Bud and Tony need to get stories straight

Poor Bud Selig. He agonized over just what to say about Mark McGwire.

According to the commish of baseball, he spent the entire Packers-Cardinals game Sunday writing and re-writing his self-serving statement about McGwire’s long-overdue admission that he did indeed use steroids for much of his career. Bud said he “painstakingly went over it’’ many times to get the wording just right.

But check out what else Bud did here when he said, “I knew beforehand, but not much. I’ve talked a lot about with (Cardinals’ manager Tony LaRussa and owner) Bill DeWitt. We’ve talked about it since they made (McGwire) their hitting coach.’’

Really, Bud? You talked about it “a lot’’ with Tony La Russa? This would be the same Tony La Russa who claimed Monday night that he didn’t know a thing about McGwire’s steroid use until Monday. Ooops. Somebody doesn’t have the story straight here.

Nobody believed La Russa, of course, and now Bud has outed him in this particular whopper by admitting they talked about the confession scenario. Maybe Tony wasn’t listening.

Comments

[doug]

you hit the nail on the head...I wonder what the statement would be from Bud if Boinds admiited to steroid use...would it be as forgiving???...come on we all know the answer to that one, Bud is the one and only reason i am no longer a fan of baseball, he is exactly as you state self-serving....

[Oliver]

I heard LaRussa say on ESPN the day the story broke that he "had been talking to Mark since the hire about resolving the 'issue' before training camp." Then, with the next breath said, "he had just learned about his use when Mark came forward." He continued by saying that all the gains that he made as a hitter was "due to various off season programs ran by the Cards."

I feel bad for the people around Mark now, because he's come out as an admitted user, he remains unapologetic about lying, and now, people have to prop him up and those people are falling all over there own lies.

How could you have asked your employee to deal with an issue you knew nothing about?

Mark should just have stayed out of baseball.

Hopefully, we can put the home run record back to 61 and forget about the steroid era.

[chris]

It sure would be nice if, in his statement, Bud the Dud would have added "due to the unmitigated damage the use of performance enhancing drugs has done to baseball under my watch, I hereby announce my resignation from the post of commissioner of Major League Baseball, effective immediately, and withdraw my name for any consideration for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown".

But he won't. Because Bud the Dud wouldn't know what shame is if it looked at him in the mirror. Which is the picture you get when you look the word up in the dictionary.