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...rights and such. The Twins also have an owner, billionaire banker Carl Pohlad, who has been unwilling to invest in big salaries. "It makes no sense for Major League Baseball to be in markets that generate insufficient local revenues to justify the investment in the franchise," said commissioner Bud Selig. Minnesota brings in $25 million locally, near the bottom. The league's proposed solution to this Twins shortfall: hand Pohlad (and the other loser) from $125 million to $150 million to close up shop...
...Selig's timing of the announcement--hours before baseball's labor contract expired and two days after the finish of a great World Series--infuriated the players' union, which viewed it as a hardball bargaining tactic. The league is desperate for some kind of salary cap, like that of the NFL and the NBA, because the owners are unable to contain themselves. Witness Texas Rangers boss Tom Hicks' signing Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year contract worth $252 million. Union president Donald Fehr issued a terse denunciation and then filed a grievance. Said former commissioner Fay Vincent: "Once again...
...believe we are a social institution,” said baseball commissioner Bud Selig. “We have a lot of responsibilities, but above all, we have a responsibility to act in a manner befitting a social institution...
...rumored that Dick Cheney is the stealth President, but is it possible that the actual President has his own clandestine occupation? Could he be the stealth baseball commissioner? While Bud Selig, commissioner in fact, has been relegated to mutterances about (but not solving) labor disputes, Dubya's been promoting the game nationwide, grabbing flashbulbs and credit for the first pitch at the Brewers' new stadium, top, while Selig--former team owner--lobbed his pitch in anonymity and had to vie for press by dedicating two statues out front. Further evidence...
...directs a timeless fable that takes place in Detroit in the years of the Yankee dynasty. The disappearance of a magical bat, symbolic of the Tigers' ability to hit in previous years, accompanies skyrocketing salaries in Major League Baseball. Chow Yun Fat masterfully portrays the part of Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner who is unable to use the sweeping powers the owners granted him to remedy the salary situation...