Word: seliger
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Where have you gone, Bud Selig? As players and owners went into extra innings in baseball labor negotiations, the nation turned its lonely eyes to the sport's commissioner, and found - well, very little. Selig was conspicuous in his absence from talks as a strike threatened, and even when he did arrive, two days before the strike deadline, he remained aloof. And so, as the man who very nearly became the only baseball commish to preside over two work stoppages, Bud Selig is our Person of the Week...
Maybe Bud Selig should visit Brooklyn. In the very borough that baseball abandoned during the Eisenhower Administration, Major League Baseball's commissioner would be treated to a nostalgic version of the national pastime. He would see 200 kids lining up early outside a ball park for a $5 bleacher seat despite the hot, sticky Coney Island weather. If he traveled to Memphis, Tenn., he would see families hurrying past downtown landmarks like the Peabody Hotel to get a good seat at AutoZone Park. Outside Chicago, he would see Kane County Cougars players being swarmed by young fans. And in cities...
...Bush took a political lesson from the debacle. He suggested that Communications Director Dan Bartlett dispatch an intern to draw up a case study of how Selig bobbled the matter as an object lesson in what not to do in a crisis...
Many Americans were outraged at the decision by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig to halt the All Star game in the 11th inning with the score tied 7-7. And their number included the First Fan, President George W. Bush. "He thought it was ridiculous," says a senior White House aide of Bush's reaction to the decision to halt play when both teams had run out of pitchers. A former owner of the Texas Rangers, Bush watched the game, although not to the bitter end, since play continued well after his 9:30pm bedtime...
...treated accordingly. Three days before spring training, long after other franchises had organized their teams for the season, Selig finally hired Tavares, general manager Omar Minaya and manager Frank Robinson. Minaya, 42, who signed Sammy Sosa to his first professional contract, is young for the job, full of energy and plans to turn his Expos stint into another G.M. opportunity down the road. Robinson, a Hall of Famer, must truly love the game. He certainly has the players' respect, but hasn't made much headway with Montreal's native language. Robinson wished one of the team's Francophone beat writers...