At 73, Bud Selig hardly qualifies as a poster child for anything. But if he could, he would join Barry Bonds and all the others as poster children for Major League Baseball’s steroids era.
No, Selig didn’t inject steroids. But he sat by and watched as so many ballplayers did. In the process, he, along Players Association head Donald Fehr, tacitly endorsed what those players were doing to themselves and the game.
And what price will Selig pay? The question is more like, What price will he be paid?
Selig received a three-year contract extension from the owners the other day, leaving us with only one logical conclusion: Those who run the game aren’t particularly bothered by the drug scandal that has permanently scarred it.
Maybe, in the end, that’s the biggest shame of all.
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