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Selig done after 2006?
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. |
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04-24-2003, 05:52 PM | #2 |
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Thank God. Only then will integrity begin to be restored to the game.
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04-24-2003, 06:09 PM | #3 |
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The game will be beyond recovery by then, if it isn't already.
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04-24-2003, 06:27 PM | #4 |
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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.
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04-24-2003, 06:28 PM | #5 |
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Damn it why do we have to wait till 2006?
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04-24-2003, 06:39 PM | #6 | |
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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. |
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04-24-2003, 07:41 PM | #7 |
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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.
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04-24-2003, 08:25 PM | #8 |
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Selig and the owners and the players and their agents and the fans ...
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04-24-2003, 08:46 PM | #9 | |
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04-24-2003, 09:45 PM | #10 | |
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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
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04-24-2003, 09:56 PM | #11 |
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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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04-25-2003, 02:00 AM | #12 | |
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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.
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04-25-2003, 02:07 AM | #13 |
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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.
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04-25-2003, 03:07 AM | #14 | |
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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. |
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