Perennial
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Pete Rose literally bet on baseball outcomes as a player and a manager - which has legally been a lifetime ban from baseball and ethically bankrupt. Pujols is a better player and a better man than Rose.
And you really want to go down the slippery slope that "defrauding an MLB team should come with a lifetime ban"? So all of the Latin American players (who are teens/very young adults, for clarification - people don't make very smart decisions then. I know I didn't.) who use different names on their birth certificates for various reasons (Carlos Martinez comes to mind as one such example, and he didn't lie; he had his contract with the Red Sox voided because of a difference in his family name - and I'm sure he's not the only player who had those kinds of issues) get banned from baseball for good?
I get that Pujols didn't have his best years with the Angels (I'm assuming you're a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim fan?), but you need to channel your inner Elsa and let it go. You still have Trout, and Pujols is almost at the end of his contract. So I honestly don't understand why you're so up-in-arms, calling him worse than Rose, saying he should be banned from baseball for something that has literally been happening for decades.
I don't see any issue with a manager or player betting on their team to win the game, and neither does the legal system... yes, it violates the rules of MLB, but it's not a criminal offense
As long as they don't bet against their own team, there's no victim involved...
If Pujols lied about his age during contract negotiations, he committed fraud, and the Angels would then be the victim of that fraud
I'm not "up-in-arms" about it, I'm pointing out the severity of that act from both a legal and ethical standpoint...
We're not talking about an 18 year old who got caught in a bar with a fake ID...
We're talking about an already wealthy grown man committing fraud in order to secure himself a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars
The fact that the Angels still have Trout, or that other Latin players have lied about their age in the past is completely irrelevant
If Pujols did lie about his age, it absolutely should come with a lifetime ban from baseball... and if that's the only punishment he received, I think he would be getting off easy
And, no, I'm not an Angels fan...