Sponcil noted that Kearns "smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech." Kearns told Sponcil that he had had a couple of bourbon and cokes at Harry's Bar in Lexington. Jessamine County Deputy Sheriff Todd Sponcil went to the scene, and the off-duty officer told Sponcil that Kearns had driven down an emergency lane without headlights and was weaving on the road, the report says. 12 by an off-duty Fayette County officer on Golf Club Drive in Nicholasville, according to an arrest report on file in Jessamine County. This is the report of events concerning Kearns' arrest from : Here is a list of major league players who have violated the law, the public’s trust, and who clearly just don’t get it.įor the purposes of keeping this list from taking a month out of my time, it is restricted to just alcohol-related offenses.įor continuing coverage of Major League Baseball, follow Doug on Twitter Author's note: I am a recovering alcoholic, and have been sober for 22 years, and was arrested four times for driving under the influence of alcohol.Īustin Kearns, currently playing for the Cleveland Indians, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in February, and the only way the Indians even knew about it was hearing about it in the newspapers. The issue will not be addressed until MLB and the Players’ Union negotiate their next collective bargaining agreement, so until then, we will count the days until another high profile baseball player decides that they are above the law. While we can certainly argue the harshness or leniency of the punishment based on his absolutely appalling actions, at least the Braves were in a position to at least do something.īecause of the collective bargaining agreement between the MLB and MLBPA, major league executives and teams have their hands tied with respect to punishing any player who makes the supremely stupid decision to get behind the wheel of a car when drunk. MLB at least suspended McDowell for two weeks. There have been other transgressions, most recently the allegation that Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell made homophobic comments and crude sexual gestures toward fans and threatened a fan with a bat prior to a game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. There have also been at least four other incidents of players who were arrested for DUI within the last several months as well. Just in the last week alone, two high-profile players were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, and yet they were both on the field contributing for their teams without any threat of punishment whatsoever, at least not from Major League Baseball. However, the MLB and the MLBPA has completely turned a blind eye on one of the most public of causes and concerns: drunk driving. Several suspensions have been handed out, and MLB continues to work with the Players’ Union in order to inform and educate players on the dangers and consequences of taking PEDs. While many will say the new policy was too late, MLB at least took the steps suggested by the Mitchell Report. Steroids and performance enhancing drugs are now being tested for under Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, and players are now paying a very steep price for any transgressions. After strike two, he pointed with his right hand - to starting pitcher Charlie Root, or to the dugout, or out to the flagpole beyond center-field - and on the very next pitch, he hit one onto Sheffield Avenue to put the Yankees ahead for good.Major league has at least made an effort in recent years to stop turning a blind eye to what was going on right in front of them. He took strike one, exchanged some words and held up one finger to Chicago's dugout.
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We know that he was, well, Babe Ruth: the living legend, the movie star, the consummate showman, the man who once mailed a sick child a baseball with the message "I'll knock a homer for you on Wednesday," then went out and hit three.We know that he was fired up - Chicago was giving it to him from every direction, from the stands to the dugout, and he was giving it right back.
"He ought to hit one today maybe a couple.” Then he went out and went yard in his first at-bat. His batting practice was, by all accounts, jaw-dropping: “ on fire,” Gehrig told the Tribune after taking it in. We know that he was really, really feeling it that day.341/.489/.661 during the regular season, good for a truly bonkers 201 OPS+. We know that Ruth, even in decline at age 37 (1932 marked the first time in seven years that he didn't lead the Majors in home runs) was still arguably the best baseball player on the planet.
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