"In the early '90s, the federal government came into pro wrestling and tried to put (WWE Chairman) Vince McMahon in prison for steroid use of wrestlers," Ventura told the NBC affiliate in Denver over the weekend. "My question is: They've now determined 104 baseball players failed their steroid test in 2003 — 104. They indicted Vince McMahon, why aren't they indicting Bud Selig? He's the head of baseball, it happened on his watch."
In 1994, McMahon was indeed prosecuted for distributing steroids to some of his wrestlers, including his top star at the time, Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea. He was found not guilty."What you have here is two sets of law enforcement," Ventura added. "One set: 'Oh, pro wrestling, let's go after the head of that and put him in prison for steroid use.' And pro wrestling is not even an athletic competition. We went to court and said we're sports entertainment. Here, you have a legitimate athletic competition with 104 guys using illegal drugs — cheating — and where's the indictment of Bud Selig on this?
"They indicted Vince McMahon. He had to beat it with his own lawyers or go to prison. How come Selig isn't being treated the same way?
"You can't tell me for one minute that Bud Selig and the owners didn't know. They were profiting from it. Baseball was dead in the water until the big home run race between (Mark) McGwire and Sosa — Sammy — and that rejuvenated baseball, made all the profits so Bud Selig could make $17 million a year."Jesse has a point but Selig should be second in the indictment line, behind MLBPA executive director Donald Fehr.
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Interesting thought. I need to read up on Vince McMahon and that case. In the same vein, does this mean we can sue Obama if any government organization is caught cheating?
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