Baseball punishments suck. :twisted: What sucks isn't that he can still play in the All-Star Game. What sucks is that the only effect of a five-game suspension is that he'll have to pitch the second game back after the All-Star break rather than the first; being pushed back one day, as opposed to actually missing a start, is getting off free. If the All-Star Game were included as you seem to want then he'd only miss 4 regular season games, which would merely be the games he'd be missing between starts anyway. The All-Star Game should not be one of the five games missed. He should miss the game because he was suspended. Suspended players should not be allowed to participate in the All-Star Game that year. For pitchers, it should not be 5 games missed, but rather 5 starts (this is what happens to position players...5 starts). So a position player should miss 5/162 3% of the season and a starting pitcher should miss 5/32 or 16% of the season? That sounds fair. That is too much, but there has to be a happy medium. Young's 5/162 punishment is not a 1/32 because he doesn't even miss one start. He is simply pushed back a day.