With no zero-tolerance, here's the case for cheating

With no zero-tolerance, here's the case for cheating

"What's the downside to cheating? You dope, you put up big numbers, you win a big free agent contract or big dollars in arbitration, you get suspended for half a season and then you return to the game and the lifestyle to which you've become accustomed.

Ryan Braun will return to the Brewers some day and make the mega-millions they owe him on his contract. And there's nothing his team, the Milwaukee Brewers, can do about it. The contract is guaranteed. No wonder Braun doesn't seem to have a contrite bone in his body.

If Rodriguez's ban is upheld, he will lose $34 million. But the Yankees will still be on the hook for $86 for the four years after he returns."