So today it was announced that Major League Baseball, or more importantly Bud “I let this all Happen” Selig, will not suspend Jason Giambi for admitting to steroids use. I for one am glad about this for one reason, if you suspend him now you are setting an awful precedent for past crimes. Do you have to go back to everyone who, in sealed grand jury testimony, admitted taking steroids, even though those proceedings are suppose to protected. What about someone that committed a crime before they played for that club, can that club suspend them, or worse off cut them with no salary consequence (something the Yankees looked at doing to Giambi). I think that the players union allowed Giambi to talk was a bit surprising to me, if it were me running the MLBPA, he would not have talked to anyone. Now the big question is, what did he say, did he give names, and numbers, thats doubtful, but you never know. This whole thing was a charade trying to get people to see that the Micthell investigation is actually doing some, but he has no power to do anything. So in the end, MLB and the MLBPA, just continue to skirt around a problem that is an enormous danger to the sport.
