Bud Selig

The whole “make the All-Star Game meaningful” movement started in 2002, when Bud Selig had to call a tied, extra-inning game when the bullpens were too depleted to continue. In an effort to give each pitcher his one or two innings of work, nobody had anticipated the consequences.

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In 2003, a year after Bud Selig infamously called the All-Star game a tie after eleven innings were played and both bullpens were depleted, MLB changed the rules to inject artificial meaning into the game: World Series home-field advantage would henceforth go to the winning league in the All-Star Game.

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Is Bud Selig still alive?  Where is he and is he even watching what is going on in his own sport?  It seems like ever since he gave himself his own contract extension, he has been hiding.  I do not understand what he is doing.  Players that were named in the Mitchell Report have told us they did   take the substances that were mentioned in the Report.  Andy Pettite has even held a press conference to admit to using HGH and apologized for what he has done.  But is that enough?  According to Bud it is.  No he hasn't come out in public and verbally told us this.  You could tell by his actions.  He is too afraid to punish these players because it was during the era he was the commisioner of baseball.  It would look bad on his part if this activity was going on under his nose and he recogizes it by punishing some of the stars of our game.  He will not do this.  He is going to look pass all of this because it was the Steriods Era and it is now a time to move on.  He doesn't care.  To his credit, he helped gain the popularity of the sport back by intorducing our modern day Incredible Hulks in the season of 1998 when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire slugged it out for the famous Roger Maris record which is now tainted.  Selig has made millions during this era.  Actually, billions.  He thanks the players for this.  They helped make him look better as they injected each other while supplying a fake realm of baseball to its fans

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ebuts this season and nobody seems to care.

Though well-intentioned, the Mitchell Report has been Bud Selig’s biggest mistake since the debacle of ending the All-Star Game in extra innings with the score still tied. After Jose Canseco’s book and the embarrassing first Congressional hearing when Mark McGwire didn’t want to talk about the past, Rafael Palmeiro wagged his finger and Sammy Sosa suddenly forgot how to speak English, Selig could have just admitted that baseball had a steroid problem that needed to be addressed sooner but from here we are going to move forward with a strict testing policy and harsh punishments. Fans would have eventually forgotten, and even though Bumbling Bud fumbled his chance, we almost did forget with the exception of Barry Bonds. If Bonds was a likeable person, we probably would have gotten past him as well.

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