MLB close to increasing severity of PED penalties

[G-Snarls]

[TDotttt2005]

Hopefully Goins Roided up while he could this winter.

[Grant77]

This won't change anything when tens of millions of dollars are on the table and teams don't seem to care about past steroid use.

[Anemic0ffense]

This won't change anything when tens of millions of dollars are on the table and teams don't seem to care about past steroid use.

 

I agree. It's Selig once again trying to save his pathetic legacy.

[baseballsss]

what difference does it make. Selig will just make up a random amount of time just like he did for everyone last year.

[8D]

I guess that's one of the underlying reasons Arod was banned for the entire season. It was at lesat his second offence.

His first offcial offence was admitting on ESPN to the whole world he was a cheater.

This rule was probably in the works for a while.

[McD]

Nowhere near strong enough. 2 year ban first offence, life ban second. Strictest drug program in American sports means bugger all, baseball should compare itself to athletics instead.

[McD]

Also the power should be given to teams to cancel/renegotiate with any player found to be cheating.

[John_Havok]

Also the power should be given to teams to cancel/renegotiate with any player found to be cheating.

 

This should never EVER be allowed. Teams would start spiking their own players when they got too old to be worth their bloated contracts and it would be a get out of jail free card for team's who made bad contract decisions.

[TheHurl]

plus one game for each grey hair Selig deems you caused.

[McD]

This should never EVER be allowed. Teams would start spiking their own players when they got too old to be worth their bloated contracts and it would be a get out of jail free card for team's who made bad contract decisions.

 

admittedly I didnt consider this but it doesn't seem right that players earn millions of pounds undeservedly through creating a false representation of their abilities through steroid use.

[John_Havok]

admittedly I didnt consider this but it doesn't seem right that players earn millions of pounds undeservedly through creating a false representation of their abilities through steroid use.

 

I agree with the notion, but how can you really limit a player's ability to negotiate the best contract he can, regardless if he's a cheater or not? Let's say hypothetically, Ryan Braun was only allowed to earn 5 million per year as a penalty for his bust. That's even better for the team that signs him since he's still going to be a pretty decent ball player providing a ton of value on a dirt cheap contract, which benefits the team not only from that contract, but allows them more payroll flexibility to add other players.

 

Basically, no matter what type of monetary penalty might get heaped on a player for steroid use, it would end up benefitting team owners far more than it would be a detriment to the player. If MLB really wants to clean up the game, they shouldn't be focusing on hurting players' wallets only, but hurting owners' wallets as well in some way. If teams were also held at least partially responsible for their players actions, you can bet it would have a much bigger impact.

 

Right now, there's absolutely no downside to a team for having their player busted, other than losing him for the duration of the suspension.

[Terminator]

I wish they would just leave the penalties alone. They are high enough as is.

[Sammy225]

 

lol

 

Bud just threw his dick on the table.

[fatcowxlive]

Bud just threw his dick on the table.

 

Jesus Christ there's nothing else that could be said, wow! Bud Selig is basically like, "You f*** up once, I'll f*** you for the rest of your career"