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Bud Selig’s House Must Contain No Mirrors

Feb 12, 2009, 10:10 PM UTC

The irony with the latest Bud Selig story is so rich, you’ll have to brush it aside just to read the rest of this post. Here’s what he had to say about A-Rod’s* PED confession:â†µâ†µâ‡¥Bud Selig says Alex Rodriguez has “shamed the game,” though the baseball commissioner indicated no plans to punish the three-time AL MVP. â†µâ‡¥â†µâ‡¥“I am saddened by the revelations,” Selig said in a statement issued Thursday, four days after Rodriguez admitted he used unspecified drugs from 2001-03 while playing for the Texas Rangers. “What Alex did was wrong, and he will have to live with the damage he has done to his name and reputation.” â†µâ‡¥

â†µâ†µLet’s see here, steroids were essentially allowed to run wild in clubhouses across baseball in the late 90’s and earlier this decade while Bud Selig, you know, the guy in charge of the game, turned the other cheek. Everyone knew players were using them. But no one -- including Selig; especially Selig -- did anything because the game was struggling and the ‘roids helped bring it back. Yet now, six years later, Selig is the one who says he’s ashamed of a player taking PEDs during that era? Amazing. â†µâ†µAnd sure, what Rodriguez did was wrong. But so was what Bud Selig has done. And he’ll not only have to live with the damage he’s done to his name and reputation, but also to the entire sport of baseball. This happened under Selig’s watch, so if the players are going down with the ship, he certainly should as well. â†µ

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â†µ*New rule: Usage of the term “A-Roid” when referring to Alex Rodriguez on blogs is henceforth banned. Unless you wish for your writing to be on par with the New York Post’s headlines, in which case go for it, you uncreative, witless no-talent. Not that the term “A-Roid” bothers us our anything. â†µâ†µ

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