Selig Cave-In Imminent!

At least two media sources are now, as of Saturday night PDT, reporting that Alex Rodriguez will only be suspended through the 2014 season, and that will be announced on Monday by Major League Baseball.

Nothing, obviously, is confirmed, but I would like to go on the record as to what I believe to be two material facts, should this come down:

1. This "punishment" is a colossal fucking joke.  I have no argument with Alex Rodriguez claiming the main motivator of a life ban is actually the Yankees trying to get out of the contract they have with him.  (And someone I was talking with on the subject came up with a better solution than anything I (or Stephen A. Smith) could:  Fine the Yankees at least through the 2014 salary -- upwards of $25,000,000 or more.)  I also have no argument with the belief I've seen in several articles that it is simply about wringing every dollar Alex Rodriguez can get for himself -- not unlike the cheap whore he comes across as.
2. There's more to this, and it should be obvious.  I don't think too many people, given the stature of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, should believe that Selig, et. al. would lose a lawsuit to Rodriguez, at least as Rodriguez has threatened to should he be life-banned.  The problem for Selig is what might come out in a trial.  I will make no illusions of my opinions on the subject:  I believe Bud Selig was personally criminally culpable for acts promoting and facilitating the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in the sport of baseball to promote and "save" the sport in the 1990's and 2000's, far beyond any obstructions or the like that most may feel he is known to have committed.

I believe he was part of a network, along with at least a number of the owners (if not all), Donald Fehr and the MLB Players' Association, and many MLB players to aid and assist in the promotion of the game by changing the game to a glorified, steroid-driven Home Run Derby.

I believe this included everything from promotion and recruiting to distribution.

I believe Major League Baseball itself was a drug-driven corporation for a number of years.

And that's why, Ian O'Connor of ESPN New York, I want fucking payback.

I want life bans.

I want prison sentences.

There was a point (and reports like this make me wonder if we're completely out of these woods yet!) that I believe the entire corporation should've been shut down.

If this guy (who should not only have been banned a decade ago, but probably has done enough to earn 3 or 4 life bans from baseball) skates with this year and next, even if he never steps foot on the field again, it shows that Bud Selig wants PEDs in the game full-scale.