Comments on: Bud made almost as much as the entire Devil Rays team

By: Crosetti

Crosetti — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:40:06 +0000

No way… Main officer in baseball shouldn´t make more than the president of the whole United States.

¡Not so fast, Bud! You never, ever would a better job nor handle such true responsabilities.

The commissioner´s salary is a steal legalized.

By the way, ¿who aproves such raises?

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:43:40 +0000

Selig has been tooting his horn for years about the healthy state of baseball economically.
This will be one year when he’ll swallow hard as he sees so many empty seats in so many ballparks.

By: Old(grumpy, rude and mean)YanksFan

Old(grumpy, rude and mean)YanksFan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:30:36 +0000

This year and next, there will be TONS of salary dumps. We already spent a fortune this year. We should save EVERY PENNY, as there are bargain basement deals coming.

While we got some primo players, we paid top dollar for all of them (CC, Tex, AJ). This will tie up payroll for years to come. Meanwhile, other teams are getting steals, which will save them payroll for years to come. Giambi for $5m? Dunn will go for $0.60 on the dollar. Players will be begging for jobs next year.

We should NOT spend any more money.

By: Art Vandelay

Art Vandelay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:21:34 +0000

I have mixed feelings about interleague (Mets/Yankees is fun for the fans) but (Royals/Nationals) ain’t gonna light the world on fire. But BS has avoided a work stoppage, made the baseball socialists happy with some revenue sharing, and has avoided a work stoppage after 1994. The 1994 strike (which probably cost us a World Series berth) has caused more harm to the game than the whole steroid thing. Fans have never returned to baseball because of the ’95 strike. Baseball is a billion dollar business and Selig, who’s basically the game’s CEO is compensated correctly based on market conditions.

By: 86w183

86w183 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:38:47 +0000

I also think it would be a mistake to move anyone in the Nady/Swisher/Gardner/Melky group unless it was for an established long term answer to an OF spot. Otherwise let the depth lead to competition for playing time and see what happens.

Some here have a really high opinion of DeJesus, but I see him as Johnny Damon lite.

I do think signing Juan Cruz makes a lot of sense… low risk potentially great reward. He just turned 30 and has great stuff. And it would increase the inventory of arms that could be packaged for an OF upgrade

By: Old(grumpy, rude and mean)YanksFan

Old(grumpy, rude and mean)YanksFan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:18:57 +0000

Doreen – ABSOLUTELY. Remember when Colorado had like 6 off days between series? The PS just drags now. The very worst decision he had even made.

By: Doreen

Doreen — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:55:43 +0000

O(g,r&m)YF -

You’re preaching to the choir here. Bud Selig makes no sense most of the time.

I think it’s devastating to draw out the playoffs with off-days. It’s bad enough that people have virtually zero attention span; it’s bad enough the season itself is sooooo long (good & bad to that); it’s bad enough the games are on so late at night on the east coast that most young fans can’t stay up for the ends of games. Put dead time in there, and there will be people who forget it’s even on!

By: Espresso

Espresso — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:52:33 +0000

I’m not a Selig fan. When he does do something it only seems to hurt the game. Business is business so I can live with those decisions. What really gets under my skin is fining people and suspensions for hitting batters and retaliating. I know no one wants to see people get hurt, but its part of the game, it has a rule, in the game, to deal with it. I can see action for deliberately hitting some one in the head, but buzzing people and brush backs are part of the excitement.

Pitchers need to be able to intimidate hitters and I think they have been handcuffed during Selig’s tenure. There is not enough data yet to sort out the steroids effect on power numbers but I would not be surprised to learn that some (however small) part is due to over protecting batters.

Similarly I was pretty PO’d about the roughing the passer call in the SB last night.

By: Yankee Trader

Yankee Trader — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:34:59 +0000

GB7 & Steve B

Thanks. New post BTW.

By: Old(grumpy, rude and mean)YanksFan

Old(grumpy, rude and mean)YanksFan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:33:42 +0000

I think Bud is a maroon!
Was he even any good at selling used cars?
Aside from the obvious mistakes Bud had made, my favorite is:

The biggest, most obvious, most aggregious problem with the way MLB works, is the terrible, overly short Division Series. a Five game, win 3 and move on series. Teams battle for 6 months to make the PS, and then can be eliminated too quickly in the DS. This is one of the main reasons why the best team often is not in the WS.

When asked about this a few years ago, but stated the season was already too long, and the Spring and PS were already played in cold weather. Since eliminating regular season games (to accommodate that HUGE number… 2 extra games) would hurt income, Bud said his hands were tied.

So what does the Big Maroon do the next year?

HE ADDS 2 OFF DAYS TO THE PS… KILLING THE CONTINUITY OF THE SERIES, MAKING A LONGER WAIT BETWEEN THE DS AND CS, AND ALLOWS FOR A MORE UNBALANCED SP ALIGNMENT.

So Bud can’t add 2 extra days to play a VERY important 2 extra games, but he can add 2 totally unnecessary OFF-DAYS!