Bud Selig Wins Award for PED Education, Destroys Concept of Irony

If I were looking for people who had done much to curb the use of performance-enhancing drugs, I think I might take Arnold Schwarzenegger over Bud Selig. Apparently, the Taylor Hooton Foundation thinks differently.

NEW YORK -- Commissioner Bud Selig was named the first recipient of Taylor's Award, presented by the Taylor Hooton Foundation to an individual who has made a major impact on efforts to educate and protect American youth from the dangers of using performance-enhancing drugs.

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"I'm extremely proud to present the first Taylor's Award to Commissioner Bud Selig," said Don Hooton, Taylor's father, who serves as president of the Hooton Foundation, said at a media conference after the joint session. "Baseball's investment exceeds that of every other organization in the United States, including the federal government. We're proud of the work we've done. We reaching hundreds of thousands of kids. We need to reach millions of kids. But this all would not have been possible without the leadership of Commissioner Selig.

"I don't know if we'll ever do another [award], but we know where the first one is going."

I'm not going to knock the noble goals of the Hooton Foundation, which is named after a high school pitcher who committed suicide in 2003 after taking steroids. But doesn't giving an award to the commissioner of the league that stuck its head in the sand as steroid use became commonplace for doing something to make up for the fact that it created this problem in the first place seem, I dunno, counterproductive?

This would be like giving BP an award for environmental friendliness for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. There shouldn't have been anything to clean up in the first place.

Also, this may actually be worse than that statue of Selig, but, alas, I assume the small glass bat will not be put on display for pigeons to exact karmic revenge.

(HT: Unathletic.)

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