that would be really stupid.

 Right now he is getting off Scott free (this coming from a guy with some Boarders clan heritage) on the whole steroid issue. After all the owners had very little from stopping them on instituting a standard for minor leaguers long before they actually did (Tom House is on record as saying players were trying ‘riods in the 70’s after all.) Also the owners certainly did not have a gun to their heads to give MLB jobs to guys that might have been using . The owners chose to do that all on their own and the league office failed to even raise a peep about it (So much for "Best interests of the game " clause.) The best thing for his own self interests (and when is Selig not all about is own self interests?) is to walk real small right now and let people forget his role in both the committing of the offenses and the witch hunt after words.

don’t know if any of you ever read this…

Was Hank on steroids?

*according to the record books, baseball did not exist from 1990-2005

Educated fans reinstate Selig as numero uno a$$hole and the devil incarnate.

Excuse my language. He can’t just wipe out a record. Even the commissioner after Maris his his 61 homers couldn’t ‘erase’ the record, he decided to give it an asterisk instead. Which was also bullsh*t.

Yes, let’s pretend that history didn’t happen because some people find it embarrassing!

Why not make the Giants 1989 World Champions because of Canseco & McGwire? Seems to me to be the same idiocy.

If recent era hitting records are considered tainted due to “cheating”, then we need to wipe out the pitching records achieved before 1920 and the outlawing of the spitball and the more frequent replacement of baseballs (which of course were “dead balls” to begin with) during a game. Cy Young’s 511 wins? A product of dirty baseballs in the twilight and being able to do whatever the hell he wanted to the (dead) ball that would be kept in play until lost; likewise Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Walter Johnson, and anyone else who was able to throw a doctored, dirty, dead baseball.

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/02/12/selig-might-strip-bonds-of-hr-record/

"…you can’t compare eras anyway, so if you just take one record away, it’s a hyperbolic exercise in revisionist history. Otherwise, shouldn’t you go back and examine every caveat in every era? What about when Babe Ruth played? He played in a league that wasn’t integrated and expected starting pitchers to complete every start. No situational left-handers for Ruth in the late innings. Just a tired — from pumping out 150 pitches during the day — white guy in the ninth stood in his way. Also, the strike zone was reduced and the pitcher’s mound was lowered in 1969, and Aaron followed with five seasons of at least 34 home runs. Plus, they played more games per season when Aaron played.

Where are the asterisks for all that? You don’t see them, because it would be stupid. Baseball fans need to be smart enough to put numbers in their proper context on their own. Every generation is different. If Bonds was juiced, so were a lot of pitchers he faced and hitters he out-homered …"

that as the article points out, Bud claims that as a personal friend of Aaron’s “This is breaking my heart”. I’m guessing Hank would like to ask him, “Then why did you allow all of this to happen, my dear friend?” What a douche-bag. He’s got to be one of the most arrogant men on the planet not to be aware of the fact that people are, in the end, going to point the finger at him because of his own involvement — or lack thereof. The sad thing is the media won’t point that finger at him right away. They would rather stick to the lynch Bonds train they’ve been riding for so long.

Eat a bag of dicks, Bud.

…or else the record book needs to be rewritten to reflect that the office of the commisioner has been vacant since 1992.

Holocaust denial
Duesberg hypothesis
Bug Selig

how do you compare the records of 1920s, 30s, and early 40s when only whites were allowed to play to the numbers of today when baseball is truly a global game?

how do you compare today’s numbers when players careers are lengthened because of advances in medical science (Joe Nathan’s 200 saves should have an asterisk because he had the benefit of a new surgical procedure, right)?

how do you view the careers of guys who lost some of their prime years because they had to help save the world fighting in World War II?

what about the advances in youth baseball and college baseball that prepare kids so well for MLB careers, kids even 30 or 40 years ago didn’t have access to this?

The answer is, of course, that you can’t do any of this by looking at simple statistics, and nobody with half a brain would even try. Baseball changes and evolves with society and that makes it impossible to compare players from vastly different eras. The only thing you can do with any accuracy is compare players to their peers.

And the last thing the owners want is someone not entirely in accord with their agenda as commissioner.

So when Selig gets too old to fill the job they’ll find somebody else with an equal aptitude.

George W. Bush wanted the job as baseball commish. He would of be MUCH better then Selig.