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at least MLB isnt hiding all this stuff like previous years

Can't suspend players that had a prescription for HGH before it was banned by baseball. Duh... If he tries that crap, he'll get sued to high heaven and LOSE.

They were encouraging steroid use back in 1998 when steroid users were making the cash registers ring.

Good job, Bud ... close that barn door after the horses have run away!

More McGwire and Ankeil apoligists....

Selig can't suspend them, the union will tear him to shreds. But then he'll get what he wants, the feds will tear up the union.

The Feds can't tear up the union. The Feds can't even get Bonds.

I still think public executions would be a more effective deterrent.

I've taken steroids before. I guess I better watch out because he might try to suspend me too.

he's thumb deep into his cheek. must be juicin'. or a master illusionist.

I can't believe I'm going to say this but Bud Selig is actually a worse commish than Gary Bettman...and that, my friends, is saying something.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

He can do whateve he wants...
Nail them all tough guy.

MLB has been so lame, they need a hard and fast answer to all these eventualities.

Let no such man be trusted.

I must say though,
This is quite the novel approach, so he is thinking about it? Hmmmm.
That is what he is doing in the picture, hmmmm.
Actually he is thinking about the next big thing to increase revenue and how he is going to slip through this steroid era without doing anything real and pass the buck to the next commishioner.

This is dangerously close to actually doing something about the steroid problem.

I know, he better watch it!

Of course the feds can tear up the union. The congressional hearings set those clowns back quite a bit already. There wouldn't be any testing if the union had its way.

Bud is suspending no one. He doesn't have Goodell powers, nor does he have motivation to clean up baseball. This is too little, too late from a PR standpoint.

Punishing players retroactively is not the answer for the future of baseball.
Toughened up regulations from now on, like, automatic banning for probed roid uses. Plus, MLB could use some anti-roid ad campaigns towards kids, featuring active players. Selig can't go out and say "I'm doing my best to catch cheaters but it's very hard and we can't catch them all. But I'll punish one I found, so come enjoy the baseball".

They need to have their own version of "Zero tolerance drug abuse policy" in place.

Bud is bored hearing all the Yankee/ Alex Rodriguez/ Torre headlines so he decided to steal a bit of the pie and make a little noise on the steroid front. He will suspend no one and even if he does he won't have a leg to stand on as the union will appeal and an arbitrator will decide in their favor. Too bad no one can fire Selig and replace him. Torre got the ax and he was a winner. What has Selig done for baseball that he deserves to keep his job?