This is kinda like when Oscar Madison and Felix Unger were in a retreat at a monastery, and they were forced to serve penance by baking bread and keeping silent for 24 hours, and they couldn’t even make it to breakfast without getting three strikes each.
The difference was that in this case, when Felix thought they were expelled from the retreat, Richard Stahl says “No, there is no punishment. You failed at a task, and we’re forgiven. Possibly when you go back out there, your employees, your friends and loved ones may fail at something, and you won’t be so hard on them. People do fail, you know.”
Jenrry Mejia failed three times in less than a year. And now he goes back out there … to a life without the major leagues. And it’s for good, as three strikes doesn’t get him free breakfast with the fellas. Three strikes comprising of a combination of Stanozolol and Boldenone get him a one way ticket to a lifetime ban. Hopefully he won’t be so hard on the people who fail him. Because he should be the last person to be hard on anybody.
We on the outside will wonder how somebody could really risk a lifetime ban, especially just as the team he’s on is entering the good times. He’s going to miss out on it. And everything else. We may never know the answer to that. Hopefully he’ll shine some light on it in a 30-for-30 or something. If baseball hopes to get a handle on why the lure to PED’s is so strong that someone would risk getting clipped three times in less than one year, then we need to know his story. Baseball needs to know his story. I’d love to know his story.
But unfortunately, the part of the story that involves him throwing baseballs for the Mets … or any other major league team … ends here.
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