Selig and Union Squabble Over Nothing
Baseball and the MLB Players’ Union are trying to reach an agreement to impose some of the Mitchell Report’s recommendations.
The players are amenable to a strengthened year-round testing program, to supplant the current two test minimum. Neither side wants testing turned over to an independent agency.
The sticking point, it seems, is punishment for players named in the report. Retro-active punishment could only be meted out to players found guilty after 2004, which is fewer than a dozen of the eighty-plus players named in the investigation.
The Union wants players to receive no sanction, as suggested by Mitchell. Selig wants some formal punitive measure, in the form of either counseling or fines – basically nothing.
Teams of lawyers paid thousands of dollars an hour are beating each other senselessly, with nerf bats.
And you wonder why it can cost $200+ to take a family to a game?
