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He allowed the game to “modernize” by looking the other way when players such as Barry Bonds and Mark Mcgwire were clearly on the juice. It put fans back into the stands after the baseball strike in 1994-1995.

While it's quite popular these days to bad mouth Bonds and Sosa and McGwire, I think a lot of people forget how dismal baseball was looking after the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. At that time, the NBA was on the rise, the NFL was rock solid, and even hockey was enjoying new popularity with Gretzky and Lemieux.

That home run race in 1998 brought MLB back from the dark, and even though we now know much more than we did then, it strikes me as a disgrace the way baseball insiders like Selig have allowed a few of those guys to shoulder the entire blame.

The worst development in sports isn't PEDs or expansion or tinkering with the playoffs, but it's the use of public funds for sports stadiums. I'm not sure where it started, but we haven't even begun to experience the problems that will bring. Once the government gets their foot in the door in any industry, you can be sure trouble is coming. Don't know if you can blame that on Selig, though.