Should Bud Stay or Should Bud Go?

NY Times sports writer Murray Chase is conducting a poll on what MLB Commissioner Bud Selig should do when Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s all-time HR record.

 

Chass lays out the scenarios here:

 

“Bonds’s approach to the home run record has Commissioner Bud Selig in a quandary. Should he plan to be at the game in which Bonds breaks Aaron’s record? Or would he be justified in staying away, refusing to celebrate what most people believe is a chemically aided total of home runs?

 

Or should Selig be there but opt out of the on-field celebration of the feat?”

 

Email him at this address - mchass@nytimes.com – with these options: 1) Go,   2) stay home   3) Go but stay in your seat

 

For what it’s worth, my own opinion is for #1. Bud and his boys turned a blind eye to the steroids problem in the 1990s (with a big assist from the player’s union). For all of the public “evidence” and statistical anomalies, Bonds has never tested positive for steroids and never been indicted for perjury. Bud made this bed, and now he should be forced to directly deal with the mess.

 

But Bud being Bud, I’m sure the spineless, used car salesman weasel will beg off and be completely absent and incommunicado when the record is broken later this year.