Letting the Captains Off the Hook

I watched some clips of testimony of Selig and Fehr at the ongoing Mitchell Steroid investigation and it's insightful how the individuals who are ultimately responsible for the conduct of its employee's; that being Selig, Fehr and the owners, are let off the hook relatively unscathed while the players are being held to the fire. While I don't have a lot of sympathy for the players who have been using the Performance Enhancing drugs and lying about it, shouldn't the Commissioner of Baseball and the Executive Director of the Players Association be held to account as well? At the least, one would think that the owners would demand the resignation of Selig to give the appearance of caring about the business that they are involved with.

Perhaps it's just the reflection of society at large that the individuals who are at the top of the food chain seldom get punished for their laspes but pass the responsiblity on to the people who are further down on the totem pole. As the saying goes, 'it rolls downhill'. It reminds me of a company I once worked for that was fined a couple of hundred million dollars for Medicare reimbursement violations. As part of the settlement with the government, the company agreed to have ALL of it's employees sit through numerous meetings and discussions about ethics and proper conduct of it's employees; never mind the fact that the drivers, janitors and other lowly employees had no access or means to bring about violations of the law, it was the 'We're Guilty, So We Are Going to Make YOU Pay' mentality.