At least Jennings will only get a 3 game ban....

...unlike Alex Rodriguez who will miss 211 games for doping.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/05/alex-rodriguez-suspended-mlb-peds-drugs

 

Football should do something similar, I mean how many more chances will Adrian Mutu get? Banned for cocaine use, banned for doping. He was even banned from the Romania national team for being drunk the night before a match (albeit the ban was lifted after 3 games). Players like him, and Joey Barton and Luis Suarez will continuously abuse the system knowing they'll get another chance.

 

I was more shocked by the number of games in a year.. 162 games a year, people struggle to get to a football game every other weekend imagine if it was basically every other day!

 

They rotate pretty much whole teams as well, only a few play every/most games.

 

Cocaine is actually a performance enhancing drug, because it makes you think you're something you're not.

 

In most other sports it would be a minimum of two years from today. As it is, he will miss not much more than he would from a serious injury.

 

I was aiming for light hearted glib comment; 3 games versus 211.

Not sure your minimum 2 years in most sports stacks up.

 

It is for sports that follow the WADA code (Olympic sports) - and they want to extend it to four years. I think Baseball doesn't and it isn't in the Olympics any more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/20390311

 

I thought we were talking football at first, then I realised it was that strange American equivalent of rounders. Serves him right, shouldn't play a girls game.

 

They don't actually have proof of him doping though, all they can do is link him to a clinic.

Chatted to a mate in the States about this who is a lawyer, he hates the Yankees with a passion but supports Rodriguez on this given the evidence against him so far.

 

But hasn't he admitted doping in the past? I don't follow baseball, but I'm sure the news reports last night said that he took steroids a few years ago. So not exactly "clean", is he? And he's still laughing all the way to the bank. Reputation in tatters but he'll still enjoy an incredibly wealthy retirement, despite the suspected / proven cheating. Not right to me.