Baseball has again proved why its administration and players themselves are responsible for the game's demise. Michael Wilbon and Dan Le Batard just debated the new issue on Pardon the Interruption. A Fred Mitchell report (Chicago Tribune) says that "more than 70" corked bats were in the Cubs' clubhouse the night Sammy Sosa busted his open and that 1/3 of the bats DID NOT belong to Sosa. Oh lawd, baseball's in trouble. Now we can all begin to understand just how many players cheated in baseball in ways outside of steroids.
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But it gets better - the report also says that MLB officials told the Cubs that they had an hour to clear all these bats from the clubhouse/dugout before any measures were being advanced. Oh jeez, Bud Selig. If this is true, all of Selig's and baseball's credibility is eliminated - in my eyes. Selig can no longer act like he's mulling over his decision about whether or not to follow Bonds's inevitable defeat of history and the record books, if this is true.
This will break any semblance of credibility that the public has for baseball players and the league administration. Confirmation of the story's validity would mean that league officials not only turned a blind eye to cheating, but that they've captained it at times.
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