What's up with Bud Selig and tie baseball games? What is this... soccer?
He keeps his job because the owners hire the commissioner and they don't care that he's an incompetent boob because he's one of them. At least he doesn't have free reign, 'cause if he did we'd have no Nationals and no Twins (and his Brewers would have a monopoly on baseball in that region) and no other small-market teams. Wasn't that his proposed solution to the gap: just get rid of the small market teams (then the big market teams wouldn't have to pay a luxury tax or share revenue)! Here's a better solution: why don't you make the small market teams take their revenue sharing and put it back into the team (player payroll or development) rather than padding their pockets. Oh, but that wouldn't be good for the owners and Bud Selig is an owner, even if that's not official.
When are we going to stop having commissioners who know nothing about the sport they lead? Has Selig ever touched a baseball? Has Bettman ever put on ice skates? Has David Stern ever shot a basketball at anything other than a peach basket?
If I had my way, all professional sports teams would be owned by the local fan base (either through a municipality or shares of stock). Then we wouldn't have teams moving all the time in search of more money and we certainly wouldn't have teams re-naming themselves after their enemy neighbors who happen to have a slightly bigger market and more people of the same ethnicity as the owner when the owner could have just as easily purchased the team in that neighboring city rather than raping the local fans because their team was cheaper.
Screw Butt Selig, screw FArte Moreno, and praise be to Henry & Susan Samueli.
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