Selig done after 2006?

Alan T · 04-24-2003, 05:50 PM

Now I would get excited at this news if I honestly thought the owners would ever allow a commish in that would actually not be their lapdog...

From ESPN: http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2003/0424/1544115.html

Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Bud Selig does not intend to seek a new term as baseball commissioner after his current deal expires in December 2006.

Selig, 67, became acting commissioner in September 1992 after the forced resignation of Fay Vincent. Despite saying he didn't intend to take the job permanently, Selig agreed to a five-year term in July 1998. Owners then gave him a new five-year term in November 2001, a contract that expires on Dec. 31, 2006.

"So now here we are,'' Selig told a group from Associated Press Sports Editors on Thursday. "I have another 3½, 3¾ years. I expect to do it. Thankfully for me, at that point that would be enough.

"For a guy who took it in Sept. 9, 1992, and I told my wife it was two-to-four months -- 14 years later ... I think that will be enough. There's no question, because there are other things I really would like to do.''

Asked again if this was his final term, Selig responded; "Oh, there's no question.''

Under Selig, baseball added an extra round of playoffs in 1995, splitting each league into three divisions instead of two, and began interleague play in 1997.

While the sport was hurt by a 232-day strike in 1994-95, players and owners agreed to a labor deal last August without a stoppage -- the first time that happened since 1970.

Selig also successfully pushed for expanded revenue sharing in the last two labor deals.

samifan24 · 04-24-2003, 05:52 PM

Thank God. Only then will integrity begin to be restored to the game.

Qwikshot · 04-24-2003, 06:09 PM

The game will be beyond recovery by then, if it isn't already.

path12 · 04-24-2003, 06:27 PM

I've hated Selig since I was 8 years old in 1970 and he bought the Seattle Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee. Luckily, I've been able to put that behind me......that BASTARD!!!

It's been a long and productive hate.

Iceberg · 04-24-2003, 06:28 PM

Damn it why do we have to wait till 2006?

Craptacular · 04-24-2003, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by samifan24
Only then will integrity begin to be restored to the game.

LMAO. Yes, it is Selig who is keeping integrity out of MLB.

No, I don't like the guy either, but he only deserves a small part of the blame for MLB's ills.

samifan24 · 04-24-2003, 07:41 PM

Selig and the owners are to blame. Yes, salaries are out of control...but what else do you blame baseball's problems on? Selig and the current group of owners are the only ones to blame.

Craptacular · 04-24-2003, 08:25 PM

Selig and the owners and the players and their agents and the fans ...

lynchjm24 · 04-24-2003, 08:46 PM

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Originally posted by samifan24
Yes, salaries are out of control...but what else do you blame baseball's problems on?

I know I'm in the minority here, but who cares how much guys make anyway.

There are more great players today then at any point in history. There are going to be some great races this year. It's been an interesting first 3-4 weeks, and things are shaping up nicely.

samifan24 · 04-24-2003, 09:45 PM

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Originally posted by Craptacular
Selig and the owners and the players and their agents and the fans ...

Then we're in agreement. Selig is at the heart of baseball's problems. While not solely responsible for the state of the game, he has had a hand in it.

edit: typo

Craptacular · 04-24-2003, 09:56 PM

No doubt he's had a hand in it. After all, he was a used car salesmen, which we all know is right in-between crack-whore apprentice and porn booth mop-up man on the bottom of the employment totem pole. Still, there's plenty of blame to go around.

ISiddiqui · 04-25-2003, 02:00 AM

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No, I don't like the guy either, but he only deserves a small part of the blame for MLB's ills.

Exactly! The Players Union deserves a substantial portion of the blame as well... in fact, I'd probably blame them more than the Owners at this point.

astralhaze · 04-25-2003, 02:07 AM

Why do people seem to be under the impression that baseball once existed in some sort of utopian pristine state and only recently has become corrupted?

There have been changes, yes, some for the worse, many more for the better, IMO. However, the game itself (on the field I mean) is as good, or as Bill James argues, better than it has ever been. There are problems, no doubt, but they are just different problems than in, say, 1917 or 1973 or *gasp* 1954.

andy m · 04-25-2003, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lynchjm24
I know I'm in the minority here, but who cares how much guys make anyway.

There are more great players today then at any point in history. There are going to be some great races this year. It's been an interesting first 3-4 weeks, and things are shaping up nicely.

absolutely.

people's incessant focus on the bumbling idiot Selig, and the off the field shenanigans that go on are distracting them from some great baseball.

04-24-2003, 05:52 PM	#2
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	Thank God. Only then will integrity begin to be restored to the game. __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

04-24-2003, 06:09 PM	#3
Qwikshot Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: ...down the gravity well	The game will be beyond recovery by then, if it isn't already. __________________ "General Woundwort's body was never found. It could be that he still lives his fierce life somewhere else, but from that day on, mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them. Such was Woundwort's monument, and perhaps it would not have displeased him." Watership Down, Richard Adams

04-24-2003, 06:27 PM	#4
path12 Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle, WA	I've hated Selig since I was 8 years old in 1970 and he bought the Seattle Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee. Luckily, I've been able to put that behind me......that BASTARD!!! It's been a long and productive hate. __________________ We have always been at war with Eastasia.

04-24-2003, 07:41 PM	#7
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	Selig and the owners are to blame. Yes, salaries are out of control...but what else do you blame baseball's problems on? Selig and the current group of owners are the only ones to blame. __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

04-25-2003, 02:07 AM	#13
astralhaze College Prospect Join Date: Dec 2002	Why do people seem to be under the impression that baseball once existed in some sort of utopian pristine state and only recently has become corrupted? There have been changes, yes, some for the worse, many more for the better, IMO. However, the game itself (on the field I mean) is as good, or as Bill James argues, better than it has ever been. There are problems, no doubt, but they are just different problems than in, say, 1917 or 1973 or gasp 1954. __________________ I can understand Brutus at every meaning, but that parahraphy threw me for a loop.

04-24-2003, 06:28 PM	#5
Iceberg H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Kensington, MD	Damn it why do we have to wait till 2006?

04-24-2003, 08:25 PM	#8
Craptacular College Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: The Mad City, WI	Selig and the owners and the players and their agents and the fans ...

04-24-2003, 09:56 PM	#11
Craptacular College Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: The Mad City, WI	No doubt he's had a hand in it. After all, he was a used car salesmen, which we all know is right in-between crack-whore apprentice and porn booth mop-up man on the bottom of the employment totem pole. Still, there's plenty of blame to go around.

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