Bud Selig

If Bud Selig had the testicular fortitude to draw a line in the sand, he would have done so by now. Pete Rose is banished from the game for betting on his team to win games. And yet we slap blatant, omnipresent cheaters with 50 game suspensions? Manny Ramirez returns to Mannywood and is marketed just as feverishly as before his suspension? There is no consistency in Major League Baseball.

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ssibility. 

On a side note, I believe the 2002 All Star game upset a lot of fans, causing Bud Selig and the rest of Major League Baseball to come up with something that would make the fans actually watch the All Star game in the future.  Then came the god awful rule that the All Star Game actually had to count.  Forgive me for saying this, but it makes me so mad that managers are now playing the All Star game to win instead of letting all the bench players get a chance to go on the field or approach the box as an all star.  Sorry Bud, but this rule needs to go.  True baseball fans will continue watching, even if they are disappointed about a tie game. 

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Since we can't catch them all, we might as well stop trying. If Bud Selig and George Mitchell continue this "we can do it" nonsense, there will be no star players left in the game, period.

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e you, but they aren't IN LOVE with you.

3) It's a little too early to stop hating on Bonds.

2) Bud Selig, I mean, "Mike Rithgen," would rather you send them to his house, instead.

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The whole “make the All-Star Game meaningful” movement started in 2002, when Bud Selig had to call a tied, extra-inning game when the bullpens were too depleted to continue. In an effort to give each pitcher his one or two innings of work, nobody had anticipated the consequences.

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In 2003, a year after Bud Selig infamously called the All-Star game a tie after eleven innings were played and both bullpens were depleted, MLB changed the rules to inject artificial meaning into the game: World Series home-field advantage would henceforth go to the winning league in the All-Star Game.

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All right then, it’s almost July, which means it’s almost time for yet another midsummer classic, which once again will pit the National League against their arch-rivals, those bums from the junior circuit.

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p shop in the parking lots to tailgate.  But evidently that doesn't matter.  Commissioner Bud Selig decided it was time to speed things up.  So, he made conference calls to all club managers on Wednesday letting them know that starting as soon as possible, some rules were going to start being enforced.  Those rules are:1)  Umpires will ask batters to approach home plate from the on-deck circle and enter the       batter's box faster.  And if the batter doesn't, he'll get an automatic strike.

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Really does take most of the fun out of watching.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig joins the announcers in the booth in the midde of the fourth. He mouths the expected platitudes about how much fun it is to play in Japan, etc. "We were a little slow internationally. . the World Baseball Classic was terrific, etc., etc." Selig talks about how he'll tell people at a conference about the sport, say what a success it is and blah, blah, blah. . ." They talk about steroids ("we've got work to do but we've made progress"; later, "enormous progress" "We've done everything we've said we're going to do and we're going to do more.") and blah, blah, blah. . . OK, enough of him. Back to the game; still 2-0, going into the 5th.

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Is Bud Selig still alive?  Where is he and is he even watching what is going on in his own sport?  It seems like ever since he gave himself his own contract extension, he has been hiding.  I do not understand what he is doing.  Players that were named in the Mitchell Report have told us they did   take the substances that were mentioned in the Report.  Andy Pettite has even held a press conference to admit to using HGH and apologized for what he has done.  But is that enough?  According to Bud it is.  No he hasn't come out in public and verbally told us this.  You could tell by his actions.  He is too afraid to punish these players because it was during the era he was the commisioner of baseball.  It would look bad on his part if this activity was going on under his nose and he recogizes it by punishing some of the stars of our game.  He will not do this.  He is going to look pass all of this because it was the Steriods Era and it is now a time to move on.  He doesn't care.  To his credit, he helped gain the popularity of the sport back by intorducing our modern day Incredible Hulks in the season of 1998 when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire slugged it out for the famous Roger Maris record which is now tainted.  Selig has made millions during this era.  Actually, billions.  He thanks the players for this.  They helped make him look better as they injected each other while supplying a fake realm of baseball to its fans

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ebuts this season and nobody seems to care.

Though well-intentioned, the Mitchell Report has been Bud Selig’s biggest mistake since the debacle of ending the All-Star Game in extra innings with the score still tied. After Jose Canseco’s book and the embarrassing first Congressional hearing when Mark McGwire didn’t want to talk about the past, Rafael Palmeiro wagged his finger and Sammy Sosa suddenly forgot how to speak English, Selig could have just admitted that baseball had a steroid problem that needed to be addressed sooner but from here we are going to move forward with a strict testing policy and harsh punishments. Fans would have eventually forgotten, and even though Bumbling Bud fumbled his chance, we almost did forget with the exception of Barry Bonds. If Bonds was a likeable person, we probably would have gotten past him as well.

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There's not really much room for debate about the top story in Major League Baseball today. Senator Mitchell has released his much ballyhooed report on the scale and effect of steroids in baseball, and perhaps the biggest surprise is how very mundane it seems. True to his word, the Senator has indeed named names (Barry Bonds used steroids!? You're kidding!), but for anyone who's even passively been following the Fall of the House of Bonds over the last two years, the 'revelation' that both the MLB and the Player's Association are to blame for nurturing the steroid culture could hardly be called a shock. Look, guys, we get it: the mid-90's were tough on the game, and so when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire all of a sudden started hitting baseballs into North Korean airspace, nobody wanted to point out just how improbable the whole situation was. Sadly, that collective ignorance looks worse and worse as the climate continues to change, and the backpedalling and fingerpointing from all responsible grows more and more absurd. In the report, Senator Mitchell recommends that in lieu of punishment, the league should adopt recommendations to prevent performance-enhancing drug abuse from continuing into the future, and move on. This, of course, would be an actual solution, and will therefore not happen. Instead, we'll have saber-rattling and punishments handed down from those who should be owning their own responsibility in the whole matter.

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