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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
According to the Iron Economist…“Selig, number one. Landis, number two. Eckert…ptooey!”
Bud loves baseball as much as anyone I’ve ever met. . . . Bud is also tenacious. Without his tenacity, Milwaukee would never have gotten back a major league team. And without his tenacity, the owners may have self-destructed in the early 1990s as they bitterly fought over revenue sharing. At the time, and still today, Bud spends many of his waking hours talking to the owners about how they need to cooperate with each other and behave as partners. He has the uncanny ability to make just about everyone he talks to believe that he is on their side. Baseball’s ownership always has been plagued by fractiousness. Bud has used his superlative social skills, intelligence and energy to hold baseball’s barons together. The owners recognize that Bud has performed this vital function, and even though some may resent occasionally his methods or the outcome, they are afraid of what would happen without him.
Repoz
Posted: February 28, 2006 at 02:29 PM | 12 comment(s)
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1. CraigK Posted: February 28, 2006 at 02:40 PM (#1877900)*BLAM*
Selig sounds just like Johnson. Johnson was able to convince the South he hated blacks while convincing Northern Senators he wanted to change the South. That and about a million other whoppers.
Later,
H3
Will the DH rule ever become universal?
Do we need more realignment?
Will there be another expansion in the next 20 years?
Can MLB organize an equivalent to NFL Europe (not necessarily in Europe)? Ought it to?
"Let me tell ya, I don't normally make these sort of allowances, but since you seem like a real stand up kind of guy, heck, I'd go so far as to say that even though I don't really know you, you're a great guy, someone I could see being friends with, both you and your charming wife, because I really genuinely like you, I can write you up a really good deal, something that will really knock your socks off and have you smiling on your way out the door, I can write it up and take it back and tell the manager that I'll personally vouche for you, that he really should give it the okay because you're genuinely the salt of the earth, nobody better, so just let me take this back to the manager... Just kidding! I AM the manager! You, my friend are 100% approved! Just sign here on the dotted line..."
selig: great, or the GREATEST commissioner?
the intent behind the question gives you my feelings on selig as commissioner.
It's the 10% that may draw all the heat here -- is Selig the best commissioner? Even here, though, I understand Zimbalist's point; I believe he was speaking in terms of how well Selig served MLB, not whether he was the best commissioner from the fans standpoint.
-Bri
On "ranking" the commissioners...
I can find faults in all of them. In the case of Selig, however, I find more pluses than minuses.
Let's not confuse the fact that the commissioner's position is to serve the owners, and in that sense, there is self-interest involved in the decision making process that can run counter to what the fans may want. All that said, I find Selig an interesting subject. No one has been able to corral the owners together in the way that Selig has. While he may come across flat in the media, he's extremely adept at communication amongst the ownership ranks and building consensus.
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