Baseball player who beat wife allowed to play

Cause what’s a little domestic violence compared with America’s favorite pastime?
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers, 25, has been charged with assault and battery after he assaulted his wife in front of numerous witnesses.

Courtney Knight, 26, who witnessed the alleged attack at 900 Boylston St. with two friends, said in a telephone interview that Myers seemed “really angry.”
“He was dragging her by the hair and slapping her across the face,” Knight said. `”She was yelling, `I’m not going to let you do this to me anymore.’ ”
Knight said the 6-foot-4 -inch, 240-pound ballplayer dwarfed his wife, whom police report at 5 feet 4 inches and 120 pounds.
“She’s a real small girl,” Knight said. “It was awful.”
Knight said Myers was undeterred by the presence of her and her friends.
“He had her on the ground,” Knight said. “He was trying to get her to go, and she was resisting. She curled up and sat on the ground. He was pulling her, her shirt was up around her neck. . . . He could have cared less that we were there.”

Nice guy, huh? But here’s the best part.

Mike Teevan, a spokesman for Major League Baseball, said the league has no policy requiring suspension of players charged or convicted in domestic violence cases.
“We’re obviously very concerned about it,” Teevan said. “But it was an off-field incident and it’s the player’s private life. We’re going to let the legal system run its course.”

His private life? He beat the shit out of his wife in the middle of the street. That’s fucking assualt, not his “private life.”