I get that, but nobody even knew he said anything until mlb told them. Tim lost half a game, fine him and leave it be. Instead, they suspend him, everyone says why that is total bullshit, and then the MLB has to tell everyone he said a racist word which also has divided the conversation (whether he should or should not be able to say it, context, comparison to other situations like Schwarber).
the whole situation was handled extremely poorly by mlb starting with Joe West and they only made everything worse at every turn