Selig stays on
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Bud Selig will be running the good ship steroids at least through 2012.
It’s a no brainer the owners want to keep him. Afterall, he knows where all the bodies are buried. A good thing to know when Congress is poking around.
I never liked Selig as commissioner because I believe his interests don’t lie with baseball as much as they do the owners.For the sport to be properly run, the commissioner shouldn’t be in one camp.
Baseball is making money like never before, but Selig’s legacy to me will be steroids, killing the 1994 World Series and the gimmick interleague play. None of them are good.
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Baseball making money like never before is an understatement.
Its up like… 600% and if none of the things he’s done are good then how is that possible. At the end of the day you can’t deny the “production”.
It’s like saying a baseball player is no good and sucks meanwhile he bats .350 with 50 HR’s and 150 RBI’s or something.
Kinda wierd analogy I know but you get my drift.
To Benny (RE: Selig): I do get your drift. There’s no question needles in the players’ butts filled seats. It’s all in how you look at it. For Selig and the owners it’s all about the bottom line and immediate financial gratification. There are other measures of success and Selig has sacrificed some tradition and integrity and the dollar value on that has yet to be determined.-JD
FYI – Dates for Player/Trainer depositions with Congress have just been announced:
Knoblach: 1/24
Clemens: 1/26
Pettitte: 1/30
McNamee: 1/31
Radomski: 2/1
So they changed the dates?
The whole Steroids/Congress/Clemens thing is a nice lead up to spring training 08.
Thanks Bud!
Slamming just Selig while ingoring Fehr’s complicity isn’t fair and it’s simplistic revisionist history.
The player’s union is more guilty for the steriod problem than Selig. Selig did attempt to address the use of sterioid by putting in place a rigrous testing program in the minor leagues YEARS before MLB. The player’s union membership did not include minor league players and the union didn’t have the ability to obstruct Selig because of that. The union objected any attempt to regulate steriods at every opportunity and it wasn’t until Congress became involved in 2005 that the union agreed kicking and screaming to having a more rigorous testing program with with significant penalties if a player was found to be violating the new regualtions. The union had and does place more value on dues from its membership and the union’s image than the health of its membership and the integrity of the game. To this day the union continues to obstruct any attempt to really regulate the use of steriods and HGH with its refusal to allow year round random blood testing of players under the guise of ‘personal privacy.’
It takes two to tango here and the union wouldn’t dance then and still won’t dance now.
Yeah he can sacrifice all he wants, it doesn’t seem to bother the fans! Attendence continues to go up.
Maybe if people can show me in ANY way how ignorng intergity and all this other jazz effects the fans in a negative way I’d buy into the argument but the fact of the matter is attendence continues to go up to amazing numbers.
I would say that’s proof it doesn’t bother people as much as you would believe.
No dave, they didn’t change the hearing dates. The depositions willl not be public. Its the lawyers getting the poor guys in private trying to set them up for the publiuc show.
Astoria: Are you given blood tests regularly by your employer? What professional sport in the US has a regular blood testing system in place? NONE. You can attack Fehr all you want as he certainly isn’t Mr Nice Guy, but when the last contract was up Selig didn’t give a hoot about drug testing. He signed off on a deal without drug testing substance to keep the money flow coming in, and took credit, rightfully so I guess, for making labor peace in baseball. And if he did care, which is possible, do you think the owners would have agreed to shut the game down to get strict drug testing. They shut it down in 94 over $$$. They’d never shut it down over drug use.
Yes. It takes two to tango to be sure. But at the end of the day the commissioner is the face of baseball as an organization. The duties of the job properly constructed is to safeguard the integrity of the game from both the owners and the players.
Selig has not done that. Any of his 3 predecessors tower over him in comparison. To boot he has spent the past however many years presiding over the eviceration of the soul of baseball.
You can compare this to the president of the united states. He also does not have absolute power and needs the cooperation of congress to get anything done as they are empowered to actually draft and pass laws that drive this country. But the president is held accountable for the actions of this country for good or for bad; and rightly so.
Dave
sloppy: Tennis does mandate blood testing 4 times a year with no advance warning. The question of course is do you consider tennis a big enough professional sport. I guess since no one cares that they do blood testing I have answered my own question.
Thanks Scott: That is very impressive for tennis. Tennis players have big payoffs so it must be as major as hockey at least!
dave: That was an awesome post.
benny: I agree with you about fans. The owners want to make $$$ and we want to win World Series and Super Bowls. If Guillermo Mota would have had an ERA of 1.68 last year nobody would have uttered a word about his steroid use. Pat fans love Moss who is a real low life. In Oakland, they hate him.
Thanks Sloppy.
Baseball owners have been trying to make money ever since they started to charge admission to see the games. When was that, 1869 with the Cincinnati Red Stockings (now the Atlanta Braves). At least with Bud the pretense of “impartial commissioner” Hall of Famer Bowie Kuhn had is gone. Give me cold blunt honesty anyday.
Selig deserves major hits for canceling the 1994 world series. His main problem with steroids has been he can’t cover it up like the NFL. Congress subpoenas McGwire, Sosa, Knoblauch, etc but not Romankowski, Merriman or the Steeler asst team physician with $150,000 in HGH.
I like interleague. I might make some small tweaks but I find it fun. No one ever complains about others having it.