Ryan played with a travel baseball team I coached. The nicest kid you would ever want to meet. I think the punishment and example they made of him is disgraceful. Consider this fact, a full grown adult major league player, Guillermo Mota takes steroids and he gets a 50 game suspension. An 18 year old kid, cooks up a stunt to sneak in and meet his baseball idol, the idol that for years he'd been paying way too much to see, and he gets a 243 game suspension. That's justice in the MLB.

He's not the first person to wear a disguise at Shea. Bobby Valentine did it? What was his punishment.

Jay Horowitz and the Mets should be embarrassed. I hope they can all look back to the crazy things they did when they were teenagers and say that they never did anything worse than this, because I'm pretty sure most people can't.

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