So when Selig steps down - who steps up?
by James Mason on Nov 29, 2009 11:58 AM CST
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Bud Selig will no longer be the commish after 2011. Anyone have a legit candidate to take his place?
Please don't say "Bob Costas" - he's said 1000000000 times he doesn't want to be commish.
Nolan Ryan would make a good commish, doncha think? Hopefully, he's still helping the Rangers win championships then and will be too busy for that BS.
George Will would probably be a good commish too. And he's probably my pick.
And just for fun, who would make the WORST pick for commish (and try to make it baseball related - don't say Oprah or Amademajad (sp?) or something crazy.
Bad commish: Larry Bowa or Chris Spier or Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa etc haha.
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George W. Bush
I think he’d be a good commissioner. I would just like to see someone who’s been part of neither ownership nor labor. Anyway there’s were rumblings about Bush being commissioner before he decided to run for President.
Bush was an owner
owner=ownership
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by FormerLSBUser on Nov 29, 2009 4:51 PM CST up reply actions
Yep
From what I hear he in particular really loves the game. Anyway it would give the poor guy something to do after fucking up the entire country. Maybe some redemption.
by Black Francis on Nov 29, 2009 7:28 PM CST up reply actions
I guess we still can't move on from this can we?
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by Walter Sobchak on Nov 29, 2009 9:39 PM CST up reply actions
Cry me a river.
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by inactive lsb user on Nov 30, 2009 1:36 AM CST up reply actions
I certainly wouldn't mind a commish with a Rangers bias
and I think Bush would be a great commish. I’m pretty sure his dream was always to be baseball commissioner – I bet his people are pulling some strings to get his name thrown in the hat.
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by Cecilio's Guante on Nov 29, 2009 12:10 PM CST reply actions 8 recs
Tom Grieve
Doesn’t give a shit!
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by JakeStrait on Nov 29, 2009 1:45 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Btw the little star thing that pops up when you rec is very very very corny looking.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
I guess dead people don’t count, now that I think about it.
Not as many as Tiger Woods talk ..
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by inactive lsb user on Nov 30, 2009 1:38 AM CST up reply actions
He's the EXPRESS!!!!
What other reasons do you need?
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by LSBUser on Nov 29, 2009 12:33 PM CST up reply actions
Instant respect.
Just ask Robin Ventura.
Seriously, I think Ryan would make a good anything. Kind of like Staubach or Eddie Gaedel.
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by James Mason on Nov 29, 2009 12:37 PM CST up reply actions
I don't know
He did a good job on Wales’ lobotomy.
by Black Francis on Nov 29, 2009 1:25 PM CST up reply actions
I'm guessing you're new here
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by WestTxAg06 on Nov 29, 2009 2:59 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Perhaps I am new *BUT*
‘Frankenstein’ (1933) was however, directed by James Wales and Frankenstein’s monster of course has a lobotomy performed on him because the 2nd scene in the film shows Igor and Doctor Frankenstein robbing graves & stealing brains (shall I go on?) and Igor drops the good brain and replaces it with a bad brain and…
If I don’t get all of your cute little in-jokes and I don’t post something exactly where some dude wants me to post it, I guess you can crucify me if that’s what you people do here to new people who are actually trying to contribute something.
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by James Mason on Nov 29, 2009 4:31 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
He just asked if you were new here...
He didn’t go off on you so just try to stay calm. Go to the search box and type in Josey Wales. Then you will know the horrific truth.
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by boomer1 on Nov 29, 2009 4:44 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
What boomer said
“Wales” has a well-known meaning on here that has nothing to do with Frankenstein (though he probably qualifies as an internet monster of sorts). When you saw Wales and mentioned something else, I figured you had to be new. Welcome aboard, but prepare to be tortured and agonized by the stubbornness and inorexable logic of one Josey Wales.
As for your original post, give me George Will.
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by WestTxAg06 on Nov 29, 2009 5:47 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Dammit
I thought I made a funny comment and it’s now drowned out by Frankenstein? What the hell, man.
by Black Francis on Nov 29, 2009 7:31 PM CST up reply actions
I give you a REC sir..
for knowing who directed Frankenstein’s monster. It’s funny that the Outlaw somehow got caught up in all this…
So that's how Michael Phelps can eat 10,000 calories a day!
Bob Dupuy or Jimmie Lee Solomon
Solomon would be the first African-American to be commissioner of one of the Big 4 so he seems like a great pick.
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by LSBUser on Nov 29, 2009 12:39 PM CST reply actions
Colin Powell
If it didn’t upset his family.
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by Ed Coffin on Nov 29, 2009 3:36 PM CST up reply actions
Somebody
who is as big a stooge for the owners as Selig is. No one else need apply.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
Have you zero ethics?
Christ, ..
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by inactive lsb user on Nov 30, 2009 1:54 AM CST up reply actions
Do you really think
the owners are going to pick someone who isn’t a stooge for the owners? Please.
The guys who put Selig in office are thrilled with the job he did, and would happily take a younger clone.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
That's true
It’s all about the money – hence that’s why Selig was so loved by the owners, the man made the money for ’em.
But aside from the business side of baseball (the real world), I was thinking in my original post of ball the way it SHOULD be in a UTOPIA.
And have some fun with some guys that couldn’t possibly be commissioner (Chris Spier – ha I kill myself.)
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Just like steroids pre-existing Goodell, right?
Concussions, I mean, on and on and on ..
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by inactive lsb user on Nov 30, 2009 1:31 PM CST up reply actions
The commish works for, and is hired by, the owners
So I’m sure they’d want someone who has similar designs as Selig.
However they also need someone with significant baseball cred to try to move past the steroid era. They can’t simply hire an ex owner. President Bush has the credibility, but his hands are too tied to the steroid era for him to even be a consideration.
I think
the owners have moved past the steroid era. After all, steroids helped the game tremendously after the strike, and popularity increased even after all the steroid mess was finally acknowledged by the brain dead fans.
Steroids have had no real ill impact on the game. If folks were so disgusted they stayed away from the parks and stopped watching it on TV, it would have been a real problem for baseball, but there is no evidence they did. Folks like to wring their hands over steroids, but that doesn’t stop them from flooding the gates when their team is playoff bound.
The current economic climate is a bigger problem for the game than steroids ever were.
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Andy from the O's
Billy Beane?
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by FormerLSBUser on Nov 29, 2009 4:53 PM CST reply actions
Billy Beane!
If it isn’t George Will, Bily Beane would be excellent.
BTW when Billy was playing, did anyone have any idea he would have the influence he has now?
Cal or Billy Ripken would also make good commisioners. Well, at least Cal. Billy can be serious but mostly he just likes to be goofy. But the guy is all baseball.
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Beane would just whine how he makes do with 1/4 the resources of the NFL commish
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
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by Brian Thomas on Nov 30, 2009 8:48 PM CST up reply actions
Bunny...
Motherfuckin’ Colvin, son.
by ghostofErikThompson on Dec 2, 2009 2:16 PM CST up reply actions
I'd be okay w/George Will or George Bush, Jr, surprisingly enough...
or I could do it. I won’t be a stooge for the owners. Vote WhipSmart for MLB Commish!
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Will
I have never understood why his name always comes up. He’s a smart guy who writes reasonably well who happens to like baseball. What actual experience does he have running ANY type of organization much less one as huge as MLB? The same goes for Costas.
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by LSBUser on Nov 30, 2009 8:01 PM CST up reply actions
He was actually the commissioner of the Texas-Louisiana League there for a while
I still have a broken bat I got from an Abilene Prairie Dogs game with his name on it.
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I nominate myself
and (to all those owners out there reading this, since you’re the owns who’d be hiring me), I am very much willing to be your stooge.
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Scott Boras!!
He already dominates the game, and he WOULD NOT be a stooge for the owners!!!
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by Dirk Diggler on Nov 30, 2009 9:58 PM CST up reply actions
Me damnit
If you really want to pour you're ten dollar concession stand beer on me, I take that as a compliment.
by miles on Dec 1, 2009 11:32 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
You should do a fanpost on the changes you'd institute if appointed commish
I failed my LSB ethics test.
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That would be phenomenal
Right now, on my list of awesome offseason fanposts, that would rank up near the top with any profanity-laced D.A. Tron tirade.
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Jose Lima
And his wife has to attend games at every ballpark wearing the dress
hey a noob
The author of this fine blog, Adam J. Morris, esq., actually owns that dress and has for some time. So she’d probably have to pry it off of Ben’s cold, dead body to wear it again.
by Black Francis on Dec 2, 2009 6:28 PM CST up reply actions
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