Here is a direct quote from the Associated Press:
"Major League Baseball is threatening to kick Alex Rodriguez out of the game for life unless the Yankees star agrees not to fight a lengthy suspension for his role in the sport's latest drug scandal"
Oh, really? That translates to "Alex, you either agree to a ban of 100 games, or we'll ban you for 1,000 games"...which at Rodriguez' rate of pay amounts to an extra penalty of about $150,000,000.
Whatever happened to justice? If Rodriguez is guilty of something, then he ought to be punished commensurately...but his punishment should not be increased because he chooses to fight for his innocence. "Innocent until proven guilty", remember... and "Let the punishment fit the crime". It is not a crime to make the "prosecutors" (in this case, Major League Baseball) prove its case.
Does this warped application of justice sound familiar? It should. It is what the present Administration does all the time. In a broader sense, it is the way politics is played today. "Give us this or we'll push through ten times as much". Threats and more threats, rather than justice and what's right.
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