Bud Selig claims that ‘everything is fair game’ in the Mitchell steroids investigation
Selig defended himself and Major League Baseball in the face of questions Monday about baseball’s knowledge of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids during the late 1990s. Selig said it was the report of Mark McGwire’s use of the legal supplement andro that first got him asking around about usage of all performance enhancers. Selig contended that steroid use was not as well-known as “revisionist” history is making out to be. He’s looked into it.And now he has someone doing a more thorough job.
Independent investigator George Mitchell, a former U.S. senator, “can go wherever the evidence takes him,” Selig said while attending Monday’s game at Busch Stadium. “What I’ve told him is that’s a judgment he has to make. He has to go wherever the evidence takes him - both in terms of time and people.”
Selig’s building a house of crap of a foundation of lies. Selig didn’t know about steroid and supplement use until it came out in 1998 that Mark McGwire was using andro? Then why did both the June 7, 1991 and May 15, 1997 memoranda from the Office of the Commissioner to all major league clubs state that baseball’s ban on illegal drug use by players “applies to all illegal drugs and controlled substances, including steroids and prescription drugs for which the individual in possession of the drug does not have a prescription”?
This just smells of cover-up. Selig still refuses to take responsibility for his role in the Steroids Era, and he’s appointed a Friend of Baseball to “investigate” steroid use by players.
