I’m willing to move on, too. I’m just disappointed I guess that it happened — I hate negative pub for Dallas, for the Rangers, and I’ve been a Kenny Rogers fan since those Mitch Williams days. It was disappointing to see him act like a child.

I agree with the paid thing. Getting paid while not working? That’s not a suspension / punishment, that’s a vacation. But the baseball union is the strongest union in the world, and they get what they want. It drives me nuts. That union has mutated what unions were created for — to protect people from savage working conditions and penny salaries. A union that stands enraged when their members might get a pay cut from a minimum salary of $316,000 (and realy, only rookies make that minimum — the average is 2.49mil and the median is $800,000, according to the Associated Press via ESPN) has outlived its usefulness as a union.

The admiral thing is that Rogers has apologized, he went to the game and apologized again, handled the boo’s during the game with class, and tried to down play his events as much as possible to not steal the thunder. I don’t think his seventeen positive years in the majors should be discounted as this is something that is clearly out of character for him.

Let him serve his punishment and forgive and forget.

On another completely different topic, I think the far worse issue here is that he gets paid for the entire suspension…