Four Stories That Aren't Related, But Really Are...

I think we really need to go over this Man Code shit again, because it's clear we're back at it big-time:

• Arlondis Chapman, the fastest pitcher in baseball, has been suspended for the first month of the regular season (correctly, the scheduled length of 30 games) for violations of the MLB Domestic Violence Policy.  

And yet...  The New York Yankees picked up the son of a bitch.

Really...

This is MLB's response to Chapman's being accused of choking and hitting his girlfriend and firing a gun eight times.

No charges will be filed, as it appears the story the woman gave began to change.

MLB does not require a criminal conviction.

30 games?  Really??

Especially given if you have enough evidence to ban this guy a month, sans criminal conviction...

Rob Manfred has no spine.

And baseball author Molly Knight knows exactly why...

We can *not* have a system where teams are rewarded for acquiring players under DV investigation because of service time lost to suspension.

— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) March 1, 2016

(Deadspin)

In other sexual harassment news...

• Florida International.  Women's basketball coach Marlin Chinn is being accused of sexual harassment by his (former) captain, who alleges that she was suspended from the team for refusing to have sex with Chinn.

In 2016.

Really.

Destini Feagan was banned from the Florida International team, and she claims it's because she refused to have sex with coach Chinn.

She reported Chinn's conduct to the school and NCAA, and was then banned from the team.

In 2016.

Really.

Chinn has been suspended by the school pending investigation.

(Deadspin, through the Miami Herald.)

In OTHER sexual harassment/etc. news regarding college basketball:

• Three members of the Minnesota Gopher basketball team have been banned for the rest of the season after one of them, freshman Kevin Dorsey, tweeted a sex tape of him and another man having sex with a woman.

IN 2016!!!

REALLY!!

I guess it really doesn't matter to you anymore when you're a freshman on an 8-21 team in the Big Ten, does it?

Son, be real fortunate if you aren't in jail by the time next season rolls around.

And in even MORE sexual harassment news, I'm going to list a bunch of comments I've seen about a particular court case that has finally cropped up...

• This is exactly what #ErinAndrews is dealing with from ignorant men who can't understand this violation of privacy. https://t.co/HSXSq714t7

  — JT The Brick (@JTTheBrick) March 1, 2016

• You should be fired from whatever job you have for this ignorant comment. https://t.co/KEkVGAEcJP

  — JT The Brick (@JTTheBrick) March 1, 2016

• You can't be that ignorant and stupid? Can you with these comments? https://t.co/GVMJmHTcbn

  — JT The Brick (@JTTheBrick) March 1, 2016

• "If we’re being honest, this whole thing pushed her career forward faster than ever."

The first three are comments made to JT The Brick of FOX Sports Radio, who correctly excoriates each and every one of these male fans. The fourth is one of numerous comments made in support of Erin Andrews' stalker and other Men's Rights Advocates to basically rape her for the crime of being beautiful and hot.

And now we find out that a representative of the ownership of Marriott has been accused of playing the video for his friends!

You fuckers make me look sane, and that counts when I got arrested, bitch!

Why don't we just admit that the only place for a woman in sports is in a leotard and leggings and spreading herself with the cheerleaders, damn all her other talents and the actual use she has in the world, right??

Yeah, that's the fucking ticket.

At some point -- I don't know if it's going to be one of these cases above, an NFL abuser, etc. and so forth... But it is far past time to put the entire Man Code of Sports on trial -- for sexual harassment, sexual assault, abuse of numerous forms, and innumerable other crimes.

And trust me, MRA boys, I know of what I speak... Or is it OK as long as you either have a fat contract or give the other MRAs what they want???  Is it simply not OK if you have no other use in society?