A-Fraud. A-Roid. A-Hole. We've heard every possible nickname under the sun in reference to Alex Rodriguez, regarding the recent revelation that he tested positive for steroids in 2003. There has been more hate directed at him in the past week or so than in his entire career.

However, who's really the fraud here? Is it really Alex Rodriguez, who betrayed our trust and confidence, after so many were convinced that he might be the hero, the knight in shining armor to take down Barry Bonds' tainted record and usher baseball back into a new, cleaner era?

No. It's not him at all. He's nothing more than a whipping boy. He's one of 104. Due to his immense talent, however, his name was the one that got leaked. Why? Because he's the best player on the list. There's no doubt about that. His name was worth more than the other 103 combined.

So is Alex Rodriguez really the villain here? Absolutely not. Sure, he was wrong to take steroids. It was illegal, it was cheating, and there is nothing right about it. However, do we need to crucify him for it, nearly 6 years after the fact? Absolutely not. The real culprit here is not the one who happened to have the misfortune of being the most skilled player on the list. It's the man who was an enabler for over a decade, and knowingly allowed this to go on under his watch, only to turn  around and make ridiculous threats when his golden boy was caught in the act.

MLB commissioner Bud Selig is acting rather high and mighty after the public has been made aware of Rodriguez' transgressions. He is suddenly talking about suspending Alex, and wiping the record books clean of the so-called "tainted" records held by players like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, etc.

While some people might look at this as a noble act of reconciliation and redemption for a game that has been corrupted, let's not overlook the real issue here.

Bud Selig does not care that players used steroids. Not one iota. This isn't speculation. This isn't opinion. This is cold, hard fact. He might say that he cares. He might threaten suspensions, and he might even have started issuing severe suspensions to those who test positive for steroids now. But that doesn't mean that he really cares about players taking steroids, and really wants them to stop.

It is now February of 2009. Alex Rodriguez tested positive in 2003. There's no way in Hell that it will happen, but Selig has threatened to suspend Rodriguez because of this incident.

If this were REALLY worthy of a suspension, then wouldn't it have happened as soon as Selig found out about it? Make no mistakes about this, people. Just because you heard about this in February of 2009 doesn't mean that Bud Selig was just recently made aware. He has known about Alex Rodriguez testing positive for years, and had failed to act until now.

Should he have acted? No, absolutely not. At the time, there was no set standard for punishments for those who took steroids. The test results were promised to be confidential, and the fact that A-Rod's results were leaked is actually a WORSE offense than him taking steroids in the first place.

While some people are looking for Bud Selig to be the one to clean up the game and bring back the innocence that we all thought that baseball once had, it's time to look for someone new to fill that role. Bud Selig is as dirty as any player who has ever cheated, or worse. He has shamed the game more than Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and the rest of the steroids users combined. He had a chance to fix this problem before it ever even became one. Yet he chose to enjoy the profits from it for as long as he possibly could, until the public outcry became too strong.

Bud Selig is a hypocrite, a liar and a disgrace to the game of baseball. If baseball really wants to clean up its act, then the first move? Fire Bud Selig.