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Was it unfair for Bud Selig to single out the Giants' Brian Sabean in his testimony before Congress?
Poll submitted by Freddie Footballer, 6 months ago
Bud Selig testified before Congress today that Barry Bonds’ trainer, Greg Anderson, supplied steroids to players on the Giants and that GM Brian Sabean knew of it and did nothing about it. It leaves open the possibility that Sabean will be disciplined. Was it fair for Selig to single out Sabean, considering there were likely other teams turning the other cheek during the steroids era?
this is like the sweater that keeps unravelling, jeez. No end in sight.
- Freddie Footballer
he would have done the same thing if he was GM and he had a star player. Too bad he was owner of the Brewers and none of their players were good enough to be under a steroid cloud. -bB
Sabean is being singled out because he is a specific incident where it has become painfully obvious that he was ignoring what was going on. Whether or not other GM’s would do the same (yeah, we know they would and do) isn’t the point. If other similar situations came up, I’m sure they would be handled similarly. For Bud Selig to claim to be serious about what he’s doing, he MUST pinpoint these incidences so other guys don’t think they can get away with it. Its the same as Mitchell singleing out guys in the MR and tying them to PEDs. Are others doing it? Of course. But when it has become clear that one individual is guilty (once you have gone that route), you can’t ignore it. It wouldn’t be fair either to condemn all these players and then let the “oblivious” front office guys run free of responsibility
would do the exact same thing. Who would have gone to Selig and said that his star player was cheating, especially before steroids became an issue? Sabean would have been looked at as selling out his own team.