If there were (steroids) problems, I wanted them revealed," he said. "If there were individuals who engaged in wrongdoing, I wanted those facts to come to light. If there were recommendations that would improve our drug testing programs, I wanted to hear them. Commissioner Bud.
Is it just me or does not Bud Selig look like the guy who played Mr. Wilson on the old Dennis the Menace series? He just seems to get fooled and surprised all the time. It would not be so amazing, if he were not the COMMISSIONER OF FREAKING BASEBALL!
Bud’s comments in light of the findings by Senator George Mitchell were transparent and self-serving. Bud knew, as every owner knew, that players were using clever enhancements to recover faster from injuries, build muscle mass, and perform at otherworldly levels! MLB spent $20 million researching the steroid issue when collectively they all made billions while the players were smoking the HGH huka. Do the math: No victim, no liability and the fans come back to the park, team valuations balloon, it is all good.
Now Bud wants us to believe he was bamboozled. He had no clue that all of this was going on right under his watch. What every true baseball fan in
If I were Roger Clemens, I would have shut the hell up, waited out the weekend and let this all die down. Sports media consumption is like Chinese food and we all want something new and different 20 minutes later. Roger, you are not going to sue. You are not going to do anything. You did not even make your own statement of outrage. You had your agent do it. Guilty guys always do that. You have been banking $18-20 million a year when guys your age should be doing cell phone commercials with their wives. Did any other pitcher win a Cy Young at 42 years old? Roger deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. He also deserves every bit of the heat he is getting for his alleged use of steroids. Right now, I would not want to be Roger the sports icon, Roger the pillar in the community, and Roger the father who has to face and answer to his friends and family.
Jose Canseco was right! He was eight for eight on the people he said used steroids and ended up on the list. He is still an idiot trying to sell books and pay off ex-wives. The Mitchell Report gave him what he deserved, one sentence.
Baseball did not do this investigation to get the truth. MLB knew the truth. They did this to cut their losses and stop the rest of the story. Admit some culpability, throw a big name or two to the wolves, do some penance, and keep the Feds off your ass.
There were 84 players named in the report. The names came from four sources, a club house nome from the Mets, Roger Clemens personal trainer and two aggressive pharmacies or “aging” centers that got raided with some very pesky paper trails.
I might be as naïve as Bud, but do you think there might be just one other clubhouse guy besides Kirk Radomski who got some juice for the players they idolize? Do you think there was possibly just one other trainer besides Brian McNamee who provided mother’s little helper to the athletes that they trained? Do you maybe think that there were more clinics/pharmacies than two that supplied the stuff but did not get raided?
Senator Mitchell is an attorney. He knew he needed bullet proof data before he named several very well paid plaintiffs represented by well paid attorneys, agents and business managers. So, do you think there might be another 25-50 players who were shrouded in complicity but not enough evidence to put them in the report? With 84 names in the can and a job well done, do we risk a law suit? What if there were maybe four other sources, would there be 168 names, or 276 or more? There are only 800 players in MLB. Do you think Bud wanted this to go much further? Do the math.
The 84 were offered up to the media so they could gnash and chew and the Budster could say he had been courageous and righteous in the face of evil. Were there any current superstars listed there? Roger Clemens is done. Andy Pettite should not have hung out with Roger but he is also pretty well done. Paul LoDuca, Eric Gagne, Paul Byrd, Lenny Dykstra, Todd Hundley?! This was a “Bring out your dead” kind of report. There was not one person mentioned who is an impact player, who has much of a career left or more importantly who is the current face of baseball. What about A-Rod? What about Albert Puljos? I have no evidence that they used HGH but it would seem unlikely that they did not.
Bud Selig is the absolute worst commissioner of any sport in this galaxy and possibly any known galaxy. Despite his ineptitude and malfeasance, is the only victim of this episode the baseball fan? And what are we a victim of? The tarnishing of the records and statistics that we hold so dear? Integrity, truth and realism in sports? WTF. I go the park to see big strong pitchers throw 98 mph heat to a hillbilly circus freak who can go yard on a pitch in the dirt. What do I care if his testicles shrink, he beats his wife, and he dies at age 51? He probably made more money for the five games I got to attend last year than I will earn in 20 years. We all have our own problems. Be pissed, boo Bud but get over it. Please dim the lights, the real show is about to begin….
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