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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...
...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...
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...