MLB breaks Jason

How? He admits in public he did it and MLB wants him held accountable?
I'm gonna disagree here.

 

The negotiations that brought Giambi and Mitchell to the table have taken weeks. Therefore, the terms and conditions of the discussion and its impact have been negotiated well in advance.
The Yankees will not void Giambi's contract. Why not?
1) When he gets off the DL, he will resume hitting homers.
2) The players union never surrenders and never loses.
What will happen if the Yanks seek to invalidate the contract?
1) Giambi will receive any and all back pay and all future pay. At least.
2) The Yankees will be without a power-hitting player in their quest to make the playoffs.
MLB will never be complicit in anything that might tend to harm the Yankees' quest for the playoffs and a postseason series with the Red Sox.

 

If it were, the players union never would have agreed to the terms set for this meeting.

 

Giambi is not going to tell Mitchell anything he didn't already tell the BALCO grand jury and USA Today.
He is not going to implicate any other player. He is only going to talk about his own using.
In exchange for the appearance of Mitchell/Selig finally having gotten a player to cooperate with them, Giambi will not be fined or suspended, the Yankees will make no attempt to discipline him or void his contract, Giambi will again offer an apology for "what I did" without ever saying in public what he did.

In other words, nothing new here.

 

So, we're just to blindly believe he'll come off the DL and start hammering balls out of ballparks? Giambi hit seven home runs in the 45 games he has played this season. That's an average of one homer every six games. Multiply that by 162, he'd finish with 23 homers. He's projected to play 137 games, homering 21 times, an average of one home run every 6.5 at-bats.

Mark Kriegel's new Foxsports.com column:

 

the thing that most people seem to be glossing over is that NOTHING IS FORCING GIAMBI TO ACTUALLY SAY ANYTHING OF SUBSTANCE IN HIS MEETING WITH MITCHELL. he's not under oath and you can bet they won't be releasing transcripts. it's a meeting. big fucking deal.

kriegel is right. mitchell should interview selig, not the players.

 

Selig has tried to position himself as being above the fray and he appointed a friend of the club owners to run the investigation in his efforts to ensure he and club owners wouldn't be found culpable.

Mitchell is a board member for the Red Sox, a reliable ally as a member of the Commissioner's Blue Ribbon Panel on Economics, and someone who has been rumored as interested in the Commissioner job. You can't get much more conflicted than that.

It's ridiculous that anyone is taking this seriously and you have to ask why this obvious conflict is totally ignored by much (but certainly not all) of the news media.

 

I agree cranberry....I.m surprised more isn't being made about Mitchell being a Board member for the Red Sox.