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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei
You can't punish the ones you can't catch, but you can punish the ones that you can...and you should. To the max.
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The 10 day suspension is a joke.
If I was Commish:
1st offense: 30 day suspension (without pay) plus $250,000 fine.
2nd offense: one year suspension (without pay) plus $1,000,000 fine.
3rd offense: Ban from baseball, no pension, no hall, nothing. 3rd strike your out.
It would make the players think about it before they poked that needle in their butts.
As far as corked bats. No, not the same as using roids. It falls in the catorgory of skuffing a baseball. I think they handle this fine. There is always the risk of the bat breaking and being embarrassed. However, we DO NOT allow the 'It was not my bat', if I can't use the 'It is not my pot', then they can't use the 'It is not my bat'.
I think before each game, the umpire should take a name from a hat for each team and whoever name is drawn out has to take a roid test. This way, they never know when the test is going to happen. Also, at the start of each season and at the end of each season, EVERYONE should have to take the test, except Mark Belanger.