Allan H. Selig, Major League Baseball’s commissioner, is taking some serious heat for his testimony before Congress on two separate occasions.  The first time Bud appeared before Congress was to discuss the financial woes of MLB.  In his testimony he declared that only three teams made any money at all in MLB and the rest all lost money to the tune of 14.3 billion dollars over the last 10 years.  He also went on to say that two teams needed to be contracted to help right the ship that is MLB.  When asked daunting questions from Congressman Mel Watt of NC, Bud ignored the questions and stuck to his contrived script.  After many people reviewed all of Bud Selig’s statements on the financial woes of MLB, many officials have basically said Bud Selig is a liar and has always been a liar.  He has completely misquoted financial information and also has not included a clear picture of the facts.  Representative Conyers asked Bud for more detailed information and yet Bud refused to give him those statistics because they will show that Selig committed perjury.

Secondly, in the Congressional hearings on Steroid use in baseball, Bud once again was up to his crafty ways.  You would think Bud had been crying “Wolf” for years if you listen to his testimony.  Here is what Bud said at his 2004 testimony,

“One of my primary policy objectives as the Commissioner of Baseball is to eliminate the use of performance-enhancing substances in our great game….My commitment on this issue is long-standing.”

Later on, Bud says he has been committed to stopping steroids since 1999.  He even goes as far as to say he convened a special meeting with his staffers and then implemented a plan for immediate intervention yet he did not start his plan until 2001 in the minor leagues.  So if he took immediate action how can it take 2 years.  Sounds like perjury to me.

But then in 2005 Bud is quoted as saying,

"Did we have a major problem? No," Selig said. "Let me say this to you: There is no concrete evidence of that, there is no testing evidence, there is no other kind of evidence."

Speaking on a condition of anonymity, Donald Fehr said, "Bud will never be convicted because he is always intentionally ambiguous and no one ever understands a word he says!"  Fehr went on to say no one cares what Selig says either.

These facts alone do not prove perjury and as many noted law professors have stated, perjury charges are hard to gain a conviction on the worst liars. 

 

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