Bud Selig has Shamed the Game

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Bud Selig, yesterday, said, "What Alex did was wrong and he will have to live with the damage he has done to his name and reputation." This from an AP article.

If you have not heard, A-Rod confessed to using "performance drugs" while he was a member of the Texas Rangers. (The Democrats will probably try to blame this on George W. Bush since he once owned the Rangers, although that was before A-Rod's stint in Texas.)

The real shame on the great game of baseball is Selig. Let's review his tenure, now almost 15 years in the making:

• His reinstatement of George Steinbrenner in 1993;
  
• Canceled World Series in 1994 (Probably the Montreal Expos only shot to win one);
• Marge Schott and her racist rhetoric followed by a ban then reinstatement;
• The tie-game at the 2002 All-Star game;
• To solve the tie-game problem, now the All-Star game "means something";
• The wild card (ugh! a wild card belongs in a poker game or the NFL);
• Major games (All-Star game and World Series) that start way too late on the east coast;
• Moving most of the playoffs to cable television;
• The NFL racing past the MLB as America's pasttime;
  
• and the biggest mess of the Selig tenure: STEROIDS!

Ol' Bud covered his eyes and plugged his ears as players (A-Rod was far from the only one) who juiced up. Home runs went up, along with attendance and revenue. Bud has been asleep at the wheel for a decade and a half now.

It's time, Bud. Get out. Just leave! Bud Selig's tenure as commissioner should have a giant asterisk (*) next to it. If A-Rod is suspended, so should everyone else. Selig should be suspended for dereliction of duty and ruining the grand game of baseball.