But baseball looked the other way. I don’t think they created this mess, but they could have done more to stop it, and instead they were too busy counting their money IMO.

I’m betting that baseball’s ahead-of-the-curve thinking on internet presence has made tons more revenue for baseball than anything that can be even remotely linked to steroids.

That was Reinsdorf’s initiative, not Selig’s.

does he really want to remind everyone that he was the idiot that signed that contract while bidding against himself?

Yes, I’m still talking about Hicks and A-Rod, dammit, not Dayton Moore!

While that record book is open for changes, I’d like to put the 1977 ALCS up for review. If Bonds can be denied the record despite what happened on the field, then let’s get to work, because it’ll be open season on the past.

What else needs a rework?

Selig made $18M

It’s pretty sleazy that Selig and ownership are pretending to be the guardians of the game while denying responsibility for what happened.

But, even sleazier, they’re double-dipping on benefits from PEDs use.

1) The offensive explosion of the ‘90s, which supposedly was fueled by PEDs, drew in paying customers, TV viewership, etc., increasing their revenues, increasing the value of future TV contracts (such as the current one), and so on. Bud claims he didn’t know personally that there was a problem with PEDs until 1996, while the ownership as a group, for whom Bud works, proudly points to the anti-steroids policy that was in place in the form of Vincent’s memo of 1991.

2) They’re quite shamelessly using the public’s reaction to PEDs disclosures as leverage in their ongoing war with labor. Of course Bud isn’t going to discipline A-Rod; he clearly has no authority to do so. But that won’t stop him from giving an interview to USA Today that allows him to cast himself in the role of protector of all that’s good and holy from the depredations of the dirty rotten players.

So, is that enough faux outrage? Probably not; too genuine.