According to CBS Sports' Jon Heyman, Major League Baseball may pursue further penalty for Melky Cabrera. Cabrera was suspended 50 games last week for testing positive for synthetic testosterone. Then a report Sunday in the New York Daily News revealed that he tried to dupe investigators during the appeals process by buying a website and creating a fake supplement. "All options are in play with this situation," says Heyman's source.
can they really punish him more? he broke a rule, and has been punished for that rule. even though the fake website was shady and bad, I don't think there is a specific rule against it. this isn't the NFL where you can punish someone just because it's against the game or whatever.
I can't see current rules stopping players from taking the chance and not getting caught. not when you're talking about many millions of dollars. before Melky was caught he was looking at a big contract. if he had been cauht after such a contract, I don't think there is anything the team could have done.
I would not be the least bit surprised if there's a rule against obstruction of justice, or whatever they want to call it. There certainly should be, if there isn't. Surprised guys like this don't get blackballed from the game the way Barry did. This guy cheated and created a fake website which he used in his appeal, and he'll probably be playing in October.
According to CBS Sports' Jon Heyman, Major League Baseball may pursue further penalty for Melky Cabrera. Cabrera was suspended 50 games last week for testing positive for synthetic testosterone. Then a report Sunday in the New York Daily News revealed that he tried to dupe investigators during the appeals process by buying a website and creating a fake supplement. "All options are in play with this situation," says Heyman's source.
can they really punish him more? he broke a rule, and has been punished for that rule. even though the fake website was shady and bad, I don't think there is a specific rule against it. this isn't the NFL where you can punish someone just because it's against the game or whatever.
I can't see current rules stopping players from taking the chance and not getting caught. not when you're talking about many millions of dollars. before Melky was caught he was looking at a big contract. if he had been cauht after such a contract, I don't think there is anything the team could have done.
I would not be the least bit surprised if there's a rule against obstruction of justice, or whatever they want to call it. There certainly should be, if there isn't. Surprised guys like this don't get blackballed from the game the way Barry did. This guy cheated and created a fake website which he used in his appeal, and he'll probably be playing in October.
No lawyer but getting a prescription drug without a prescription is a crime. Falsifying records of such could be construed as obstruction of justice or fraud I would think. Creating a website on the internet for false products could be a violation of various interstate commerce and racketeering laws. Whether that is prosecutable in this case is dubious, but it certainly is unethical and I would think would be covered under whatever ethics clause he has in his contract (not that that matters since he does not have a multi-year deal and is already suspended for the remainder of the year).
Regardless, he obviously took them to turn himself from a spare part 4th OF into a top player and it will be interesting next season to see if anyone really wants to take the baggage on by signing him.
I dont know if its been discussed here yet or not, but for me the only interesting thing left with this entire ridiculous situation is, what are the Giants options as related to making a qualifying offer for draft pick compensation? Before the scandal it was a given that if the Giants did not extend or resign him via FA, then at the very least they would make the qualifying offer to get an extra draft pick. Even after the 50 game ban, theres been some debate about whether the Giants should still make the offer. If Melky is banned for a greater length of time, how would that play out? can they make the offer even if hes banned for a whole season? Would they even have to actually pay him anything in that case?
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by Skin Blues » Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:57 pm 
