Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spoke out against MLB commissioner Bud Selig's handling of Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez's suspension. He appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and called Selig's actions "disgraceful," USA Today Sports reports.
Leno asked Cuban what he thought about Rodriguez's suspension.
"Horrible. I think it's disgraceful what Major League Baseball is trying to do to him. It's not that he doesn't deserve to be suspended, he does. But they have policies in place, you know? First time offenders, fifty games. Second time, 100. 214 games? That's personal.
"... It's basically become Bud Selig's mafia. He runs it the way he wants to run it. They don't want me to own the team? ... When I was trying to buy the Rangers, it was an open auction. And I sat in there with my good, hard-earned money trying to bid and they did everything possible to keep me from buying the team. They had lawyers in there trying to change the rules, they had people trying to put up more money. It was horrible."
Cuban hasn't had the best experience with Selig. Cuban twice tried to buy an MLB franchise and failed both times, according to USA Today Sports. He first tried to buy the Chicago Cubs in 2009 for $1.3 billion. After failing to purchase the Cubs, he bid $600 million for the Texas Rangers. His bid was passed over for the bid of a group led by Nolan Ryan, which paid $593 million with $385 million of it in cash.
