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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...
That alone makes their 2002 season one of the weirdest in baseball history. But it gets more absurd. Assuming the Expos wouldn't exist, baseball commissioner Bud Selig let owner Jeffrey Loria buy the Florida Marlins. When Loria went South, he took with him the Expos' manager, coaching staff, all the team's computers and a complete set of team uniforms--souvenirs of futility. Now the Expos are orphans, literally wards of the baseball state, property of the other 29 owners...
...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...
...WORLD SERIES. If baseball were this great all the time, Bud Selig wouldn't be trying to shrink the league. With Manhattan smoldering, the Yankees bore the city's pain and pride to the Bronx and won three games there, snatching two with midnight dramatics. No sentimental ending, though. The Arizona Diamondbacks' spectacular pitching duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson numbed Yankee bats in Phoenix, while a seventh-game, bottom-of-the-ninth rally provided a classic, and deserved, triumph for the home team...
...Selig, whose family owns the small-market Milwaukee Brewers, tried to narrow the revenue gap by charging rich clubs a tax and redistributing the wealth to the lesser ones. But last week the owners concluded they were throwing good money after bad. They are also worried that rising debt at some clubs could cause them to go bust. By chopping two welfare teams, owners hope to improve the chances for other stragglers...