Comments on: Selig emerges as the winner

By: susan mullen

susan mullen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:14:31 +0000

They used to say “buy the stock market, it’s at an all time high.” But: “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” MLB Advanced Media will continue to earn, but baseball ticket sales will not. The two teams in the state of Florida, as much as I root for both of them when they’re not playing the Yankees, are not viable unfortunately. Florida is going broke just like the rest of the country. There’s nothing good about Allan H. “Bud” Selig except 2 things. First, he has enough dirt on these owners to force them to keep him. Second, if he weren’t selected, it might be Bob DuPuy who’s actually worse than Allan H. “Bud.” P.S. Paul Byrd used 1000 units of HGH and over 100 syringes, and only a few months ago silenced the media by telling them his condition was his own “private matter.”

By: matthew fraguela

matthew fraguela — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:02:56 +0000

DAS IT!

Funny how Selig’s old team just signed Gagne and Cameron (both named as users)…

By: bardos

bardos — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:00:17 +0000

the most important witness at the upcoming “steroid hearings” in washington will be our andy pettite. he’s on the spot; he’ll be under oath and obliged to answer some tough questions about a best friend. that’s why his lawyer is doing some fancy dancing at the moment making no committments.

By: george

george — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:25:54 +0000

regarding how disgusting most of Congress is, in the hearing Rep. Elijah Cummings digressed in his sanctimonious bloviating to point at Orioles owner Peter Angelos and praise him partnering w/some Baltimore anti-steroid group. This of course smells funny, because the Orioles got hit badly by Mitchell’s report, and Congress had just announced investigating Tejada.

So i looked up whether Angelos gives to Cummings’ campaigns – Cummings’ plug for Angelos was that blatant – and sure enough, Angelos contributed the maximum allowable to Cummings’ PAC. See:

http://www.campaignmoney.com/p.....p?cycle=06

i’m sure there’s more dough somewhere, this was just from a quick google to confirm my suspicions of this blatant payback.

By: EricNS

EricNS — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:07:00 +0000

The hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

By: murphydog

murphydog — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:45:44 +0000

In my experience, pride, and a big raise, usually goeth before a fall.

I think the Commish may be in for a bit of a surprise outside the cushy confines of Congress and the Baseball Moguls Club. There’s the Bonds case and the Clemens lawsuit yet to come. And fan reaction cannot be gauged by what happens in the House of Representatives. Bud better prepare for a severe backlash, at least from NY.

Until the Mitchell fiasco, objective journalists and sportswriters may have had a dislike for Selig but no motivation to dig into the guy and maybe write the real story about steroids, how Selig and the owners are as much if not more to blame than the players. Certainly the unfairness of scapegoating 80 or so players, with Clemens at the top of the heap, is not lost on the real fans or the writers. They know that something is rotten in the State of Denmark.

Selig may be skating now, but I suspect his legacy is going to be toast. Why? How’s this:

“When it comes right down [to] it, steroids helped the game get where it is today. You can argue that Selig is being rewarded for looking the other way.

Pretty good job if you can get it.”

Hardly a heroic epitaph.

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:30:37 +0000

I still can’t figure out how so many in congress was able to pat Selig on the back. He was so busy doing it himself. It was only at the end of the session that he finally and begrudgingly decided that maybe he should accept some of the blame. It was hard to tell, because he was choking down the words.

By: Drive 4-5

Drive 4-5 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:26:34 +0000

Politicians are as addicted to outside money as junkies are to heroin. Even as a retired congressman, Mitchell can’t avoid the temptation to mailine greenbacks into his pocket like a junkie mainlining dope into their veins.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:49 +0000

It’s kind of disgusting that Selig makes more than a lot of the top players in the game. It was amazing when Selig once made note of the salaries in baseball. Selig is a hypocrite in every sense, and baseball needs to get rid of this fool. The NFL showed that you can have a tough leader and still make billions. The idea that Selig — who bumbles CONSTANTLY — has ANYTHING to do with the money being made by baseball is ridiculous.

By: Drive 4-5

Drive 4-5 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:23 +0000

Point well taken, GB7.