Put a clown like
ex-MLB commissioner Bud Selig into the Hall of Fame, and bad things will
happen, as they did yesterday with the announcement of voting results for Cooperstown. New inductees Jeff Bagwell and Ivan Rodriguez
(especially) have been dogged by rumors of steroids’ use. Maybe they did steroids, maybe not. But the really scary part is that guilty-until-proven
innocent candidates Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens both saw their vote totals
rise. Bonds went from getting 44.3 percent
of the vote last year to 53.8 percent this year while Clemens’ total climbed
from 45.2 percent to 54.1 percent.
Sportswriters do
the voting, so everything has to be taken with a grain of salt. This time next year, most of them may not even
remember who they voted for, so I wouldn’t go so far as to say there’s been a
shift in thinking. But if those numbers
keep going up, then obviously something’s changed, and I can’t argue with the
logic. Selig, who let White Sox owner Jerry
Reinsdorf talk him into locking the players out in 1994, then compounded his
incompetence by turning a blind eye to steroids’ use, by the way as did all those
sportswriters who saw the physiques of Sammy Sosa and company change before
their very eyes.
For me, Selig
deserves enshrinement in a hall of clowns.
This is what happens when things go in the opposite direction.
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