Word: seliger
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...survivors on the field as their moments were announced. It was also tonic to see the game's medieval power and glamour recognized. Five of the ten moments took place more than a half-century ago. Baseball, more than any other sport, is its past. Commissioner Bud Selig wanted the fans to remember this - and not the more recent stains on the game - when he first announced that the Memorable Moments event would be part of a World Series many feared would not take place...
...been a bad year to be Bud. Selig's annus horribilis began immediately following last year's World Series, when he announced plans to eliminate several teams even as the newly-crowned Diamondbacks were still unlacing their grass-stained shoes. Then, midway through the 2002 season, Selig made the disastrous decision to call the All-Star Game, which was tied in the 11th inning, because both teams had run out of pitchers. He was booed in Milwaukee, where he was once a hero (for recruiting the Brewers away from Seattle). Fans were outraged, call-in radio shows were...
...Things have not always been so exciting for Selig; aside from his role in the Brewers move, his career in baseball was fairly unremarkable until the early 1990s. That's when Selig led the movement to oust then-commissioner Fay Vincent, whom Selig, and others decried as too deferential to the players. In 1992, Selig replaced Vincent for a six-year temporary term, and in 1998 he was officially elected commissioner...
...fans, Selig's last-minute attempts this week to avoid baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972 have only added to his demerits. While polls show the majority of Americans back the owners on this year's most contentious points - revenue sharing and luxury tax - that goodwill does not spill over to the commissioner, who's widely seen as not taking an active enough role in the talks. His Wednesday arrival in New York, where players' and owners' representatives had been hunkered down for days, didn't impress players either. "I'm very grateful and appreciative that the commissioner...
...Even while labor negotiations were still grinding away in New York, the press was letting Selig have it: AP sports columnist Steve Wilstein called him "the harbinger of doom," and Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette wrote a scathing bit about "the most inept commissioner in the history of professional sports." Unfortunately for Bud, even Friday's happy ending probably won't do much to convence anyone otherwise...