Determining the discipline after seeing how much he cooperates is a great way to ensure that no one who might be thinking about cooperating ever steps forward. A guy who is feeling guilty and wants to come clean is going to be totally discouraged from doing so after this.

It’s as if a federal prosecutor says to a witness, “I’ll give you immunity in exchange for your testimony, but only if your testimony gets us a conviction.”

This is really abuse of power by Selig. Giambi was talking about violations which occurred before the league even had a steroid policy. He’s basically blackmailing Giambi because he’s desperate to get some kind of result from the $30M he’s spent on the Mitchell investigation. Selig needs to step down.

and people complain about a-rod bringing bad press to the yanks