Commissioner of Baseball- Allan “Bud” Selig 78 today

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Allan “Bud” Selig, the 9th Commissioner of Baseball turns 78 today. There are those who think that Selig is the greatest commissioner that baseball has ever had. There are those who think he is a disaster. I am among the later group. Of course someday he will be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He’s the owners boy. They have always seen that he is taken care of.

Ten Reasons I am not a fan of Bud Selig in no order

1-2002 All-Star Game. Tied up, the teams are out of pitchers. After much thought Bud calls it a game. Baseball games do not end in ties. This incident made him look like a total idiot.

2. After the above fiasco he decides-the league that wins the All-Star Game-their team will have home field advantage in the World Series. There was nothing wrong in alternating years the way it was always done.

3. The 1994 baseball strike -which resulted in the first World Series not played since 1904. A real leader would have brought both sides together and settled this. I know people who loved baseball that were so turned off by this that even 18 years later they still haven’t come back to the sport. Way to go Bud.

4. The dragging of the feet over the steroid issue. Everyone in baseball and even the fans knew that these men were juicing. You could not only tell by looking at them but look at the home run totals. No one came close to the Maris 61 in 61 then all the sudden Sosa, McGwire and Bonds are shattering it with ease. It wasn’t something in the water. The owners and management under the leadership of Allan Selig turned their heads and held their noses. Why? Because home runs brought people into the ballpark. Only when it started to become a joke did our Bud spring into action.

5.Moving Houston to the American League next season. The Astros have been in the National League for 50 years. Selig used to own the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers were an American League team moved to the National League in the late 90’s. They were the logical choice. Bud Selig grew up in Milwaukee, a Milwaukee Braves-National League fan. The Brewers should have been the team going back, not the Houston Astros.

 

6.Baseball expands -Tampa Bay and Arizona. There were more than enough teams, but in a money grab they add two more.

7-Expanding the playoffs this season

8. Really -two wildcard teams play each other in a one game winner moves on-loser goes home deal?

9-Interleague Play. Bad idea that continues.

10- The image. I would say I am pretty sure if I were sitting next to Bud Selig at a ballgame, that I’d like the guy. He seems like a well meaning man. A decent fellow. I do not for the life of me understand why major league baseball chose this man to run their company. { Well I do know why- he is a former owner, he looks after their interests, he’s their ‘boy”} Image sometimes is hard to overcome. Bud Selig looks and acts like a man without a clue. The NBA has David Stern. Like him or not-David Stern looks like he knows what’s going on.  Roger Godell [except for that hugging of the draft choices at the NFL draft} looks like he has a clue. Bud Selig may not be clueless but he looks clueless. Image becomes reality.

In 1992 Selig replaced Faye Vincent who the owners thought was getting too big for his britches. Selig was named Acting-Commissioner. It was supposed to be a short term deal. 20 years later he is still there.  Amazing.

 

6 responses to “Commissioner of Baseball- Allan “Bud” Selig 78 today”

  1. well thought out points and i cannot say that i disagree with them. he is obviously doing something correct as baseball owners keep him employed; seems to be one case where doing nothing has been a good plan.

    • he’s the owners boy..why would they fire the perfect stooge? .. and baseball is like malaria..it just keeps coming back… and i think the recent problems with concussions in football and hockey..will mean good things for baseball.. baseball lost athletes in the past 30 years..maybe some kids at a young age will steer toward a game where you rarely hear of concussions…

    • getting hit by a pitch seems to be the most serious thing in baseball..dickie thon was on his way to a hall of fame career…sad story

  3. agreed. baseball has some of the more freakish injuries – vince coleman versus the tarp machine, dion james separated shoulder waving a runner home, jason kendall running down the line, but usually do not see knee injuries etc. i can remember craig biggio getting waxed in a double play that blew out his knee.
    most of the baseball stuff is shoulder/elbow – rotator cuff or tommy john.

    • and most baseball injuries..aren’t head injuries… sandy koufax is in his mid 70s and last week at the hall of fame looked as fit as a fiddle even though his career was cut short

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