Will Bud Selig clean up the game and rid it of performance enhancing drugs or is this all just lip service?

Answer 1

yup

Answer 2

I believe Bud Selig will do NOTHING about this.

One thing to do would be to issue 50 game suspensions to all active players named in the Mitchell report, right out of the gate beginning with Opening Day of the 2008 season.

Mota already got a 50-game suspension, everyone else should serve the same time; and what has Selig done so far....NOTHING!!!!!

Answer 3

Well the fact that no one has had the balls to step up and demand his resignation for being such a lame commissioner will definitely give him some "weaseling room" on the issue. Personally, I think he's going to try and do something to make himself look proactive and the hero type. He knows that the history books are being written about him already and not in his favor.

Selig has had since day one in 1992 when he stepped in as interim commissioner (after he and his henchmen were behind the owners to get rid of Fay Vincent) to address this issue. In 1988, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act set forth criminal penalties for anyone found guilty of trafficking steroids for anything other than a prescription that was written by a doctor for treatment of disease. Congress felt that this act was not stern enough and immediately replaced it with the current Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Shortly after the U.S. Congress raised the penalties for steroid possession and use, Fay Vincent composed a seven page document banning steroids along with other substances. The document lacked any type of testing program, because it had to be approved by the MLBPA, but penalties for infractions and treatment recommendations were lined out in the contents of the memo to the major league owners.

The fact remains that Selig has done nothing to have avoided the issue getting to the point that it did when Mitchell was hired to investigate things. He turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to things, and yet now, every one is screaming for vindication against the players, when they should be screaming for his lame @ss to resign.

Answer 4

Steroids will be in baseball for many years to come. Not every player who is doing steroids was on list if you ask me. The players know how to get around the whole process of of not being caught. I still say that since the issue of steroids in baseball over the many years, that the Mitchell Report came up with only 86 names which most of them I never heard of. I still say there are many more top players who are juiced & not on list. Bud Selig will accomplish nothing as commisioner of baseball.

Answer 5

Selig is no Judge Landis. Otherwise, he would set team penalties for steroid users and doesn't seem interested in blood testing and independent drug testing with public results as well as off season testing (no accident there are latin America players getting so big with their country's drug laws). These simple solutions would end the blatant drug use and curtail most illegal use.

Answer 6

He;s a hypocritical dirtbag. He had his chance years ago, but he and his owner butt buddies didn't want to stop the turnstiles from spinning. Everytime I see Bud Selig I have the urge to shower in scalding hot water.

Answer 7

Selig is a yes man. The owners hand picked him. He doesn't even fart unless they tell him to. It's lip service.

I don't care what anyone says-it takes skill to hit a 96-98 mph fastball. So they hit it 490 feet instead of 450 feet.

Answer 8

Lip service, Bud wouldnt even know where to begin, he had his oppurtunity and he left it up to congress. Whats that say
i'd be surprised if he even knew what a baseball looked like.

Answer 9

It is all lip service! The owners seem to like this guy but he has done absolutely nothing but wreck the game since he has been there!

Answer 10

They will never be gone from the game. Anyone who thinks so is fooling themselves. You can't if you refuse to administer blood tests. Piss tests only detect some things but not all.

Sorry but a clean game will never happen, the MLBPA will never allow that.

Answer 11

they can test all they want but some will always look for a way around it there is too much money at stake for them to perform and be the best..
Human nature will always try to outsmart the boss to get ahead anyway they can...