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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Selig reminds me of John Zeigler
This is disappointing to read from someone in charge:
“Discipline for wrongdoing is important, but it is also important to create an environment so players can feel free to honestly and completely cooperate with this important investigation.”
Unless he’s creating an environment of immunity from baseball prosecution (and keeping his statement confidential so that admitting to having committed an illegal act isn’t going to bring the real prosecutors after him), what the heck is Selig talking about? What environment? Talk or else we’ll suspend you for whatever we think we can get away with?
John Zeigler once suspended Borje Salming for an entire season for having admitted that he used cocaine several years prior:
Published: September 5, 1986
The National Hockey League has suspended Borje Salming, a Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman, for eight regular-season games and fined $500 because he used cocaine several years ago, the league announced yesterday.John Ziegler, National Hockey League president, said the penalty was the ‘’the very minimum.’’ Salming, who is 35 years old and a 13-year veteran of the team, was quoted in a Toronto newspaper in May as saying that he used cocaine ‘’five, six years ago, but not since and I feel good about saying no.’’ The league suspended him for the entire season, then commuted the suspension.
Here’s the list of NHL players. The basic rule is: don’t ask, don’t tell. Pro leagues care about its image first, and the players last. There’s nothing wrong with that, since the players care about themselves first. But, don’t be a hypocrite and say otherwise. Leagues and players will do anything to ensure that they maximize their revenues.
Except for someone like Dominik Hasek, who told the Redwings a few years ago to stop paying him, since he was injured. And Pavol Demitra who would have had a sizeable bonus kick in if he scored one more goal. As it turns out, he had an empty net, and instead of shooting, passed the puck to his teammate. That act of generosity cost him something like 500,000$ a year, for two years. The Blues *wanted* him to score since they had an insurance policy against the bonus. It would not have cost them an extra cent. Why did he do that? Because he passed the puck to a teammate who had a 300,000$ bonus on the line. The shot was deflected, and both players got nothing.
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