Knocks on Selig are off-base

Bill Jones — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:08:40 GMT

OH COME ON!!!!!!!!!! Selig should of been fired YEARS ago. He led the way for the players to dictate policy on when to get tested what to get tested for AND in ADVANCVE! This was a key p[oint of the 2002 labor agreement. fast foward four years and IT BLEW UP IN THEIR FACE!!!!!! Then is idiotic idea of an all star TIE game was one of the worst blunders in sports history. The "Luxry Tax" is a total joke even King George knows this. Once a week pitchers are making $5 million and to top that ROIDBALL team owners were bawling that they lost billons in revenue (wonder if A-Rod's $250 package had anythign to do with that?) but when the players said no to a cap they backed off. Four teams SHOULD of been shut down after the 2002 season, The drug policy should of NEVER been approved (try a stipulation like that for a real job) and a cap was the ONLY WAY to control salaries. Roidball is the ONLY sport NOT to have a salary cap. Instead we have players that would even made THIRD WORLD DICTATORS BLUSH WITH SHAME with what they make.

I stopped following baseball after the so called agreement in 2002 and I was CUBS FAN TOO! When I saw Palmeior on a newscast saying he never took then was caught in a "test" I laughed my butt off. Oh and to further prove that the testing is a joke how many players were "suspended" after Palmeiro was tested?

Selig MUST GO NOW before he figguers a way to cause even more havoc.

Oh and since you decided to blast hockey, when was teh last time a ROIDBALL player went to an actual season ticket fans HOME to hand them their season tickets?????????????

Knocks on Selig are off-base

chipper o — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:01:43 GMT

Talk about an opinion that's not worth heeding ... What's the point here exactly? That Selig doesn't deserve to be criticized for ignoring a fundamental integrity-of-the-game issue because the other commissioners have their heads as deeply rooted in the sand? That he should only be measured on the owner's wealth? That you can only see MLB as a business? Selig is, and will be remembered as, the "Steroids Commish," because he ignored the growing scandal. (The player's union did,too, of course, and perhaps some reporters.) Investigative reporting and the government uncovered the problem. Maybe it's an exaggeration to say that baseball "embraced" steroid usage, but it surely embraced the increasing revenue from the HR chases. And maybe, just maybe, the fans whom you so disdain (you realize you wouldn't have a job without them, right?) care less about the business than the game. And when the game is hurt -- as it has been by the steroids scandal -- it's likely the business will be hurt, too.

Knocks on Selig are off-base

Rusty, Gainesville, FL — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:44:29 GMT

Talk show callers views are "truly irrelevant", huh? People passionate enough about the sport to have an opinion don't matter to you at all. Geez, how pompous can you be?

Knocks on Selig are off-base

John Zarubnicky, Connecticut — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:13:14 GMT

The players and the players' union were not going to do anything about steroid use. The owners were not going to do anything about the home run surge that put so many people into the seats. The only entity that had the authority, and the obligation, to investigate the issue and put a strong testing system in place was the commissioner...and in that, he utterly failed.

Bud Selig was an owner, hired by the owners, to regulate the owners and their game. It was a bad choice with bad consequences.

Knocks on Selig are off-base

jj baseball, baseball,fan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:02:08 GMT

Bud makes money for the owners
They love him.
Between the players and drugs and the owners making money.
They look the other way.
Baseball goes from 1billion to 6 billion.
And can not help cities build new parks.
Uses tools like we will move you , if the taxpayer does fill are bill.

Knocks on Selig are off-base

GREGORY MAYNARD PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:36:19 GMT

Why should anyone be perplexed by Bud Selig being referred to as the "Steroids Commissioner"? This distinction, fair or unfair, is open for debate but Bud Selig,himself,has to take responsibility for allowing the perception to even exist.Whether he has a genuine desire to address the problems of steroid use is irrelevant.He has chosen to become a pawn in this three-ring congressional circus that has nothing to do with baseball.
Bud Selig is the commissioner of baseball.As far as I know he is not the director of any law enforcement agency.He is not a member of congress nor should he be a partner in their whimsical public display of concern.His business is baseball.He is not in the business of solving the ills of society.That is their business.Steroids are drugs.Illegal use of drugs is a societal problem.Lets not forget that.Yet some street corner politicians,who masquerade as congressmen,have chosen to bring baseball to the forefront of an ill that affects all of society.Yes steroids(Drugs)are a concern in baseball as are illegal drugs in other segments of business in this society.But,Selig did baseball a disservice by his involvement in a witch hunt that appears to shift the societal problem to the baseball problem.He walked right into a political trap.Baseball does not carry the burden of solving a problem that is not only theirs. Drugs are illegal.That is the responsibility of lawmakers.Demand that they do their job.When they have done their job then Bud Selig can get to the business of doing his job.