Or lack of them over the use of performance enhancing drugs in the MLB. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bob Selig is still making excuses for the steroid issue go out of hand. It has also dismayed those in the baseball community that it is the players who bring in the trophies that take the blame for his incompetence. Selig kept on insisting that he did what he could to clean up drugs from the sport. His critics are not convinced. They say he hasn’t done enough. Perhaps what they are clamoring for is the kind of honesty that A-Rod displayed when there had been a breach in the confidentiality of the drug test results that showed he was positive for steroids. Selig even used legal precedence as an excuse why he kept mum until the scandal.
From The Sun Times:
“The American labor laws are very clear. They’re very lucid. They’re very concise,” Selig said. “The fact is, it’s a subject of collective bargaining. So if I were to make some dramatic announcement that I’m going to do it anyway — you can‚t do that.”
Why not? Wouldn’t there be a position of strength created simply from a bully-pulpit standpoint — as opposed to weakening the office?
“No, and I’ll tell you why,” Selig said. “It’s clear that drug testing is a subject for collective bargaining, and, therefore, if you do it, and an arbitrator — boom — throws you out fast because there’s no doubt it’s a subject of collective bargaining, then you really haven’t accomplished anything.
Selig said the players union had always been against drug testing which is why he had no knowledge of who had been using steroids in the MLB. He claims that there was no evidence that they had been on drugs.
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