Saturday, August 4, 2007

Why Bud Selig sucks

I think it's good to be reminded from time to time why Bud Selig has done such a bad job as baseball commissioner.

1) He was commissioner during the baseball strike which served no purpose.

2) The All Star Game tie.

3) The All Star Game "now counts." It seems he didn't understand that the All-Star game always counted to baseball fans. The problem with the All-Star game wasn't that it didn't matter, but that he showed he really wasn't a baseball fan by allowing the All Star game to end in a tie. (Another sign he's not a baseball fan -- his "herculean" effort to watch Barry Bonds hit the record-tying home run. I mean, he's not even watching every game. He took time off for the Hall of Fame induction and another day off for no particular reason.)

4) Interleague play. Since teams aren't playing each team evenly, this really isn't fair. If baseball would want to follow the NFL's lead (like it did in adopting interleague play/wild card) they would rotate the teams that play in each city and give up the need to keep the rivalry games. Sure, rivalry games bring big crowds, but it's not worth the cost of the integrity of the schedule. If the integrity of the schedule didn't matter, then I'd rather see the Red Sox play the Yankees about 40 times per year.

5) Uneven divisions. Why does the NL Central have 6 teams while the AL West has only 4? The Milwaukee Brewers, Selig's former team, had to move to the NL where they "traditionally" played? Why wasn't this addressed prior to expansion? I guess this fits Selig's thought process of the schedule not really meaning anything.

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