Biogenesis

Baseball has decided to suspend players on "the list" 50 games. It would be as if they had failed their first drug test. IF the players accept the punishment, all is well. If they DON'T they will be banned for life.

Yes, they will have the option of arbitration, but they will be banned from playing without pay from their team until the arbitration process is completed. And the arbitration process will last much longer than 50 games.

A-Rod says at this point that he will fight the suspension and the arbitrary ban that will go with it. If he loses the arbitration, he could be banned for life.

Wow.

This is starting to get interesting. And baseball is setting itself up for all sorts of lawsuits. Imagine if you are a player who really did nothing wrong. Your choices are to admit you did do something wrong and lose 50 games of your career and have your reputation shattered...

...OR to be banned for life if you don't do as the league says.

I'm pretty sure that this is not going to end well for any of those involved.

And somewhere in all of this, due process got left in the gutter.

Just, wow.

I used to like baseball.