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...opening game could begin on a Wednesday instead of the usual Saturday start. The rationale is simple: More people are home watching prime-time television during the week, so why not play five of a possible seven games, instead of just three, on those days? "All the commissioner [Bud Selig] wants is to make sure baseball is viewed by as many people as possible," says Jimmie Lee Solomon, the executive vice president of baseball operations for Major League Baseball...
...Perhaps as a reward for this revenue-producing strategy, the hardball gods stuck it to Selig by having teams that play in two of the coldest major league cities, Denver and Boston, advance to a Series that could creep into November. A seventh game, if necessary, would be played on November 1 at Boston's Fenway Park...
...with: what if we’re living the wrong life, or loving the wrong people?” “Donnie Darko” self-reflexively opens this Halloween, at the Zero Arrow Theatre, and will run through Nov. 18th. —Staff writer John D. Selig can be reached at jdselig@fas.harvard.edu...
...controversy has been long brewing. Barry Bonds will surely overtake Hank Aaron's cherished record of 755 career home runs, but he can't shake the suspicion that he's used anabolic steroids to juice up his game. Commissioner Bud Selig, a close friend of Aaron's, has glumly agreed to sit in the stands at Bonds' games. Selig's secret wish: that Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees star with a clean rep and 498 homers, could miraculously hit 258 more before Bonds gets his three...
That doesn’t mean you postpone the game, though! Remember when MLB commissioner Bud Selig called off the 2002 All-Star Game after 11 innings because no pitchers were left but the current ones and those hurlers had already logged two innings? Is there anyone breathing who still thinks that was a good idea? If you’re going to be a coward about protecting Vicente Padilla’s arm, okay, but at least let Robin Ventura or Junior Spivey throw an inning. Do anything but call off the game...