Braun "suspension" indicates Selig wants Second Steroid Era.

Well, The Show Must Go On, right, Alan???

(For those who don't know, Alan is Bud Selig's real first name.)

Ryan Braun, for all the histrionics and bullshit that he's pulled over the last three or so seasons, has just pled to a 65-game suspension for all his offenses, including his stuff with Biogenesis, it was announced today.

He would effectively be cleared to start the beginning of next year.

WHAT

A

FUCKING

DISGRACE

Ryan Braun has done so much against the game of baseball in his MVP-level years, Buster Olney (in an Insider-only blog post which is being free-previewed, so linking to it might not work for very long!) basically called him the Lance Armstrong of MLB.

No, Buster.  Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are the likes of the Lance Armstrongs.  Braun is, more, the Tyler Hamilton of Major League Baseball.

Bonds and Clemens were able to get away with it because of their station in American society.  Hamilton, really, only serves as a working bee to Armstrong's "queen" of the cycling "hive", as it were.

Ryan Braun lawyered his way through one offense (costing two people their jobs), lied his way through most of the Biogenesis shit and avoided questions on the rest of it.

Ryan Braun should be the same place Melky Cabrera should be after his histrionics and fake website from last year:  Baseball's Disqualified List!

How Ryan Braun is allowed into baseball after this, especially in anything which would encompass the Best Interests Of Baseball Clause, leads me to only one conclusion:

Bud Selig realizes that, at best, the former National Pastime is now a Balkanized bastardization on the American sports landscape which MIGHT have about 2-3 months to itself over the course of a calendar year (basically, the opening about 2 weeks (after March Madness, before the NBA and NHL playoffs), and then right about now while the football camps haven't opened yet).  Otherwise, if it's not the interminable Red Sox-Yankees Sunday nighter on ESPN, all people care about is either their local team or where they may have grown up.

To compete in today's sporting economy, Bud Selig feels he wants and needs the Second Steroid Era.  He basically drove Fay Vincent out of the sport due to what Vincent was going to do about drugs in MLB (and only baseball historians like my friend seem to recall this for even 15 seconds!), and, three years later, after the strike, the Steroid Era carried Roidball into the 21st century.

Now, football is God -- it's not even just "King".  Football is now Life for many of these bastards who prostrate themselves in homage and fealty to their National Religion.  (And, boy, do I have some barrels to empty on them in the next 6-7 months or so!)

Baseball -- nor anything else for that matter -- can't compete.  So Bud Selig, on his way out (or so we think) in the next three years, is going to try everything in his power to cover up just enough to get into Cooperstown while trying to revitalize an $8 billion industry (or so Buster Olney has said), and there's really only one way Selig knows how to do it.

This blatant cover-up -- part of a 20-year commissioner-ship full of pro-drug actions which should land Selig in a prison cell with Donald Fehr as his cellmate -- is just another indication of the real agenda of Bud Selig.