Stupidity is rewarded
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:02 pm
by PhilipNelsonFan
http://www.realgmbaseball.com/src_wiret ... extension/
Of course, baseball still has surging attendance and cash inflow numbers and there's probably no one else, but Selig is little more than a set piece who has let a long and inconclusive report on steroids define his tenure.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:21 pm
by Basketball Jesus
This isn
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:59 pm
by hermes
i would have thought that bud would have stepped down
to avoid all of the critisim he gets
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:19 pm
by a-rod
Basketball Jesus wrote:This isn
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:52 pm
by Basketball Jesus
It's not really an excuse; the MLBPA has had the league by the balls for decades now. It's nothing exclusive to Selig. Pinning all the current problems on him is inaccurate.
Sure, Selig deserves some blame but this problem started long before he even took office...
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:58 pm
by Da Schwab
And I was so looking forward to the end of the Selig Era. Not as much for the whole steroid debacle, but for how unnecessarily oblivious he is to the game as a whole.
IMHO, he is the worst commish in any sport, maybe in history.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:00 am
by Rafael122
Worse than Gary Bettman?
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:33 am
by Basketball Jesus
Nobody's worse than Gary Betteman. Well, Roger Goodell is coming dangerously close relatively fast...
Selig's nowhere near the worst commissioner in baseball. Hell, he's probably not even the worst commissioner of the past 25 years (Fay Vincent, take a bow!).
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:37 am
by WEFFPIM
hermes wrote:i would have thought that bud would have stepped down
to avoid all of the critisim he gets
If Selig is facing huge amounts of criticism now, if he stepped down it'd be like pouring gasoline onto a wildfire.
And Gary Bettman takes the cake as the worst commish in pro sports, although recently he's been doing a decent job. But my God that lockout was a debacle that crippled the NHL, maybe irreparably.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:39 am
by TSC25
a-rod wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
I don't buy it. That sounds like an excuse, not like reality. but hey everybody deserves a second chance!
Not in the eyes of the people who vote for the Hall of Fame!
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:06 am
by PhilipNelsonFan
Basketball Jesus wrote:This isn
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:37 pm
by Basketball Jesus
Not at all; thanks to years of incompetence, the commissioner is pretty damn impotent when it comes to dealing with the MLBPA.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:50 pm
by hermes
WEFFPIM wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
If Selig is facing huge amounts of criticism now, if he stepped down it'd be like pouring gasoline onto a wildfire.
And Gary Bettman takes the cake as the worst commish in pro sports, although recently he's been doing a decent job. But my God that lockout was a debacle that crippled the NHL, maybe irreparably.
ya maybe he feels obligated to straighten everything out