Selig: Baseball Held To Higher Standard
Jul 28, 2014 4:17 AM
Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig believes that his sport is held to a higher standard than others.
"We are held to a higher and different standard," Selig said Tuesday in an interview on the Dan Patrick Show.
Selig brought up the NFL in the 1970s-80s, when Pittsburgh's four Super Bowl teams were alleged to have used steroids. Later, players admitted using performance-enhancing drugs.
"We have to be very careful that we don't overreact to a situation," Selig said. "For instance, the comment in football that came out about the great Steelers teams of the '70s. Should they take those Super Bowls away from the Rooneys? I don't think so.
"Steroids were and are a societal problem, not a baseball problem, and I'm proud of what we have done and we've come much farther than anybody thought. ... It's a whole different world than it was 10 years ago. It's one thing not to confront your problems when you know them, and another thing to confront them and do everything."
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