Funny, I recall a few years ago that Selig was explicit in praising both Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, not to mention then-third-place Roger Maris during the great home run chase of 1998. Funny, baseball still celebrates that very second-place status of Babe Ruth almost daily. Funny, this smacks of an ad hoc decision based on innuendo and allegations and with nothing proven.
Every year, Major League Baseball presents trophies for second place teams. Makes sort of a big deal of it too. Now Babe Ruth is no great shakes? Suddenly, Bonds looks like he is going to settle in to second place in the history of the game's most hallowed record, and Selig becomes a stickler for primacy and primacy only? Bud Selig might be the most incompetent commissioner in the history of sports. I'll get to this at some point, but for the record, Fay Vincent may be the most underrated commissioner in history, and the owners drove him from the job. Selig, meanwhile, couldn't find his ass with a Global Positioning System, and he keeps right on rolling along. It baffles the imagination.
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Derek, I couldn't agree woth you more. The level of stupidity and incompetence that Bud Selig consistently displays is truly, truly amazing. He is so absolutely inept at everything he does. And the only image people will be left of him when he finally gets the hell out of baseball is him shrugging his shoulders at the All-Star game a few years back when he was expected to make a decision about the game. Idiot. F*&^(*$% idiot.
Greg --
Interestingly, of all of Bud's sins, the All Star Game one most symbollically encapsulates his career, but in many ways, the flaws in the way managers now use players in the game was the real problem.
As I say, I may address this someday, but let's keep in mind why Fay Vincent was fired: The owners disagreed with him on the following issues: Interleague play; Realignment; Expansion. What have we had? Interleague play, realignment, and expansion. he left ina cloud of disgrace, even though he may have been the most visionary commissioner we have ever had, including Giammatti, more than whom no one has ever loved the game.
To appropriate from Vito Corleone, "Selig is a pimp."
dcat
(Holmes: I only engage with guys whose teams have won titles in this century.)
I'm still peeved that Bud Selig suspended Albert Belle for running over Fernando Vina that one time, just because Vina was on the Brewers, which Bud owned. I don't know what a titwillow is, but Selig is most certainly a craven one.
Speaking of baseball... oh, you know the rest.
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