Man Up Bud Selig
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by user BigPPup
Stop being such a damn coward, yes YOU Bud Selig, stop hiding and dodging the problem that you have created.
At a Fox Sports and News conference yesterday afternoon in San Francisco California, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was selected to be the keynote speaker. Of course Bud used this opportunity to tout his own accomplishments since becoming the head man in Americas former past time, proclaiming “we are living in the Golden Age of Baseball.” Bud praised himself for bringing the wild card and inter-league play to the majors. He praised himself for expanding the league. All of which the majority of people praises the sometimes aloof commissioner for bring to the sport.
However, fittingly enough being in San Francisco, it did not take long before the commentary soon turned to that 800 pound gorilla in the corner, steroids and Barry Bonds. Selig was proud for the new drug test that MLB has implimented, and is convinced that they will save baseball from itself.
However, there is one other loaming problem for Bud Selig to face that is quickly approaching. Barry Bonds is 22 homeruns away from breaking the all time homerun record. The odds are he will break Hank Aarons all time record sometime this season. When asked if Commissioner Selig would attend the game and ceremony where Bonds breaks the homerun record, Selig in typical lackadaisical fashion said, he would have to see if his schedule permits. Translation, “I want to avoid this if I can, and hopefully if I’m hiding people will forget my role in this.”
That’s right Bud, run, hide and ignore, because that has worked so well for you and your sport in the past. You ran and hid after the strike season of 94, and lucked out because of the efforts of men like Cal Ripken who brought life back to baseball. When the homeruns began to fly out the park in 1998, and the mysterious pills began to show in players lockers, you ignored it, and reveled in the resurgence of the long ball, posing for pictures with Sosa and friends.
Now it has all come home. For the last three years there has been a cloud over the sport of baseball, and with Bonds quickly approaching the homerun record the perfect storm is brewing, and rather than take it head on, make a stand and finally put to bed all this controversy over baseball, Selig is doing what he does best. He is running and hiding hoping it will all blow over just like it did in 1998.
Did Barry Bonds cheat? Probably. Did he do what others admitted to doing and countless others have yet to own up to doing during that same time? Yes he did. Is pretending that Barry Bonds and his new record doesn’t exist going to fix anything? Hell No.
I know that Bonds passing Aaron will create a tainted record. It’s not right, it’s not fair, but it is what it is. This is what happens when you ignore a problem, it doesn’t go away it just gets bigger. Now its time to man up and face the problem.
Bud Selig has made his bed and now he needs to lie in it. I am sick of his back peddling and flaying trying to avoid and dodge any and everything of substance. During his tenure Selig has transformed America’s past time from a once magical sport to a side show, with congressional hearings, and drug raids and God knows what else. Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's record is an opportunity for Bud Selig to stand up, set the record straight on steroids and testing and create a watershed moment for Major League Baseball. Instead Selig is once again sitting back and allowing the moment to pass, as his sport once again flounders under his watch.
