Really Bud Selig?!!? Really?!?!

If you haven't seen Really?!? with Seth and Amy on SNL I suggest you click here or here before reading the rest of this post.

Last week A-rod was outed from his "anonymous" steroid test in 2003. Since then he has admitted to using PED from 2001-2003 while with the Rangers. No doubt A-rod is an idiot who cheated the game. His interviews and press conferences have been awkward and uncomfortable. His story is always changing. Basically, A-rod is doing his best Barry Bonds/Roger Clemens impersonation. And, I might add, he is doing a fantastic job. I think the public is handling A-rod well. He is being ridiculed. He is being made fun of. He probably has cost himself a chance to be enshrined into Cooperstown. So, for today, I will leave A-rod alone. However, there is one villain in this story who has been getting off without the penalty he deserves, and that is commissioner Bud Selig. Outside of being compared to Vince McMahon, Selig really hasn't come close to receiving the punishment he deserves.

Which brings me to a completely copied segment that I will call: Really?1? with No Run Support (cue cheesy theme music)

Really Bud Selig?!? Really?!? You said you wouldn't change anything you did about steroid if you had to do it all over again? You felt that you did everything you could Really?!? Let's take a look at your best hitter from this era: Barry Bonds. And the best pitcher: Roger Clemens. The best story: The 1998 Homerun chase with McGwire and Sosa. It seems like the best things that happened in the past decade have all been up to their ears in steroid controversy. Really.

Really Bud Selig?!? Really?!? A-rod has shamed the game? Reallly?!? From 2001-2003 steroids were not illegal in Major League Baseball. Really. You were the commissioner during this time and couldn't get steroids, a substance that is illegal in the United States of America, made illegal in your sport. That is like MLB not having a rule against murder or tax evasion! What the hell? How can you not have a rule against steroids? And really?!? Bud Selig, A-rod shamed the game?!? Really?!? There were 104 people on that anonymous list of positive steroid users in 2003. Really. 104 people. Really. There are 750 roster spots in Major League Baseball. At least 14% of all players in your league tested positive. Perhaps the problems runs a bit deeper than A-rod, Bonds, Giambi, Clemens, Petite, and Tejada. Perhaps, the head of the league should take some responsibility for 14% of his workforce using an illegal and performance enhancing substance. Imagine what would happen is 14% of Windows employees tested positive for Meth? Do you think Bill Gates would be patting himself on the back? Belly-aching about people blaming him for things out of his control? Really.

And finally, Bud Selig this was your response to people questioning your leadership during the steroid era, "I don't want to hear the commissioner turned a blind eye to this or he didn't care about it." Really?!? Really Bud Selig?!? You know, I didn't want to hear that there is going to be a players strike in 1994, or that the All-Star game was going to end in a tie, or that the commissioner refuses to attend games when the all-time home run record is about to be broken only because he is good friends with the previous holder of the record and there is assumed steroid guilt of the guy breaking the record. But I had to deal with all of that Bud, while you skirted your responsibilities. Really.