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RACISM & SPORTS 3: Bud Selig Gives Barry Bonds An "Out"! - That Gaping ESCAPE HATCH Given To Jason Giambi Was Made For Bonds. Finally, A Major Team Sport Protects A Black Superstar! Repub 3/5
RACISM & SPORTS
3:
Bud Selig Gives
Barry Bonds An
“Out”! -
That Gaping
ESCAPE HATCH
Given To Jason
Giambi Was Made
For Bonds. Finally,
A Major Team Sport
Protects A Black
Superstar! Repub 3/5
Originally published August 17, 2007
Roger Clemens Up Next!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Selig says not disciplining Giambi was
'appropriate decision'
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- With a bright-eyed smile stretched across his rosy face, Jason Giambi bounced around the field during batting practice and posed for photos with fans.
The New York Yankees slugger had plenty to be happy about Thursday.
Giambi escaped punishment from commissioner Bud Selig because of his charitable work and cooperation with baseball's steroids investigator.
"It's over and done with. I'm thrilled with it. He did what he needed to do -- now I can go forward", Giambi said before the Yankees hosted Detroit in the opener of an important four-game series. "I can go forward and not hurt the ballclub with a suspension".
Selig, speaking on the second and final day of an owners meeting in Toronto, called this an "appropriate decision."
Giambi has acknowledged a "personal history regarding steroids". He agreed to speak with former Sen. George Mitchell last month after Selig threatened to discipline him if he refused to cooperate.
"He's doing a lot of public-service work, and I think that's terribly important", Selig said. "I think it's more important for us to keep getting the message out. He was, I thought, very frank and candid with Sen. Mitchell, at least that was the senator's conclusion. Given everything, this is an appropriate decision".
Jason Giambi's public-service work made a favorable impression upon Bud Selig, who chose not to punish the Yankee slugger.
Giambi said he already was involved with most of the charity work in question "before any of this". Tabacco: What top-flight ballplayer doesn’t!
"I felt they were good programs. They were great for kids", he said.
Selig said June 21, before Giambi met Mitchell, that he would take "Giambi's level of cooperation into account in determining appropriate further action".
Selig said Mitchell was not expected to speak with any other active players.
"This was a special circumstance", Selig said. "I have no other plans". Tabacco: Oh, NO!
No date has been announced for the release of Mitchell's report.
Giambi met Mitchell in New York on July 13, becoming the first active player known to talk with baseball's steroids investigator.
"Sen. Mitchell was great. We got along great. He knew I was in a tough situation and at the same time it was great the way he went about it", Giambi said. "I'm just one piece of a huge puzzle".
Giambi, the 2000 AL MVP with Oakland, missed more than two months this season because of torn tissue in his left foot. He began the day batting .270 with nine home runs and 26 RBIs in 51 games.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman didn't have much reaction to Selig's decision, saying the commissioner's discretion about the health of the sport was more important than the club's self-interest.
But manager Joe Torre was pleased with the news.
"The fact that it's over and done with, it's a little less he has to deal with. It's closure. It's something he treated with a great deal of respect", Torre said. "The fact that he can just concentrate on baseball is good for all of us".
Giambi started at first base Thursday night for the first time since returning from the foot injury.
"Oh my God, it's a miracle!" he said. "Big G is loose today!"
On other matters:
• The commissioner's office and the players' association are discussing the possibility of starting the 2008 season in Tokyo, with the Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics under consideration along with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• Selig said the league does not intend to hold an official celebration to honor Barry Bonds for breaking Hank Aaron's home run record. "I think my statement was appropriate and I don't have any future plans", he said. When Bonds broke the record, Selig issued a statement saying, "While the issues which have swirled around this record will continue to work themselves toward resolution, today is a day for congratulations on a truly remarkable achievement". Asked whether he was happy with the way the record fell, Selig responded: "Look, it's fine; it's over, and I think I was".
• On the Florida Marlins' plans for a new ballpark, Selig said: "We need to make progress there. This team needs a new stadium. I've said many times I like South Florida. I think it's a major league market. But it's a major league market only if they get a new ballpark".
• Selig said he hopes to decide on the host of the 2010 All-Star game in the next month or so. "Then I'll determine 2011 and probably do a few of those. I'm going to try to go AL and NL alternating. I think that's fair, since it does determine the home-field advantage [in the World Series]".
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IS KARL ROVE DOING MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL COMMISSIONER'S THINKING NOW? – Tabacco
Bud Selig announced today that Jason Giambi would not be disciplined after admitting charitable work and steroid use! That’s like saying, “If you confess and play in the Majors, you get a “Get out of jail FREE Pass”. Any MLB player can squeeze through that door! It’s the same as a Presidential Pardon across the board. I anticipate something like that occurring for all members of the Bush administration the day before Bush leaves office. Bud Selig just beat him to the punch.
Jason Giambi, first through Escape Hatch,
but not its Primary Escapee! How clever of
Selig to let a White guy go through first.
Nobody will complain about a White guy.
If Bonds went through first, ESPN would
have a Poplar tree and a noose, hanging
from it on its program set. Now I know where
Karl Rove is part-timing these days!
Surprise! Baseball is PROTECTING BARRY BONDS! All Bonds has to do is write a couple of checks and say, "Yes, I did it and I'm sorry", and he gets the same treatment as Giambi - no punishment, no suspension and no *! All baseball players get to slide through that gaping hole that Selig has created.
Selig is no idiot. If Tabacco can see how this affects Bonds, then Selig can see how this affects Bonds. If major league baseball were to lose Jason Giambi, it would hurt nobody except Yankee fans. Steinbrenner would just open the vault and replace Giambi. But if baseball were to lose Bonds, the repercussions would be felt in Peoria. They don’t break into the show on ESPN when Giambi comes to bat!
Is Selig's Solution apropos? HELL, NO! It's silly. But worse than that, it presumes - and correctly so - that the fans are gullible and silly too. Let’s not forget that Don Sutton, Gaylord Perry and Lew Burdette, two Hall of Fame pitchers and a World Series MVP pitcher, used the ILLEGAL SPITBALL! So what’s all the commotion about anyway? Pro Baseball is only a step or two up from Pro Wrestling!
Suppose George W. Bush & Dick Cheney could write a couple of checks, issue "mea culpas" and admit they started the Iraq War to make money, steal Iraqi oil and that they are sorry that over 3,600 American soldiers had to die, not to mention about 1 million Iraqis. Would that Solution satisfy you? Of course not!
But we're only talking Baseball! And for ONCE, a professional team sport is protecting a Black Superstar! H-A-L-L-E-L-U-J-A-H! Barry Bonds, not Jason Giambi, is the prime beneficiary of this decision.
They can't touch Barry until he becomes eligible for the Hall of Fame. And all those Southern bigots will have to explain why they would punish Bonds by denying him their vote when Bud Selig put his own stamp of approval on all, who admit steroid use and write checks. And remember that Barry Bonds did the hardest thing in sports better than anybody else, even Mark McGuire. Just hitting a major league pitcher is tough enough, steroids or no steroids – just ask Michael Jordan!
If you’re still not convinced that Barry Bonds fits Selig’s profile, type these words in your Browser window and see what you get:
Even Barry’s detractors, and they are legion, admit Barry does CHARITY!
Tabacco: I consider myself both a funnel and a filter. I funnel information, not readily available on the Mass Media, which is ignored and/or suppressed. I filter out the irrelevancies and trivialities to save both the time and effort of my Readers and bring consternation to the enemies of Truth & Fairness! When you read Tabacco, if you don’t learn something NEW, I’ve wasted your time.
In 1981's 'Body Heat', Kathleen Turner said, "Knowledge is power".
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