True but it did save the game. Prior to the Steroid Era interest in the game was waning, especially after the strike year that canceled the World Series. Selig knew what was going on, he just looked the other way because all these records falling was helping bring baseball to it's former glory.
Yeah, this *probably* saves him from having to do a nationally televised mea culpa press conference, a la Andy Pettite, in front of several hundred press members.
The last 3-4 years have hopefully enlightened a lot of people about how widespread steroids became in baseball. The playing field was a lot more level than people initially thought, because so many players were using. And as Blackjack200 says, the commissioner and owners were complicit in the whole mess, and have now effectively thrown the best players from that era under the bus -- when it was their policies, or complete lack thereof, that allowed it to snowball.
I think he's given up on the HOF. I suspect he wanted to get back into baseball sooner than this, but decided to wait, see if he could hide out and let it blow over and maybe get HOF first, and continue to deny deny deny, like most everyone else is still doing.
