re: Luke Heimlich signed by Chinese team, but move will reportedly be denied by league

IINM he was a Level 1 offender until the records were sealed last year and everything expunged, which meant he was the lowest-risk for repeat violation. Also IINM all the psych evals and things to that effect around the time of his conviction conveyed he was not a risk to repeat nor was he likely to be a creepy criminal pedophile by any stretch. I’m not gonna relitigate this stuff again but there’s clearly some mitigating, redeeming stuff that should not have made this situation a death sentence for a likely lucrative MLB career, if that ever came to light which it wouldn’t have last August had OR not screwed up prior. Facts don’t care about our feelings.

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Zero tolerance policy!

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... And second chances.

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IINM he was a Level 1 offender until the records were sealed last year and everything expunged, which meant he was the lowest-risk for repeat violation.

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“I’m not trying to defend him or anything, but...I just know all the details that I think make him look better”

Dude is a child molester plain and simple. MLB teams don’t want the media shite storm and headache

Keep trying to make a child molester look good.

You and pride can be friends.

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This is interesting to me. Whether the guy actually did what he was accused of or not is irrelevant because in the eyes of the US criminal justice system he admitted that he did (regardless of claims of poor advice, mistake in judgment pleading, etc.).

He is a convicted felon. But does that mean he should NEVER be able to be employed again? Or is that just limited to professional baseball? Certainly private businesses should have the right to decline employment to anyone they choose. But in recent years we've seen a big push, largely from liberals, that employers should no longer even be allowed to ask if an applicant is a convicted felon. So is the outrage just limited to professional baseball? Or, is there going to be outrage anytime he seeks employment in any field? Or, is child molestation just one of those crimes that is unforgivable to any degree?

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you're an idiot. It has to do with the fact that whatever team signs him will be viewed negatively and potentially lose money. Or, MLB as a whole has decided as such. Perfectly acceptable.

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You are though. You literally said the ONLY reason this is happening is because of the paper. Not the fact that he fricking molested a child. The only reason the paper was able to release that info is because HE did it in the first place. Shift blame all you want, but it will always come back to the child molester. He is the only one to blame for his karma.

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Would we have known about this had OR not screwed up? The conviction occurred 6 years ago, no one in the national media reported on it when he started winning Gatorade HS POY honors, college POY honors and things of that nature, IINM it was public record until last August why didn't people make a stink of it or even raise it until OR screwed up that June? It makes literally zero sense and that screw up cost him millions in MLB money.

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there’s clearly some mitigating, redeeming stuff that should not have made this situation a death sentence for a likely lucrative MLB career

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I see that as up to MLB teams. They have a choice about who to draft and offer.

Heimlich can't control the thinking of teams or Oregon making it public. He certainly could have controlled not committing the crime. It's that decision of his that all the rest of this comes from.

Molesting someone...there are certain risks you run.

A child molester in Asia. What could possibly go wrong?

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The biggest bullshite in the history of sports, the only reason this is happening to this young man WHO SHOULD BE making millions in the majors is a clerical error by the Oregon state police, I do not feel well for Heimlich

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This is more bullshite than when black people couldn't participate in different professional league or at different universities just because they were black?

Really? A convicted pedophile being shunned is more bullshite than that?

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Not defending anything, but no one would've known had it not been for the clerical error and likely no one would ever know once the court records of that case got sealed 2 months after that story broke

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Nobody gives a shite how the story came out. He pleaded guilty to finger banging a toddler. That’s not defendable.