Fuck the Cubs: Cubs Apologize After Playing ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ for Accused Domestic Abuser

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15. Chapman was punished by MLB, punished enough? That's gonna be argued

Professional baseball, like all professional sports, is about making huge amounts of money for investors. In this case, the Ricketts' family picked him up so the team could make money from their run at breaking the 100 year absence of a world series title.

There is obviously a very limited pool of elite baseball talent, and the investors who buy and trade the talent, want them in the game making money. So there is always pressure for special treatment.to enable the money-changing to continue.

But, as you know, special treatment is pretty common for the elite.

I have a clear memory of a now former POTUS who kept his job after an incident that would have cost me my job and career had I been --alleged-- to have done such a thing. The asymmetry of power I was trained by PR departments to see as preventing true consent, was dismissed with minor punishment by the Arkansas Bar. He then went on to trade on the celebrity being POTUS had given him to become a multi-millionaire.

I remember the liberal cry at the time to have been MOVE-ON! Some DLCers it seemed were 'ours' and therefore allowed to get beyond their offense to get on with life quite well.

Was that political privilege? White privilege? A matter of being defensive about 'us' and 'our party'? Other? All of the above?