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From: gkchappe@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Drug Penalties
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 17:56:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 17:56:00 1986
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Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!gkchappe    Mar  2 16:56:00 1986


     Time for a major discussion here.  What is everybody's opinion
on the Ueberroth drug suspensions/penalties?  I happen to think he
has no right to fine people that heavily.  It will cost Hernandez
nearly $100,000 which is just ridiculous.  If Keith had been busted
as normal citizen like you or me, he would have gotten a $500 fine
and some probation at the most.  I think the drug testing for the
rest of the career is OK as is the community service.

     Even more ridiculous is the statement by Petey that the drug
problem is now over in MLB!  I guess LaMarr Hoyt proved him wrong
later that day.  I guess I don't buy the argument that since 
ballplayers are paid so much and supposedly worshipped by little
kids that they are obligated to be nearly perfect and immune to
the enticements of drugs or other such evils.  The guys should be
punished just as a "normal" citizen is punished: no less and no
more.

				Geoff Chappell
				Univ. of Okla.