Time for baseball commissioner to step down



Saeed Rezai


It is time for Bud Selig to step down as Major League Baseball commissioner. He is a useless, lying embarrassment to the game of baseball. It is time for Selig to use those broad powers he has as commissioner to cut himself permanently from the game. Seling is inviting skepticism and mistrust and making baseball a laughing stock. And worst of all, he is undermining the fans intelligence.

It is no secret steroids have not only hurt the image of America’s favorite pastime, but have also raised serious questions about the legitimacy of the records being shattered left and right. Selig knew about the widespread use of steroids, but didn’t do a damn thing about it and why should he?

The McGwire and Sosa home run chase in 1998 put baseball back on the map, after a period in which baseball was coming off a strike and the fan base was at its lowest. Both players would have come close to

Roger Maris’s record of 61 if it wasn’t for steroids. Selig not only helped perpetuate the problem but encouraged it because it was making MLB a whole lot of money.

For many years fans and the media voiced concerns over MLB steroids policies of and each time Selig ignored the signs.

You don’t have to be genius to figure out there is a growing problem in baseball. Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs record, set in 1927, stood for nearly four decades before Roger Maris broke it in 1961. Maris’s record stood for 40 years before McGwire shattered it with 70 in 1998, the same year Sammy Sosa hit 66 home runs. The 60-home run mark, which was only reached twice in a century, was accomplished four more times, including Barry Bonds’ single season home run record of 73 set in 2001.

It is hard to take Selig’s words seriously when he and the owners conveniently turn their heads for years while exploiting home runs for profit. If he wanted to clean up baseball he should have said something years earlier instead of ignoring the issue and letting baseball become a performance enhancing laboratory where balls are hit so far out of ballparks fans wonder if the player is juiced or not.

For Selig time, has run out and he needs to pack his bags and take a hike because baseball needs a new commissioner who is willing to get his hands dirty and to get the game back where it should be.

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