Admit to steroids – get off clean
MLB Commissioner and total nimrod Bud Selig announced he wouldn’t hand out any punishment to Jason Giambi since the Yankee fully cooperated with Senator George Mitchell’s investigation of steroids in baseball.
So apparently as long as you admit to doing something wrong, you won’t face punishment. Wish that method worked for me back in middle school when I used to change my grades on my report card (sorry again mom).
It’s nice to award a guy for coming clean, but that doesn’t mean he gets a free pass. Maybe this is why the game of baseball continues to be in complete shambles. Seriously Selig, you’ve known there’s been a problem in your league for years, yet continue to do nothing to clean up the situation, including punish a guy for actually admitting he cheated. Hey, I guess if there’s money to be made off guys cheating and hitting long home runs, it’s okay if players juice, right?
Bud the Slug couldn’t run a cub scouts group, nevertheless Major League Baseball.
He has to give Giambi a free pass if he wants any cooperation whatsoever from anyone in the league. He doesn’t want to do it, but in order to find “the truth,” he has to pretend he’s acting in the best interest of baseball, rather than, say, burning a handful of suspected steroid users at the stake after making millions from the sales of those players’ jerseys in the late ’90s.
Yep, I agree with you Gigi – and the whole thing rots…
Jeez, another weak decision from Bud – this guy is like o for 27 in big decisions … Here is a guy who admits to ” taking something ” and he lets him off the hook ? Whats the purpose of the Mitchell report then ? It’s about as good as a Luxury tax instead of a Salary cap – Bud is terrible. Please retire.
Giambi is a Yankee………enough said.
Da Bear Knows what he is talkin about !
What would suspending him accomplish other than being a deterent to any player talking to the Mitchell commission?
None of this matters at all unless they begin using blood tests and the union is already on record as saying they would never allow a player to have a needle stuck in them.
Now that’s ironic, eh??
It would mean Bud the Slug finally made a call buy punishing a guy who … ” Took Something ” according to himself. And, I assume he told the commitee what exactly he did take. Hey – Bud’s a mess. He denied the whole steroid error to line his pockets – this guy lame.
He’s punished many guys for using roids…unfortunately all except one have been bit players in the game that nobody heard of. Amazing how none of the big guys get caught, huh?
B24 is right though…Bud is as big a mess as the game he was hired to protect. He’s needed to go for years now.
Hank Aaron for commissioner???
Hank Aaron or Mike Schmidt would be cool.
Unfortunately, the owners would never allow a former union member and player to be commish. They need someone who cares about the game though, not just the bottom line, both to run the union and as commissioner.
I nominate Yogi … or maybe Don Zimmer – why not ? They would be better than the Slug.