Grass, MLB, and A-Rod

So why is it that -- I can pay big bucks for a bag of Grade A guaranteed-to-grow in sun or shade grass seed, spread it in even more high dollar bags of Mircle-Gro topsoil, including covering it with the recommended 1/4 inch, and lovingly water it every day -- and no grass grows. But when wind-blown lawn clippings find their way into the vegetable garden, every last one of those suckers seems to take root and sprout up overnight like Jack's beanstalk? I dunno. Sometimes Mother Nature can be a real bi---, well, you know.

Enough with Bud Selig and Major League Baseball rattling their sabers and threatening this and that for the guys on their PED hit-list. It's been months now. Whatever incriminating evidence they may or may not have isn't going to change. Do something or shut up.

Thing is, they HAVE to do something. After all the hype, which they've likely generated themselves with various "leaks" through "anonymous sources", and the ensuing media circus, there's no way MLB can back down. They're in way too deep. Right or wrong, legally, contractually, or collective bargainly with the players' union, they have no choice but to keep their heads lowered and charge. Anything less than that would strip Bud Selig of whatever shred of credibility he may or may not have ever had amongst the masses. So SOMETHING has to happen. I just wish they'd quit with their ivory tower circle jerk and get on with it already.

At that, it's also been reported many of the players on MLB's list have already agreed to accept 50 game suspensions and not contest them. That's their choice. But nobody would doubt Alex Rodriguez headlines the marquis. He's their current poster child, and they want to make an example of him. The latest anonymous sources say MLB is going to slap A-Rod with a 214 game suspension. An arbitrary number picked out of a hat? Hardly. That just so happens to be how many games are left in this (Yankee) season combined with the 162 in 2014. So Rodriguez would be done until the 2015 campaign when he'd be approaching 40 years old.

Just one problem. It seems A-Rod doesn't want to roll over and play dead. After trying to negotiate a settlement with MLB, presumably for a much lesser penalty, talks broke down. Now both sides are digging in. MLB has the might of it's office and virtually unlimited financial resources to wage such a war. Rodriguez has 3 high-falootin legal firms in his own corner. A serious team of some mighty shrewd and likely cutthroat legal-eagles are raring to go.

This could get ugly.

They say something will likely happen in a couple days.

Yeah? Well the guy who sold me that grass seed keeps telling me the same thing.

Come to think of it -- he looked a lot like Bud Selig.

Hmmm.