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Selig extended

NYT article says Selig's contract extended until 2012.  http://tinyurl.com/2f79a8

And here's the bit that will warm every fan's heart--

"Selig, who pushed for interleague play and wild cards in the postseason, predicted more change over the next five years.

'By the time I leave, you won't recognize the sport,' he said."

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wont recognize it...
like americans and soccer?

or

like the Rays (left out the D part woohoo first time) won the WS kinda wont recognize it

.500 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jan 17, 2008 5:28 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Every Day
Selig gets up and goes to the office, he is extended.
'At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.' Erk Russell / Georgia Southern

by Ed Coffin on Jan 17, 2008 5:42 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Heh
 
hurlerhurley has to drink a 6 pack just to have one for each of his usernames.

by t ball on Jan 17, 2008 7:18 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

sellick
going to anyone's office is a put down on senior Americans.

JMO

by Trosey on Jan 17, 2008 6:17 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Just another thing on the long list of things
that Major League Baseball has gotten wrong of late.

Unless that "extenson" thing means he'll be hung by his toes until 2012...

"The most important things in life are the things that are the least important" - Yogi Berra

by lonestarJon on Jan 17, 2008 6:52 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Potential Baseball Changes
With Selig at the helm for another 4 years, do you guys think that baseball could possibly introduce draft pick trading?  They already started broadcasting the baseball draft, which significantly increased the amount of time the draft takes.  This would, however, do away with the bottom half of the league getting 1st round draft pick protection, though.  Just a thought.
baseBALLIN!

by kevzta on Jan 17, 2008 7:43 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I hope so
Not being able to trade picks is stupid. It hurts the teams it's supposed to help, imo. And it's obviously not producing the effect it was supposed, i.e. making it so the players had less leverage and would therefore be easier for the bad teams to sign. (See: Porcello, Rick.)

Don't know why you'd have to get rid of top-15 protected picks to accomplish it, though.

More likely they'd just do away with the whole archaic compensatory draft pick thing all together.

"God plays by his own rules, folks. And HGH is f***ing legal as hell up in heaven." -Andy Pettitte

by thedirkatron on Jan 17, 2008 9:01 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

protected
couldnt sign type A's if u had already traded your pick away...
.500 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jan 17, 2008 9:12 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Naw
The union would NEVER agree to that. Anything that prohibits teams from signing their players, they'd have a MAJOR problem with.

I think you'd probably have to institute something similar to the NBA though, where you can't trade consecutive first round picks or something.

I'd be in favor of just saying you could only trade picks for picks, and you couldn't trade picks for any draft other than the current one.

So you couldn't have a team going all in and trading their '08, '09 and '10 first rounders for Phil Plantier or something like that.  

"God plays by his own rules, folks. And HGH is f***ing legal as hell up in heaven." -Andy Pettitte

by thedirkatron on Jan 18, 2008 2:56 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I have the same view with Selig...
and baseball as I do with Congress and baseball...stay the fuck out of my national pastime.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jan 17, 2008 8:46 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

¡Vámanos!
LSB : Trolls :: Rangers : 4th OF'ers

by Chase Irwin on Jan 17, 2008 11:22 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

This is an outrage, in my opinion
Any reputable corporation would oust a CEO engaged in a similar scandal, yet this man gets a unanimous vote of confidence by its board of directors?  Of course, this is just another case of the owners protecting their own.  Keeping him in office is like having Nixon prosecuting Watergate.  Disgraceful.

If Selig had any integrity, or really, balls, then he would've resigned last month.  I'm amazed at the lack of outrage and how few people are calling for his head.  Oh, and Fehr should resign, too.  However, the players would never rise up against the man who has coddled them.  What they don't realize is that Fehr's coddling has damaged the game and its reputation.  Someone needs to come in and clean house.

"Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic." -- Alex Rodriguez on the benefits of seeing a, well, therapist

by Joseph Mama on Jan 18, 2008 9:20 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

LOL
Fehr should resign.  That's funny.

Players are being paid like never before, fans are streaming through the gates, the union wins all confrontations.

And Fehr should resign.

The game, and it's reputation aren't Fehr's problem.  Making sure the players get top notch pay and benefits are.  He is doing a great job.

All this wailing, and gnashing of teeth of how steroids have ruined the game doesn't match up with the reality.  Fans still come to games in record numbers, and the TV contracts keep growing.

I don't see any evidence that Steroids have ruined the game.  Honestly, it appears Steroids and PEDs have vaulted the game to a higher level of popularity than before.

"We should have bombed it (Auschwitz)"-President Bush

by DJCahill on Jan 18, 2008 9:49 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I did not necessarily suggest that
steriods have ruined the game.  I beleive that there is an accountability problem with the leaders of MLB and MLBPA that needs to be addressed.

It's galling enough that Bud didn't assume the blame three years ago, five years ago, 10 years ago, 13 years ago. But in one of his defining moments in office, the day that shamed him permanently as the baseball boss who let steroids smear the sport forever, Selig had the audacity to take credit for what actually was his complicit role in allowing juicers to kick-start a dying industry. The same man who enabled the Steroids Era now is claiming he's a hero.

So why didn't he launch an investigation when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were playing Homerun  Derby in 1998? The answer, of course, is that power surges were bringing back fans and making money for the owners. And rather than order a steroids probe, it was much more convenient for Selig, as an agent of the owners, to turn his head.

Fehr faces a complicated task.. On one hand he must display a genuine desire to rectify the steroids and HGH problem in baseball. He must also accept responsibility for the detrimental consequences of the players association's longstanding unwillingness to commit to comprehensive drug testing.

"Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic." -- Alex Rodriguez on the benefits of seeing a, well, therapist

by Joseph Mama on Jan 18, 2008 11:10 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

baseball union
I 've read that baseball has the lowest revenue sharing of all the major 4 sports so while there are big contracts most of the billions in revenue go to the owners. That's the reason I believe Seling got an extension the owners are not hurting as much as people believe their actually winning. It's all perception and the owners like it just fine.

by 83ranger on Jan 18, 2008 1:40 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Revenue Sharing
was largely put in place for competitive balance purposes.  However, it was never mandated that the smaller markets owners - who receive the rev share dollars - were required to invest revenue sharing dollars back into payroll or scouting / player development.  The owners can essentially put that money back in their pockets.
"Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic." -- Alex Rodriguez on the benefits of seeing a, well, therapist

by Joseph Mama on Jan 18, 2008 2:36 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

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