Selig and Schuerholz Elected to HOF

[bcbgcbrcb]

This one is a Milwaukee team issue photo of Selig, looks like late 1980's - early 1990's to me.

[Chris-Counts]

Considering the whole story of how baseball was invented in Cooperstown was a complete fraud, it's only fitting that the Hall of Fame would enshrine the game's biggest fraud ever. Let's see how long they keep the comment sections open on news articles about him getting into Cooperstown. Fans, unlike the writers who vote for the HOF, won't be shy about pointing out that Bud got filthy rich at the expense of the game's reputation. When the game needed a strong voice of leadership and integrity to confront its steroid scandal, his job description required him to step up, but he was nowhere to be found.

[Vintagecatcher]

Chris,

Well said!

Bud Selig is a disgrace to the National Pastime.

Hall of Shame!

Patrick

[Bobsbats]

I find it head scratching that while NO steroids guys have gotten in to the Hall (which I happen to agree with), the powers that be select the guy who oversaw the whole time period in which it took place......and everyone knows he knew what was going on. That seems a little hypocritical to me !!

[Jeffrompa]

<---- shaking head , Bud " light " Selig , HOFer .

[oldjudge]

Every commissioner who served more than a month is in the HOF. It's a joke, but probably considered one of the perks of the job.

[clydepepper]

I am honest enough to say that I, like everyone I talked to back then, thoroughly enjoyed the homerun chase of 1998.

McGwire and Sosa were both easy to like and to cheer for.

It would have been easy enough to see the red flags, but we did not.

If Bud Selig got 'filthy rich' while 'overseeing' the steroid era...so did
EVERYONE else in MLB...even the pitchers serving them up.

The owners (for whom the commissioner works) all kept quiet while they raked in the big bucks, content with what was goin on.

It's very easy to have 20-20 hind-sight and I'm the first to admit that I
was pulled in by those who turned out to be cheaters.

These days, the two things that I hate the most about those times are
that McGwire lied to Mrs. Maris's face and Barry Bonds 'passed' the great
Hank Aaron...and, in doing so, he, along with all the other 'roiders' have
forever changed the way I look at the all-time HR list and even how often
I even check it.

I have greater appreciation for Griffey and Thome because I firmly believe that their totals were achieved without 'help'.

One thing I will not do is say that I did not enjoy all the homeruns at the
time they were being hit.

You guys need to get off your high horse and 'fess up.



hcry