Bud Selig should resign

[nuzzy62]

If you want to clean house, you've got to start at the top. Selig is bad for the game and can't be absolved for his roll in allowing this to happen. He's promising action, he should start with his resignation letter.

[RickD]

I agree 100%

[Alloutwar]

Listen - if you can find a more handsome, well-spoken representative of the sport, then maybe you'd have a chance at finding a replacement - but you can't! The man is gold.

[petrel]

I don't think he should resign, but I do think he should be shot out of a cannon.

--Pet

[BM_MAN]

Why was it his Idea for Players to use Steriods?

[HoustonGM]

What?

[Alloutwar]

BM_MAN to English conversion:

Bug Selig should resign? Why, was it his Idea for Players to use Steriods?

[HoustonGM]

Lol. Thanks for that. That's what I assumed..but..,I wanted to make sure..

In which case, no, it wasn't his idea, but he let it happen.

[BM_MAN]

Lol. Thanks for that. That's what I assumed..but..,I wanted to make sure..

In which case, no, it wasn't his idea, but he let it happen.

So He Knew but Let it happen because Batters and Pitchers were doing Better and More People came to the Sport?

[HoustonGM]

That's what i think.

[FRENCHREDSOX]

So He Knew but Let it happen because Batters and Pitchers were doing Better and More People came to the Sport?

3 Monkeys syndrome - ball was badly positioned post '94/95.Yes he did let it happen,yes he knew BUT & this a big but his hands were tied - as he had no CBA & was "fearful" of another strike.Basically he "was between a rock & a hard place".


His real mistake,IMO,was not using the 1990 Steroids Act as a basis for instauring REAL drug testing & openly admitting that the Unions were (& still are) the major blockers in any CBA deal on 'roids or any drug testing.The climate has changed,baseball as an industry is $6 billion plus,teams,owners & franchises are financially & emotionally stable.The fans (& again thank the hypocritical sports' writers*) want a "clean sport" & Selig is jumping on the band wagon.


Lower HR totals & non multi FA periods (I mean players hitting FA 3 or 4 times thanks to PEDs but also better food/training etc) has made Owners also jump on (basic money economics - a 20 HR FA costs less than a 40 HR FA)



* as in any sport most writers' knew the problem(& most probably knew WHO) but were happy to write glowing appraisals of the players,when today they happily bury the same guy.

[lkcostas]

Didja notice there wasn't much hoopla when McGwire admitting injecting/injesting something I can't even pronounce when he was on his way to breaking Maris' record? Why are people so pissed now?

[HoustonGM]

Didja notice there wasn't much hoopla when McGwire admitting injecting/injesting something I can't even pronounce when he was on his way to breaking Maris' record? Why are people so pissed now?

I'm glad I'm not the only person that realizes that absolutely irrational hypocrisy.

[robinhoodnik]

Because what he claimed to be using, was an over the counter sort of item, which at the time was available at any GNC.

[robinhoodnik]

If you want to clean house, you've got to start at the top. Selig is bad for the game and can't be absolved for his roll in allowing this to happen. He's promising action, he should start with his resignation letter.

I think baseball's come to a place in it's history where it needs another Kennesaw Landis type of figure. It needs to be cleaned up beyond a shadow of a doubt. I haven't talked to anyone who believes that those 86 players are all that were found by that commission.