ARod Sues Baseball And Comrade Bud

In an action that could overshadow the Yankees entire docket of offseason moves, Alex Rodriguez sued MLB and Commissioner Bud Selig for essentially interfering with his ability to make money.   While it is literally impossible to get too broken up about ARod's missing checks, it's about time someone with the wherewithal to sue MLB finally has.  I always thought the late George M. Steinbrenner would, especially when baseball instituted the luxury tax directed at the Yankees.

In any event, this should be interesting.  I have believed Bud Selig to be an unctuous, corrupt blot on the face of a game I love.  Remember, he was the owner of the Brewers before he and the other owners fired Fay Vincent and replaced him with Bud.   That was about as transparently wrong as anything you'll see played out in the world of sports, and possibly in life.    Kind of lord of the Flies-ish, too.  Anyway, you cannot put one of the labor combatants in charge of the sanctity of the game, which is just what the owners did back in the 1994 strike.

When Baseball made retired judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis it's first commissioner it was to cleanup baseball after the Black Sox scandal.   The owners didn't choose one of their own then, and it was never even considered until the election of Bud, who by his nurturing, was going to side with owners rather than players against owners at every turn of the road.  So, anyway, he was a terrible choice for the job.   And hopefully the ARod suit will expose just how terrible he was.

I'm not that interested in what happens to and with ARod, but one thing is clear, Selig has gone after him with a fervor he couldn't seem to muster for the Manny's and the Braun's, and that argues against his impartiality which used to be one of the tenets of the job he holds.

So, this should be good.   I also hope it exposes the complicity the owners and execs (and frankly the pathetic baseball press) had in the Steroid era.  It's time that everything was known about that, and so far, this is the best vehicle to start knowing it.   Sorry, Jose.