For a moment late Friday afternoon, I thought I had accidentally called up an old email. Or that Major League Baseball had accidentally sent an old email.
Nope. Jenrry Mejia, amazingly, had once again tested positive for an illegal performance-enhancing drug, becoming the first baseball player ever to draw a lifetime suspension for drug usage.
It isn’t quite that simple, though. I admittedly had to study up on the nuances of baseball’s Joint Drug Agreement when it comes to lifetime suspensions. It isn’t just that Mejia established a precedent.