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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 2, 2000
Baseball
Braves' reliever gets time relief
Baseball arbitrator cuts suspension, fine
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — John Rocker's suspension was cut in half to the first 14 days of the regular season, allowing him to report to the Atlanta Braves' spring training camp today.
Shyam Das, making his first decision as baseball's independent arbitrator, also cut Rocker's $20,000 fine to $500 in a decision announced yesterday.
"I think it's fair," Braves pitcher Tom Glavine said. "It allows him some of spring training to get ready for the season. ... If not, you run the risk of John ruining his career. No one wants that. That would be unfair."
The reliever, punished for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in a magazine interview, is expected to address teammates today in Kissimmee, Fla., then hold a news conference.
Rocker originally was suspended for all 45 days of spring training and the first 28 days of the regular season by commissioner Bud Selig.
"I disagree with the decision," Selig said. "It does not reflect any understanding of or sensitivity to the important social responsibility that baseball ... has to the public. It completely ignores the sensibilities of those groups of people
maligned by Mr. Rocker and disregards the player's position as a role model for children."
Atlanta city councilman Derrick Boazman, leader of a coalition of minority groups that has called for the Braves to release Rocker, also was unhappy with the decision.
Former NL president Len Coleman, who had been the sport's top minority official, echoed that view.
"Hate and bigotry and homophobia and racism have a place, evidently, and that place is in major league baseball," he said.
"Baseball must be a socially responsible institution," he said. "The arbitrator's ruling undermines the disciplinary system and sends precisely the wrong message."
Braves general manager John Schuerholz, who noted there was interest from other teams in acquiring Rocker, said Atlanta was prepared to accept Rocker back.
"We don't anticipate there will be a problem," he said. "I think John realizes he needs to mend his place in this team with his teammates."
In his Jan. 31 decision, Selig said Rocker's comments in a December issue of Sports Illustrated offended practically every element of society.
Rocker will wind up missing the first 13 days of spring training and, if no games are postponed by weather, the first 12 games of the regular season. Atlanta's
"I think this is good all the way around," Braves reliever Rudy Seanez said. "Everybody is ready to get past it and move on."
first game after the suspension is against Philadelphia at Turner Field on April 18.
Rocker told the magazine he would never play for a New York team because he didn't want to ride a subway train next to a homosexual with AIDS. He also mocked foreigners and called a Latin teammate a "fat monkey."
Randall Simon, who thinks he was the target of Rocker's "fat monkey" comment, said yesterday that he is ready to forgive.
"If he comes to me and apologizes, everything will be all right," Simon said. "He's one of my teammates. Everybody makes mistakes."
Simon said he hopes Rocker will address the team as a whole, as well as offer him a personal apology.
Brian Jordan, another of Rocker's harshest critics, said Rocker has to change his ways.
"He has to be more mature dealing with certain situations and dealing with his teammates," Jordan said. "He has to learn to control his anger. I think that's a big reason he said what he said."
The players' association filed a grievance against Selig, arguing the penalty was too great when compared with past discipline by the commissioner's office. The union repeatedly has succeeded in convincing arbitrators to overturn or reduce suspensions.
TAMPA, Fla. — For the third time in 10 years, Darryl Strawberry is taking a side trip to a treatment center, hoping he can get help for the cocaine problem that ended his season before it ever began.
The New York Yankees slugger disclosed his plans yesterday, two days after commissioner Bud Selig suspended him for one year.
The Associated Press
Yankee checks himself into rehab
"By the time you read this statement, I
have checked myself into a drug rehabilitation clinic, where I intend to be for the foreseeable future," Strawberry said in a release faxed to the team's spring training office by his agent.
"My goal is to take control of my drug addiction once and for all, and I believe this step is required in order to do so," Strawberry said.
It was his first comment since the penalty, the third drug-related suspension of Strawberry's career. Selig did not make any provision for the troubled star to return early for good behavior.
The statement, sent by agent Eric Grossman, does not detail where Strawberry is having treatment. A baseball source, speaking on the condition he not be identified, said the center was in Florida but not in the Tampa area.
Strawberry thanked his teammates, manager Joe Torre, owner George Steinbrenner, the entire Yankees organization and his doctors for support, love, understanding and hope.
"I also want to say to the fans everywhere, many of whom I certainly understand are disappointed and perhaps even angry at me, I will work everyday of my life to restore the belief you have had in me," he said.
In 1990, Strawberry entered the Smithers Center in New York for alcohol rehabilitation. And in 1994, he spent 28 days at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for treatment of a substance abuse problem.
Strawberry's latest suspension has been the talk all week at Yankees' camp. David Cone, perhaps the Yankees player closest to Strawberry, voiced feelings of regret on Tuesday.
"I'm extremely depressed," the pitcher said. "It's tough watching close friends stumble again."
While they hope he can come back next year, his teammates know there's a chance the eight-time All-Star — who turns 38 in two weeks — might be done in baseball.
The two-time World Series champions hoped Strawberry would be their main designated hitter this season. He is a career .259 hitter with 335 home runs and 1,000 RBI.
It was revealed last week that Strawberry had failed a cocaine test in January. A day later, baseball ordered him off the practice field. Strawberry has not been at camp since that morning.
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