I dont want to comment on steroids in baseball except to say this, Bud Selig is a moron.
Selig came out and said A-Rod "shamed the game."
Really? And whose fault is that Bud?
You sat idly by for the Sosa/McGwire home run chase, the Bonds' years and for Roger Clemens and now you want to call out someone else.
This is about money and Bud has got plenty of it.
Federal tax records said Selig made $18 million in 2007.
He got fat and happy off of the Steroids Era and let it all unfold in the name of resurrecting the game following the strike-shortened '94 season.
Labor disputes are bad for any business, but cheating the game is worse.
Selig is the worst cheater of all.
Of all the guys that took something he never made a push to stop any of them until the clamoring to clean up the game was so bad he had no other choice but to protect his personal cash cow.
It sucks that guys like Bonds and A-Rod, first ballot HOF's already, took these things and made more money but so did Bud.
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Torii Hunter was on Mason and Ireland the other day talking about the whole situation and I was shocked at a) his complete lack of perspective on the subject and b) Mason and Ireland's ability to let him skate and then even defend his comments when he got off the air.
First he said it was good that A-Rod wasn't "lying about what he did" and was speaking out about it and "nipping it in the bud."
Really? Ask Katie Couric about his lies.
Nipping it in the bud? Four Sports Illustrated sources called him out on it. He "came clean" six years later. That sounds real honest and straightforward to me.
Then he said that "we all had skeletons in our closets" and something to the affect that he should be left alone.
We all may have skeletons, but all of us except for A-Roid, aren't making $30 mil a year to play baseball for the Yankees.
To say we are all the same is absurd.
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While I'm on the subject of people not thinking too clearly enter stage right Mr. Elgin Baylor! 22 seasons of awful Clipper basketball and now he is going to sue Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
I have never met either character in question but how bad was Sterling that Baylor stayed on two-plus decades. It wasn't like Baylor was tied up in the basement unless of course we are talking about the cellar of the Pacific Division.
Baylor wants to sue Sterling alleging racial and age discrimination. Sterling should turn around and sue Baylor for all of the losses and incompetence. Might as well throw Mike Dunleavy in there too.
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Time for a new segment I'm aptly calling the stat of the week. I know, I really went out on a limb here but I think you'll like it.
Stat of the Week
Entering Saturday's slate of games: (Riverside at Northridge, Cal Poly at UCSB, Fullerton and Davis and Irvine at Pacific) Big West teams are 29-19-1 on the road ATS (26-23 SU).
(Update - 10:31 P.M. Poly, Fullerton and Irvine cover with Fullerton winning and Riverside losing on both accounts. This brings the totals to a whopping 32-20-1 ATS and 27-26 straight up).
