Start with common human decency.
It wasn't Oregon State administrators or coaches who sat star pitcher Luke Heimlich on Friday for an undetermined amount of time. It was the player himself -- an admitted, convicted sex offender who molested a then-six-year-old girl.
After a Portland Oregonian story detailed his sordid background as a teenager this week, Heimlich himself said Friday in a statement that he "requested to be excused from playing at this time."
For a day? For a week? For now? Forever? We don't know. Heimlich is eligible for the 2017 MLB Draft, so hopefully this is the last we see of the junior who probably shouldn't have been allowed to build an 11-1 record and sub-1.