Don't try and fool me, I know you smoke weed!
If you can read, then you've probably already seen this story popping up around these here interwebs. It seems that Major League Baseball cares more about what umpires are doing in their free time than what players are injecting into their butts.
How so?
World Umpires Association president John Hirschbeck and union spokesman Lamell McMorris said Wednesday that Tom Christopher, the Milwaukee-based supervisor of security and investigations in the commissioner's office, had asked questions about Klan membership (and other bizarre stuff) to neighbors of umpires Greg Gibson and Sam Holbrook, who reside in Kentucky.
Here were some of the questions that were asked:
- Do you know if umpire 'X' is a member of th Ku Klux Klan?
- Does he grow marijuana plants?
- Does he beat his wife?
- Have you seen the police at his home?
- Does he throw wild parties?
Sure we just had the Mitchell Report come out, but that's the tip of the iceberg. Selig acted like the Mitchell Report was the final nail in the coffin and that baseball was in the process of truly cleaning itself up.
Solid work, Bud. Oh, except you were roundly criticized by the World Anti-Doping on Capitol Hill for baseball's lenient steroid testing.
And you're totally ignored the abuse of stimulants - like Ritalin - in baseball.
So what does this mean? Baseball has its priorities screwed up is what it means. And that Bud Selig should get the axe.
But both those things have been true for a long time. And neither one is going to change any time soon.
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