Irony just threw up on itself.

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.

Amazing.  I think the sole reason I considered doing steroid and HGH is simply because it made baseball players superhuman for so many years while Selig looked the other way.  It’s really astonishing to think that Selig is being rewarded when, in fact, he’s probably done more to promote and encourage the use of PEDs than any other person in history.  Wow.

It’s not quite on the same level, but this is almost analogous to Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.  No, not because Obama hasn’t done anything to warrant it, but because he’s employing the same tactics and tortuous interrogation techniques on prisoners in Gitmo as Bush did.  So we’re clear:

Selig : promoting PEDs and getting an award from an anti-PED foundation :: Obama : continuing to deny prisoners in Gitmo the right to an attorney and allowing them to be tortured : getting the Nobel Peace Prize

This is indisputable, do not retort.

[MLB.com]