I'll just leave this here, because Sheehan says it better than I ever could
And by "this" I mean this.
Even if you are a sports-drugs absolutist, even if you believe that Alex Rodriguez did everything MLB seems to be claiming he did, and that he gets graded on a different curve for the same actions (like buying evidence), and that he can be nailed for one, two, even three violations at the same time, it is not possible to believe that Rodriguez did more to harm the game of baseball than the man who repeatedly violated federal law on his way to orchestrating the cancellation of a World Series.
The single most destructive act towards baseball in my lifetime isn't a player cheating, isn't Pete Rose betting, isn't a team snorting coke and it isn't baseball teams colluding. It's 1994, and 1994 happened because Bud Selig called a play that a Supreme Court Justice saw right through. Alex Rodriguez could kidnap the NL Central, the Texas League and the Southeastern Conference, shoot them up with heroin and drop them off a barge and not violate XII.B to the extent that Selig has. $1.2 billion, multiple violations of labor law and a cancelled World Series; materially detrimental to the best interests of baseball in violation of federal law, indeed.
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Love the "something that doesn't suck" tag.
And yes I've read the whole story about how Selig became commissioner on Wikipedia or something and he basically just led a coup against Fay Vincent and then became the de facto commissioner. Pretty crazy story that doesn't get much play. Wonder why...
There are three (AND ONLY THREE!!!) reasons Selig's status as a giant piece of shit isn't a bigger story: 1) David Stern is a bigger piece of shit 2) Gary Bettman is an even bigger piece of shit than Stern and finally 3) Roger "Protect the Shield" Goodell is the biggest piece of shit in the world of pro sports.
"It is not possible to believe that Rodriguez did more to harm the game of baseball than the man who repeatedly violated federal law on his way to orchestrating the cancellation of a World Series."
Nice job tearing down a straw man, then running over him with a truck. Is anyone actually claiming Rodriguez did more harm to baseball than Selig?
Anonymous: You must not be reading much of what is being written (both by writers and commenters) about A-Rod. Take 1,000 randomly sampled baseball fans from across the country. Ask them which of those two guys has done more harm to baseball in their lives. I will put a good amount of money on you getting way, way more responses for Rodriguez than Selig. Source: all the bullshit I've been reading about Biogenesis and the players involved, from both MSM outlets and blogs, for the past several months.
To be fair to your comment, too, I acknowledge that the question at hand isn't really "is A-Rod's steroid use for the past X years worse for baseball than what Selig did in the 80s and 90s," so in that sense, it is a bit of a straw man. It's too late to undo 1994. But it's also kind of too late to undo A-Rod's career, and the mouth-breathing retards clamoring for JUSTICE AGAINST CHEATERZZZ could probably use a reminder that the guy who's pulling out all the stops to nail Rodriguez, including by jumping right over the top of the JDA and going to the CBA to find the sword he wants to use for a JDA-contemplated problem, is the same guy who has himself done tons of harm to the game in years past.
There are eight people listed as writers yet only one posts write ups and one ever comments. Did the other six pass away? How hard would it be write a line or two? One would think the new anonymous troll would awaken a zombie or two?
Enjoy the free content, sir.
I hear Larry assassinated them to attain greater Fire Jay Mariotti market share.
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