Blame it on Bud (Selig, that is)

San Jose Mercury News: Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig's bungling of the steroid era ensures that he will go down in history as one of the game's worst stewards.
Selig and Major League Baseball should have moved years ago to preserve the integrity of the game, beginning with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's assault on Roger Maris' single-season home run record in 1998.
Now if Barry Bonds is indicted on perjury or tax-evasion charges as expected, the commissioner has only himself to blame for being in the unenviable position of deciding whether to suspend the San Francisco Giants slugger.
It's a no-win call.
Don't suspend Bonds so he can continue to pursue Hank Aaron's career home run record, and Selig will appear as if he still has his head in the sand.
Likely reactions
Suspend Bonds, and Giant fans and a multitude of others will demand to know why the commissioner is acting before Bonds has been convicted of anything. After all, the NBA didn't suspend Los Angeles Laker star Kobe Bryant after he was charged with rape, and the NFL didn't suspend the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis when he was charged with murder.
Even worse, Selig knows that even if he suspends Bonds, an arbiter would likely overturn the decision, as happened when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended Chicago Cubs pitcher Ferguson Jenkins after a drug arrest in 1980.
If Selig wants to take a serious step toward restoring the game's integrity, he should pour millions of baseball's revenues into drug-testing equipment, beef up investigations and challenge the players' union to help clean up the game. But that would take leadership, a quality Major League Baseball has found in short supply since Selig took office in 1998.