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Michael Eisner did not care for the rules. He would look out for his kingdom, in a way that would seem perfectly logical to Arte Moreno, and to a good many fans too. If a player on your team was involved with cocaine, how could the team be forbidden from taking disciplinary action?In Baseball Land, the employees have a powerful union to protect their interests. And so, on Friday, the commissioner of baseball was reduced to issuing a statement that essentially said, "Yes, I would have suspended Josh Hamilton, but I had no authority to do so."In 1997, when the Walt Disney Co. owned the Angels and infielder Tony Phillips was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession, Eisner treated him as he would have treated any other Disney employee. The Angels directed him to enter a treatment program and suspended him when he would not.
