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I do believe a harsh punishment was needed... but I do not think the other owners will force Sterling to sell.
I bet there are at least a half dozen owners who go to church... and since it this incident will be long remembered ... chances are good that sometime in the future one of these Bible believers gets asked about homosexuality and the Bible.
Now-a-days there is almost no way to defend the Bible and not offend someone... especially someone in the media who is looking for revenge on one of these owners.
Thus, if the owners set the bar for losing a team based on politically incorrect speech - and the list of what is politically incorrect to talk about is rapidly expanding - be it pro Bible, to dressing like a black person for Halloween, to now the latest being Dartmouth students offending Mexicans by celebrating Cinco de Mayo by drinking Mexican beer and tequila... that would be just plain foolish to try to meet that bar in these times of intolerance towards free speech - regardless of how horrid that speech is.
Therefore the owners would be setting themselves up to have their franchises held as hostages to the media if they followed Silver's recommendations, since the media will be able to get rid of any owners that they deem politically incorrect at some point in the future.
Just imagine what one of Geoff Baker's articles put in the politically incorrect light could have done to Howard Lincoln and the rest of Mariner management.