{"id":373298,"date":"2021-11-27T23:12:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hall-of-fames-steroid-cloud-goes-back-to-steinbrenner-selig\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T23:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T20:12:19","slug":"hall-of-fames-steroid-cloud-goes-back-to-steinbrenner-selig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hall-of-fames-steroid-cloud-goes-back-to-steinbrenner-selig\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hall of Fame&#8217;s steroid cloud goes back to Steinbrenner, Selig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40701c5651c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40701c5651c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hall-of-fames-steroid-cloud-goes-back-to-steinbrenner-selig\/#Bettors_arent_ones_profiting_from_parlays\" >Bettors aren\u2019t ones profiting from parlays<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hall-of-fames-steroid-cloud-goes-back-to-steinbrenner-selig\/#Recruit_charged_in_killing\" >Recruit charged in killing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hall of Fame&#8217;s steroid cloud goes back to Steinbrenner, Selig<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Phil Mushnick\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Oh, she\u2019ll be comin\u2019 \u2019round the mountain when she comes, when she comes.<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019s here!<\/p>\n<p>This past Monday, the 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame eligibles were posted. Let the debates begin! Same old stuff? Sure, but it might supply middle relief to all those sports radio and TV get-rich come-ons to go-broke betting parlays.<\/p>\n<p>What to do, again, about all those steroid sluggers and slingers as per the Hall of Fame?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it all depends on what you now regard as baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a structure that honors the legacies of men of exceptional natural achievement and reasonably good character and dignity in career service to The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Or should it now double as a repository of the extraordinary accumulation of numbers by the hook or by crook? Is it now a house of cards built on steroid suspicions, facts and rationalizations? Is the future not what it used to be?<\/p>\n<p>And what does this have to do with the late George Steinbrenner?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s examine a twisted path that began with Steinbrenner and has affected and afflicted Hall of Fame inclusions, candidates and opinions to this day, specifically Monday \u2014 when Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds were listed as 10-year last-chancers, while Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz are first-chancers.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s start at the end. The Steroid Era would not have occurred under the commissionership of Fay Vincent, a man who could do straight math and see what he couldn\u2019t miss. Vincent regarded baseball, first and foremost, as a cherished American sport, his position one of national trust.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/71650053EZ108_New_York_Yank.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Hall of Fame\" class=\"wp-image-20288351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/71650053EZ108_New_York_Yank.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/71650053EZ108_New_York_Yank.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/71650053EZ108_New_York_Yank.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bud Selig and George Steinbrenner in 2009.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bud Selig, Vincent\u2019s successor, was a steward who only measured MLB\u2019s success in terms of finances \u2014 \u201cBottom Line Bud\u201d \u2014 thus the Steroid Era on his blinkered watch became a matter of both course and of course.<\/p>\n<p>Selig became acting commissioner in 1992, after Vincent was dumped because he practiced the integrity he preached. In 1998, the Hall invited doubt and curiosity when Steinbrenner was named to its board of directors. It <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently didn\u2019t matter that Steinbrenner was twice suspended, the second a temporary lifetime banishment, from baseball.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The first time was for trying to buy his way into the Nixon White House then directing employees to lie about it to federal investigators, both leading to felony convictions.<\/p>\n<p>The second was for embracing a delusional, mentally impaired self-declared pal of Dave Winfield\u2019s in an effort to get ugly info on Winfield.<\/p>\n<p>While Steinbrenner, his buddies in the Tampa FBI and New York <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, tried to portray Howard Spira as mobster and shakedown artist, he was nothing more menacing than a pathetic soul who was lured by the tacit bait that he\u2019d become a top-shelf executive on Steinbrenner\u2019s payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Spira was played for the vulnerable fool he was, even handed brochures to peruse about Steinbrenner\u2019s American Ship Building Company.<\/p>\n<p>He was so delusional that even when in prison he held out hope Steinbrenner would hire him as the Yankees\u2019 assistant GM.<\/p>\n<p>While Spira was convicted at trial, sentenced to 2\u2009\u00b9\/\u2082 years \u2014 sent to a federal psychiatric prison in North Carolina \u2014 Vincent saw through to the core of the case and, for a second time, Steinbrenner was suspended for the malevolent and malodorous purchase of influence.<\/p>\n<p>That decision prefaced the end of Vincent as a commissioner. Team owners would no longer suffer a man who actually took the title seriously. They oiled the skids for his removal, lest Vincent continue to be a real-deal leader and advocate for baseball as opposed to someone hired to both protect and swell their wallets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/MLB_Baseball_Lockout_1990.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1000\" alt=\"MLB\" class=\"wp-image-20288896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/MLB_Baseball_Lockout_1990.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/MLB_Baseball_Lockout_1990.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption>Fay Vincent and Bud Selig<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So next came Selig, who made a deal of willful silence and blindness with Donald Fehr\u2019s MLBPA to allow suddenly and conspicuously mass-muscled players to pack the stands and inflate TV ratings by suddenly making Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron seem irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when the steroids inevitably hit the fan \u2014 as if he and Fehr could forever keep the lid on it \u2014 Selig outrageously portrayed himself as the knight on the white steed who galloped in to save baseball. It just took Selig a dozen years to saddle up.<\/p>\n<p>Then, almost immediately after his retirement in 2015, Selig was fast-tracked into the Hall of Fame with 93.7 percent of voters\u2019 approval. In short, the Spira trial and Steinbrenner suspension gave birth to the Selig and Steroids Era.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if the Hall of Fame is now plenty good enough for Bud Selig, why not those who benefited from his see-no-evil, speak-no-evil steroid invites and bottom-line myopia?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bettors_arent_ones_profiting_from_parlays\"><\/span>Bettors aren\u2019t ones profiting from parlays<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Why are new, legal sports gambling operations and their media sales force so eager to have fans bet parlays? While this column has tried to make it plain that it\u2019s because parlays are fools\u2019 gold \u2014 hard to win and pay rotten odds if one hits \u2014 now we have some hard numbers:<\/p>\n<p>According the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, through October, N.J. has already cleared $608 million this year on sports betting. That\u2019s a lot of losing, brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>But the most profitable for the operators, by far, has been on \u201cget-rich!\u201d parlays \u2014 $335.2 million through October, more than three times more than on other bets.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the breakdown on profits: parlays 17.1 percent, other 5.3 percent, baseball 4.2 percent, basketball 3.9 percent, football 3.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>As Lt. Kojak would say, \u201cWho loves ya, baby?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>\u2019Tis the season: For some not-so-odd reason, the holiday buying season is chosen by sports collectibles operations to heavily discount its goods, 20-60 percent off. Fabulous!<\/p>\n<p>But given that the merchandise, much of carrying claims of players\u2019 genuine autographs as per \u201ccertificates of authenticity,\u201d have no established value, discounts mean nothing, as if plucked from the air and the imaginations of sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, 60 percent off something that has no known value! I\u2019ll take two!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recruit_charged_in_killing\"><\/span>Recruit charged in killing<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Stories that once seemed so impossible and horrifying that they\u2019d make huge <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> are now given minimal attention or just ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Cameron Walker, a 17-year-old high school senior from Georgia who had committed to play basketball at George Mason University in Virginia, was arrested, charged with the shooting murder of a 24-year-old man during an armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Ho-hum, dime-a-dozen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/1355405391.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=800\" alt=\"Lakers\" class=\"wp-image-20288140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/1355405391.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/1355405391.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=400 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><figcaption>LeBron James<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Get off LeBron James\u2019 back. That crotch-grabbing dance he performed after hit a 3 this past week was just an audition for the Super Bowl halftime show.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>NBC\u2019s telecast of the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade was again exploited to promote NBC shows, acts and other goods \u2014 including the Winter Olympics, which NBC now must pretend will not be held in despotic Communist China in a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, all those pro-democracy advocates locked up or \u201cdisappeared\u201d in China, who cares? NBC Olympic personnel and Olympians can select their ensembles from China\u2019s Nike outlet factory stores, open all day and night. Tell \u2019em LeBron sent ya!\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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