Miguel Tejada suspended 105 games

[Anyong Bluth]

I posted this in another thread but now that it has it's own discussion. ..

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

I want to believe the guy. Heard him in an interview on 610 last week and he came out and said that he preferred the team had gone out and gotten another second baseman to make the team better. Surely someone that selfless has to be telling the truth here, right?

What I'm confused by is 1st the denial of his reapplication when it was medically cleared before.

Second, this policy is poorly implemented, because use of it is not something you can just stop at a set date- there are real health implications doing that, not to mention some pretty nasty side effects as your system flushes itself and has to readjust to the absence of the medication.

Lastly, why did he never have to serve the 28 game suspension- even if he was appealing there should have been a determination, and if that wasn't resolved yet, given the medication and previous exemption, he should have been allowed to continue to take it until a final ruling.

It makes no sense that he should get dinged for a 3rd offense if there was a process of appeal and/or reapplication given the substance in question as I have pointed out above and no doctor would advocate immediate discontinuation of a medication like adderall.

Plus, what is this policy of expiring medical excemption? This is a class of drugs to treat an ongoing disorder that doesn't magically cure itself, so its not as if his medical need would say compared to, for example, the temporary prescribing of other banned substances such as steroids to treat an isolated medical condition.