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"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again." James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams (1989)
The next commissioner of baseball has some deep thinking to do about complex and divisive issues. These may or may not be issues that the incumbent has been mishandling, but it is clear that Mr. Bud Selig is not capable of such high level thought processes as are required of the position. He is unpopular with the players and has made some dunderheaded decisions that have splintered his fan-based loyalty. (See: MLB All-Star Game.) Nor is he especially non-partisan; he does own a team. And he is 81. While 80 may be the new 70, there isn't much swag in either number.
In other words, his days as Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball are numbered. He is walking on air with no firm foundation for the steps ahead of him.
One doesn’t need to ask The Amazing Kreskin what is coming. The game needs not an “owners’ lackey;" it needs an impartial statesman on the order of Bowie Kuhn (or perhaps Bob Costas) to right the ship and set the course of MLB for the new millennium.
That is a tall order, but we happen to have an ex-politician, ex-baseball man in semi-retirement.
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The next commissioner of baseball has some deep thinking to do about complex and divisive issues. These may or may not be issues that the incumbent has been mishandling, but it is clear that Mr. Bud Selig is not capable of such high level thought processes as are required of the position. He is unpopular with the players and has made some dunderheaded decisions that have splintered his fan-based loyalty. (See: MLB All-Star Game.) Nor is he especially non-partisan; he does own a team. And he is 81. While 80 may be the new 70, there isn't much swag in either number.
In other words, his days as Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball are numbered. He is walking on air with no firm foundation for the steps ahead of him.
One doesn’t need to ask The Amazing Kreskin what is coming. The game needs not an “owners’ lackey;" it needs an impartial statesman on the order of Bowie Kuhn (or perhaps Bob Costas) to right the ship and set the course of MLB for the new millennium.
That is a tall order, but we happen to have an ex-politician, ex-baseball man in semi-retirement.
Read more...
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