Flash back to 1998: A smiling, beaming MLB Commissioner (or whatever he was at the time–head whore for the owners?) Bud Selig is ecstatic as steroid-ridden monsters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa (who evidently did it all to get laid) were chasing the single-season home run record. McGwire ends up with 70, Sosa 66–both "tainted" records.
Selig took all the credit for bringing baseball back from the abyss of the 1994 strike season when he canceled the World Series.
Flash forward to August 7, 2007: Steroid- and HGH-ridden monster Barry Bonds breaks the all-time home run record of Selig clone Henry Aaron, and Selig is hiding, issuing a statement about "innocent until proven guilty."
Now, come on. The only thing that changed, Commish, is that the world is on to you and baseball. The past 10 to 20 years have been nothing but ‘roids, ‘roids and ‘roids. You smiled when no one pinned that label on the players and the game, but now that your dirty little secret is out of the closet, you want to make Barry Bonds die for your sins–yes, yours, not his. You condoned it so long as it looked good. But it’s "tainted" when you might have to take the fall.
Get a life, Commish, as in get a new job.
Bring on the next Kennesaw Mountain Landis. You were never more than a greedy owner, Bud, and your recent actions have confirmed that.
Blaming Barry Bonds will never exonerate you of the Silence of the Sham that you created in 1998.
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