Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 29, 2002
Joe Sheehan of the Baseball

Joe Sheehan of the Baseball Prospectus gives a good summary of Selig's cyber town meeting. I don't disagree with anything in the article. Bud is bad for baseball. Selig has been there for every work stoppage. If in 1972, he had said, "Let's avoid war. Let's take the players in as partners and build the sport together," who knows what would have happened. He'd be a hero. But for thirty years he has wanted to put the players back into serfdom. And as far as I can tell, for one reason; he wants the Brewers to win, and he can't do it through intelligent building of a franchise. The only way he can do it is to pull other teams down to his level, where he's able to compete. I don't know how to get the owners to fire him. I suppose we could protest outside the MLB offices everyday. We could write the owner of our favorite team and complain. But Bud owns a lot of owners at this point. He let Steinbrenner back in the league after Vincent had banned him. He got Henry the Red Sox. He got Loria the Marlins. He owns the Brewers and Expos. And no one comes into the league without giving Bud his alligence. It's a bad situation. I wish I had a more constructive suggestion for his removal. Maybe if the game is stopped again by a strike, owners will come to their senses and oust him.


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