After the tie in the All Star game a few years back, the moving of an Astros home game against the Cubs to Milwaukee, which was essentially a Cubs home game 90 miles from Wrigley Field, and waiting until the Tampa Bay Rays tied up game 5 of the World Series before suspending the game, we all knew that Bud Selig was a whiny, sniffling, spineless horse's rear-end, but this one goes too far.

Selig, in his endless quest to make up for the fact that everyone looked the other way about steroids when baseball was trying to revive itself from the strike that canceled the 1994 World Series, has suspended Phillies reliever J.C. Romero for "negligence" in using a substance that may have contained something on Major League Baseball's banned list. The substance, which was not a performance enhancing drug, was found in a supplement purchased at a vitamin store in Cherry Hill Mall.

Major League Baseball contends that Romero tested positive for the banned substance in August, but not in September when he was tested for a second time despite taking the substance the entire time. Then they forced him to go through arbitration during the World Series! This all came after Romero was told by the MLB Players Association, Major League Baseball, the FDA and a nutritionist that this product was acceptable to ingest.

If Selig thought Romero was cheating, and it was worthy of a 50-game suspension, why did Major League Baseball allow him to continue playing in the playoffs? Shouldn't the integrity of game have forced Selig to stop Romero from playing in the World Series and winning games 3 and 5? Apparently not.

Apparently, Bud Selig wants to prove that baseball is effectively policing itself, when in fact, it is only making itself look even more foolish by suspending a player after ruling he didn't do anything that was worthy of preventing him from competing on the game's biggest stage.

Thankfully, Romero is going to fight this suspension, and I hope he wins. Not just because I'm a Phillies fan, but because baseball needs to crack down on performance enhancing drugs with a common sense approach. They should be hunting down the guys who are sticking needles in each other's butts in a locker room bathroom stall, and not suspending a guy for going to the mall and purchasing the same product that any mall-rat teenie-bopper could purchase without their parent's permission.