mth123 (01-14-2014)
He gets the blame for DOING NOTHING. He turned a blind eye to what was going on because baseball was raking in too much money. He was a commissioner who for years was more concerned with making owners money than making sure the playing field was level. Selig stood by silently as players made a mockery of the game.
Now, after the cow is long out of the barn, he decides to pursue the Biogenesis suspensions with the eagerness of a fundmentalist zealot.
A Hall of Fame that is in chaos and records that no longer mean anything. Some legacy, Bud.
bigredmechanism (01-14-2014)
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
Except in this situation, you wouldn't have a law or procedure for prosecuting people who steal. So what's to dissuade people from stealing, if there's no way to catch them or punish them?
Maybe it's a mentality thing- I don't think you can do literally nothing to solve an ongoing problem and then cry foul about it later. And to address the "it takes two to tango" point, I don't remember (to be fair, I was very young) any declaration of Selig's during 1998 or 2001 that steroid testing needed to be implemented ASAP- it seemed to come about following Bonds' decline, and was directly related to the "Bonds is a jerk, so let's all witch-hunt his steroid past" thing.
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
ARod has dropped his lawsuits.
http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/story?storyId=10420424
Bummer
Go Gators!
I think Arod has had a dose of reality. If he sues everybody associated with baseball including his own union he stands a good chance to never play MLB again. He would be blacklisted.
I think he now feels he has a year to get healthy, maybe play some baseball in central America, or Japan and make a comeback. If he is healthy, and produces wherever he decides to play baseball someone will sign him for the 2015 season.
1st pick of the 2023 baseball amateur draft
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