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Phil Mushnick takes MLB, Bud Selig deep on Steroids

When it comes to calling out scoundrels, nobody puts a fine point on it like Phil Mushnick. This article calling out Selig and the owners for turning a blind eye, pandering, enabling, and then counting the money is as accurate and gard-hitting as any I’ve seen anywhere.

He only left out one thing: tickets are now more expensive because of steroids too. With all these records being broken, players could command more money. That filtered up to the owners who passed the cost on to you. And I’m not just talking raising prices for S.F. Giants games during Bonds’s “chases.” I’m talking PSLs, $25 parking, $850 tickets, $50 for dinner, $8.50 beer. I mean did you see the “restaurant choices” for the Mets’ new stadium? Wine cellars? Gourmet pheasant and venison? Blue Smoke and Belgian Frites? Just what are we trying to prove? How decadent the rich are and how much they disdain the hoi polloi? I feel like the guy in the Miller Light Commercials:

The whole place is section La-de-da…A family can’t take they wife and kids to the game anymore. It wouldn’t be this way if we didn’t pay neanderthals $20 million a year to throw a baseball.

You know whose face should be on a baseball card? You know who NEEDS to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame? Jeff Novitzky. The G-man who is cleaning up the game, and kicking ass and taking names in the process. He’s a true hero. He deserves a raise to $20 million. Not a year, though, for life. He can live quite easily on the interest. We need to save the rest of the cash for small businesses. Can’t give it to the big guys, they can’t be trusted. After all, look what people like them did to Major League Baseball.

It’s time for the anti-trust exemption to be lifted. A little competition will shape up the ship quickly.

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