ESPN Suspends Scott Van Pelt For Bud Selig Comments

Last week, when I found out that Bud Selig had made over $18 million in 2007 to slowly destroy run baseball, I was a bit appalled, and let my feelings on the subject be known. As you'd expect, I wasn't the only person who was a bit taken aback by the news.

Selig's salary was the discussion of many sports radio programs last week, including one with ESPN's Scott Van Pelt, in which Van Pelt discussed his shock to learn of Bud's bouillon. Well, thankfully I write for AOL and not ESPN, because if I did I probably wouldn't be allowed to write this post, seeing as how Van Pelt won't be hosting his radio show for a while.

SVP was suspended from his radio show on Monday, according to multiple WWL sources.

Van Pelt declined to comment on the incident, passing it along to ESPN media relations, who "do not comment about personnel decisions." The story, passed along through several people, was that Van Pelt's rant about Selig was "too personal" for some of the ESPN bosses - comments about his slovenly appearance, something about a "pimp cup" - which led to the suspension. Van Pelt, reportedly on his own volition, called Selig to apologize and was in agreement that his statements were a little harsh.

You can hear the audio of what Van Pelt said in Deadspin's story as well.

In my opinion, Van Pelt didn't really say anything that was worthy of a suspension as much as he said it on a radio show owned by ESPN, which happens to have some rather important business ties with Major League Baseball. All he said was that he was shocked Selig earned that much money considering some of his decisions while in charge, and the fact that he looks like a "substitute teacher." I always thought chemistry teacher, as he does bare an uncanny resemblance to my AP Chemistry teacher in high school.

It's not like Van Pelt said that Selig eats babies. Which he does. Or at least I think he does, but thinking is all the proof I need!