPA leadership, pompous and money-blinded, figure these days and such questions would never come?
That’s just one reason why Congress needs to step in and appoint it’s own independent Commissioner. Here’s another I had a buddy who is a sports labor lawyer who is a panderer and enabler who said, “you can’t stop it and you can’t punish them. Jay, don’t you want to be filthy rich? You can’t take a position which is against what’s best for both the player’s rights AND the money.
That’s the second reason why Congress needs to intervene. For every scoundrel we catch…for every panderer and enabler we eliminate, there will still be two more money-grubbing, power-worshipping, butt kissers who screw himself and every ethical standard to get ahead waiting to take his place that looks and acts just like the last guy. We have to eradicate this “greed is good” culture that we’ve tolerated for too long.
Now the latest is “well if they just come out and plead to what they did years ago, all will be forgiven and forgotten.”
In other words, lie some more…plea to only what you got caught, get a slap on the wrist and a free pass. In a year, it’ll all blow over. Well not this time. Congress sees right through baseball. They aren’t going to let Selig just sweep it under the rug with a shrug and a disingenuous mea culpa. Balco’s files will begin where the Mitchell Report could not tread and the Albany, NY prosecution will fuel the fire. This is only the beginning.
So what do we do to the steroid cheat that admitted what he got caught doing, but nothing else when OTHER records link him to OTHER incidents? You watch, that comes next. Meanwhile in New Jersey, some kid mortgaging his future cocktailing estrogen and bovine growth hormones meant for cattle, all in the name of maybe getting a scholarship to a Big Ten school.
Steroid cheats? Hang ’em high. On second thought, hanging is too good for them.
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