By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher
This is a day unlike any other, especially in sports. Major League Baseball has suspended 13 players for their link to performance-enhancing drugs through being linked to Biogenesis.
Yet, the biggest name on the list is New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez got a longer suspension for being linked to PED’s from Biogenesis.
Then, trying to obstruct Major League Baseball’s investigation, where he allegedly purchased documents from Biogenesis to hide the fact that he bought PEDs from the former Miami clinic.
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Yet, 50-game suspensions, or 211 games in terms for Rodriguez, are simply not enough. A harsher penalty must be taken for those who cheat the game.
While these players have lost millions of dollars, they did it to themselves. They didn’t do it to improve their teams, only their statures.
They injected – or any other means – to better themselves to get more money. They did it for an advantage.
An advantage that gave them an edge over their fellow competitors. And in many cases, an advantage for a job that so many others were competing for. Some of those players are no longer in baseball because they lost a job.
Now, with the players out, new players will be allowed to take their jobs. But the chances of these players taking their jobs on a long-term basis are very slim.
It is only a slap on the wrist for many players. Why? There are always going to be individuals who want to cheat the game, especially those like Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, who blatantly lied about their link to PEDs for years until the evidence became overwhelming that they got caught.
Major League Baseball needs to take a stance like the Olympics. The Olympics have a ban on performance-enhancing drugs, where an individual, who cheats, gets a 4-year ban.
That’s a one shot deal, where they would lose money and potential sponsors from being on the big stage of the Olympics. If Major League Baseball went to a four-year ban, many of these players careers would be over.
But right now, Major League Baseball can just hand out the options that are available to them. Michael Weiner, the Executive Director of MLBPA, and Bud Selig, MLB Commissioner, need to work on a harsher penalty, where individuals can get a lifetime ban for cheating. But right now, only one-lifetime ban has been handed out in the history of baseball.
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Yet, that ban wasn’t handed out for taking performance-enhancing drugs. That penalty was handed out for alleged gambling by the all-time hits king, Pete Rose, who allegedly bet on the games that he played.
Rose has been trying to get his lifetime ban lifted, but Major League Baseball won’t listen to him. However, players using performance-enhancing drugs are far worse in this day than when Rose was suspended decades ago. PEDs are the same today as gambling was for Rose back in the day.
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