"The decision on the sentencing of this gentlemen has only satisfied us 5 percent of what we expect or what we wanted it, or what a sentence should be. Bales took the witness stand on Thursday and apologized. He called the killings an "act of cowardice." He told the judge presiding over the case that "there is not a good reason in the world for the horrible things I did."Defense lawyers have said Bales suffered from posttraumatic stress syndrome from the pressures of four deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that he was dependent on alcohol and drugs.Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig must have felt betrayed when he heard the news that Mets CEO Fred Wilpon had desires of becoming the Steve Wynn of Flushing. Selig has long been one of Wilpon's strongest allies, even during the darkest days of the Madoff scandal. He gave the Mets the 2013 AllStar Game as a token of that friendship..

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