If Peyton Manning got a ticket for going 110 would you say the Broncos should trade him? What about Tom Brady? Lebron? No, no, no to all of them. Just because Puig is a 23 year old kid who has made a few dumb mistakes is no reason for the Dodgers to give up on the guy who could be the most exciting player in the league for a long time to come.
Puig isn't Manning or Brady. He's potential, not the franchise. We all know star athletes get preferential treatment. It startsvearly in life. I'm just shocked how many posters are shrugging off multiple dangerous offenses as " boys will be boys."
Nobody's shrugging it off, but if you have an employee who's worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to your bottom line and who can't be trivially replaced, he gets more chances than the the guy who you can replace tomorrow and is only worth thousands. That's not inherently right or wrong, and it's not different in baseball than it is in any other profession.
Let's be honest, there are a lot of people who have a preconceived dislike for Puig for one reason or another (there's all the "play the game the right way" BS, for instance). Those people are looking for excuses to find fault with him for moral failings they already attribute to him, and this is as good a fault as any. Then there are those who recognize that in the pantheon of stupid/criminal things done by athletes/rich/famous people this particular incident is fairly pedestrian, and that while deserving of appropriate corrective action it's not some inherent flaw in his character that makes him somehow special or different than other people who've done similar things.