MILWAUKEE — A statue of Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig will be erected this year in Milwaukee. The tribute is said to be for Selig’s role as head of the group that brought the Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee, which were renamed the Brewers in 1970. However, many powerful baseball purists hate the fact that the steroid era was ushered in under Selig’s reign, which has put in doubt the intentions of the city’s gesture of apparent goodwill. “We asked them point blank, are you going to encase Selig alive in the statue,” said Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sports reporter Tom Haudricourt. “And they couldn’t adamantly deny it.” The Selig statue may be an elaborate ruse to off the commissioner, much like Philadelphia’s Bud Selig Fireworks display in 2004, where Phillies fans tried to set Selig on a powder keg on the 4th of July.