Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 03, 2007
No Wonder Bud Won't Retire

If you're going to work for a sport's commissioner, you should work for MLB:

Baseball's central office paid $77.3 million in salaries and benefits to 231 employees, the report said. The NFL paid $41.5 million to 839 employees in 12 months ending March 31 last year and the NHL $13.9 million to 56 employees in the year ending June 30, 2005, when staff was reduced because of a lockout.

Bud received $14.5 million in 2005, although some of that was for expenses. It sounds like he's making more money as commissioner than as an owner! By the way, I don't have a problem with this at all. It just speaks to the success of the game.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:41 PM | Commissioner | TrackBack (0)
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After slicing Bud off the top, that's an average salary of $275,000!

Wow. And you don't even have to know how to hit the curve.

Posted by: Mr. Furious at April 3, 2007 03:03 PM

I don't have a problem with the money either, but I hate Bud Selig. He is such a sleeze.....why can't someone find a picture of Bud pulling down the the pants of a little boy?

I know I'm Paris Hilton and I shouldn't be calling anyone a sleeze, but all I do is have sex and my videos are then posted on the net. Everyone benefits from that, the members of SABR have valued my VORP to be better than Pujols, Ryan Howard, and David Ortiz combined. The members of SABR love my videos more than they love Bill James, too.

Posted by: Paris Hilton at April 3, 2007 03:52 PM

Re: bud retiring, I'd guess it's also something of a rewarding job. I wouldn't want to give it up... besides, what else is he going to do with the few years he has remaining? Play shuffleboard and hit on the staff at a retirement home somewhere?

Posted by: SleepyCA at April 3, 2007 04:10 PM

With a salary like that, it makes sense that the steroid issue isn't of great concern to him. He's making his money so why should cleaning up the game truly matter to him?

Meanwhile, the Mitchell Investigation rolls out without a single bit of evidence having been uncovered.

Cola
http://www.classiccolaforthesoul.com

Posted by: Cola at April 3, 2007 08:23 PM
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