(Editor’s Note: Blog may be a bit shorter tonight because my internet is running slow.)
If anyone watched Bud Selig and Donald Fehr on Capitol Hill the other day, the hearing were almost laughable. Not only were the questions being answered by a pair of pea-brained individuals that are blind and deaf, but the members of Congress asking asking the questions were just plain senial! How in God’s name do you mis-pronounce the name of the person you are grilling? Really, Congress? Bud Sell-ig? Unfortunately, that little episode wasn’t the most laughable baseball maneuver of the week…
In case you missed Sportscenter tonight, Bud Selig was unanimously voted a 3-year contract extension that runs through the year 2012 valued at $13 million per year. This is a sad day for baseball, really. Oh yes, all the Selig lovers will run to the stale fact that he’s taken a “corporation” from generating $1 billion, into the $6.5 billion gargantuan state its in today, and that he constructed the game that it is today. Great game we have. Riddled with performance enhancing drugs we can’t test for, and even some that we could, but never did until the usage reached epic proportions. The All-Star Game has turned into the deciding factor for home field advantage in the World Series – which is a complete croc (We even had an All-Star Game finish in a tie back in, I believe, 2001!) We had one strike, and nearly two more, and the game had to be recovered by the 1998 home run race between two supposed steroid users. We have interleague play between two unequal leagues where one can pay a guy just to bat, and the other can’t afford to give up a roster space for a player that only suits up in 9 games a year. We have unequal payrolls because of unbalanced leagues, and teams cant even be sold to the highest bidder because the owners get to vote on them, and they are a corrupt little fraternity. Ticket prices across the board are skyrocketing, and casual fans can barely afford to go to a game.
And not to harp on the Performance Enhancing Drugs, but against the advice of everyone at the MLB offices, Selig goes ahead and has a Senator investigate what went wrong with the sport of baseball. Hell Bud, I coulda saved ya the money and the public humiliation by walking into your office, give you the finger, kick ya in the nuts, and telling you you were too slow and stupid to react to a situation that was public and rampant? Two dangerous cats with the media the way it is today. Now the fans have to sit here, with bits and pieces of information, not knowing who or what to believe, and watch the players we’ve rooted for for years, and question whether or not they played the game fair and clean?
Thank you Bud Selig. Thanks for being the wonderous commissioner you are.
