thoughts on Selig

[hardrain]

Perhaps many will disagree with me but --

IMO - Bud Selig brings dishonor to the game. Lately his motive seems to be to make it harder for the Yankees. He shows a conflict of interest by being the commissioner and owning the team that his daughter (wink, wink) runs. Whenever he gets a chance he complains about the game and the system he helped to create. He allows the owners to expand by adding teams (the players have no say in this) and then demands contraction. He has shady loan deals with other owners. We need a real commissioner who will not destroy the game and the capitalist system with a salary cap. We need a salary basement – this would stop owners who simply want to sit on their butt, collect revenue sharing and luxury tax from the hard-working Yankees, and not improve their team. That is welfare. The last two series prove that a small market team, if run well, can win. And now Selig is heavily involved in brokering the A_ROD deal - why would the commish get involved?.
The sooner we get a real, impartial commissioner, the better off baseball will be.

[YankeePride1967]

you won't find many here disagreeing.

[C-BUS CLIPPER]

Bud Selig is a disease on the great game of Baseball. Someone needs to end his reign of terror on the game. The hatred for the man runs deep in baseball.

[jpao89]

Originally posted by hardrain
Perhaps many will disagree with me but --

IMO - Bud Selig brings dishonor to the game. Lately his motive seems to be to make it harder for the Yankees. He shows a conflict of interest by being the commissioner and owning the team that his daughter (wink, wink) runs. Whenever he gets a chance he complains about the game and the system he helped to create. He allows the owners to expand by adding teams (the players have no say in this) and then demands contraction. He has shady loan deals with other owners. We need a real commissioner who will not destroy the game and the capitalist system with a salary cap. We need a salary basement – this would stop owners who simply want to sit on their butt, collect revenue sharing and luxury tax from the hard-working Yankees, and not improve their team. That is welfare. The last two series prove that a small market team, if run well, can win. And now Selig is heavily involved in brokering the A_ROD deal - why would the commish get involved?.
The sooner we get a real, impartial commissioner, the better off baseball will be.

Holy Echo Chamber Bat Man!!! I just posted this in the thread on the A-Rod deal.

I was reading that Bud is selling the Brewers. At first glance it would seem like he is selling to clear up the apparent conflict of interest in response to the criticism that has long been levelled at him. Instead, Bud is selling because the heat is on. The state and local authorities are conducting an investigation as to why the Brewers promised increased payroll if they got a new stadium (publicly funded) and despite that promise have reduced the payroll.

Putting aside whether Bud has or has not engaged in wrongdoing, the appearance of impropriety is staggering. From his involovement with the Brewers to his attempts at contraction this man reaks of impropriety. It is ironic that the first commisioner of baseball was hired to restore the public trust in the game after the famous Black Sox scandal. I would say that Selig is doing anything but instilling confidence in the game.

I have no problem with Bud working on the "competitive balance" of the game. Whether you agree with that or not, he is entitled to set the agenda of baseball as the commish. The problem I have is that he cares little about competitve balance and is merely using it to increase his power. If he truly cared about competitive balance, he would have insisted on a minimum payroll in the last labor agreement. That was missing for some odd reason. Not satisified with being able to fleece the Yankees as a result of that agreement, Bud e has now taken to willy nilly manipulating the system to play favorites. For example, requiring the Yankees to add players to the Boone trade when Boston did not and becoming involved with this A-Rod deal.

If this were all not bad enough, Bud is using a tool to mask his impartiality. That tool is "Yankee Hating." Competitive balance is all well and good as long as it hurts the Yankees. Fixing the outcome of the season a problem. . NO, not as long as it hurts the Yankees. In short, competitive balance= defeating the Yankees. I just think this is shortsighted for non-Yankee fans to falll for this. The power to manipulate the game that Bud acquires now can quickly be turned on other teams and owners. I wonder if it will be so much fun then.

Bud must go and go quickly. That is not likely to happen. Bud is drunk on power and is doing whatever he can to acquire more and more. This guy is so power drunk he believes he is above the law. In my opinion fixing the competition by using the power of the commisioner's office is as bad as the players fixing the games.

[hardrain]

first i want to apologize for starting a new thread if I should have posted my anti-Bud rant in another thread -- but there is so much Selig does wrong that it pertains to many discussions.

Your points are well taken, jpao89. There are so many indiscretions, so many dishonors; we will never run out of room chronicling them.

[aeromac76]

Originally posted by jpao89


Holy Echo Chamber Bat Man!!! I just posted this in the thread on the A-Rod deal.

I was reading that Bud is selling the Brewers. At first glance it would seem like he is selling to clear up the apparent conflict of interest in response to the criticism that has long been levelled at him. Instead, Bud is selling because the heat is on. The state and local authorities are conducting an investigation as to why the Brewers promised increased payroll if they got a new stadium (publicly funded) and despite that promise have reduced the payroll.

Putting aside whether Bud has or has not engaged in wrongdoing, the appearance of impropriety is staggering. From his involovement with the Brewers to his attempts at contraction this man reaks of impropriety. It is ironic that the first commisioner of baseball was hired to restore the public trust in the game after the famous Black Sox scandal. I would say that Selig is doing anything but instilling confidence in the game.

I have no problem with Bud working on the "competitive balance" of the game. Whether you agree with that or not, he is entitled to set the agenda of baseball as the commish. The problem I have is that he cares little about competitve balance and is merely using it to increase his power. If he truly cared about competitive balance, he would have insisted on a minimum payroll in the last labor agreement. That was missing for some odd reason. Not satisified with being able to fleece the Yankees as a result of that agreement, Bud e has now taken to willy nilly manipulating the system to play favorites. For example, requiring the Yankees to add players to the Boone trade when Boston did not and becoming involved with this A-Rod deal.

If this were all not bad enough, Bud is using a tool to mask his impartiality. That tool is "Yankee Hating." Competitive balance is all well and good as long as it hurts the Yankees. Fixing the outcome of the season a problem. . NO, not as long as it hurts the Yankees. In short, competitive balance= defeating the Yankees. I just think this is shortsighted for non-Yankee fans to falll for this. The power to manipulate the game that Bud acquires now can quickly be turned on other teams and owners. I wonder if it will be so much fun then.

Bud must go and go quickly. That is not likely to happen. Bud is drunk on power and is doing whatever he can to acquire more and more. This guy is so power drunk he believes he is above the law. In my opinion fixing the competition by using the power of the commisioner's office is as bad as the players fixing the games.

Know the best point you made??
The point about everyone seeing it now as a Yankee defeating tool. Everyone loves the idea of the Yankees failing. Great for everyone but the Yankees and their fans.

But then it comes into play. The Yankees are baseball's money maker. All that revenue sharing and luxury tax money, try finding it when the Yankees go south.

Also, everyone is amused he targets the Yanekes saying they deserve it, blinded by their jealousy.
But what about other teams that rise? Will they become victims too? It is a very dangerous precedent. The Red Sox want to beat the Yankees, so let them try. Let them wheel and deal and play tough ball. But for the commisioner to toss the rulebook out the window and help them mkake personell moves?? Come on.. And it won't stop there. If Selig is capable of helping his buddies to beat someone he does not like, then he will be capable of hurting others in the sport as well. Of course, as long as it only hurts the Yankees, it is fine. But watch what happens as others fall victim...