FIRST TIER SPORTS
How bad is Bud Selig for baseball? Let me count the ways.
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2. Pete Rose. While dozens of players either admit to or are tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and are still allowed to play, Pete Rose is still banned from baseball for "shaming the game".
3. Players collusion. From 1985-1987 Bud Selig the owner and other team owners were busted for driving down player salaries. Most notably Milwaukee Brewers great and hall of famer Paul Molitor's. They later had to pay $280 million in damages.
4. Steroids. He had ample proof of steroid abuse in his league for more than 10 years and chose not to stop it.
5. Calling the 2002 All star game a tie. He was booed in his hometown of Milwaukee for calling the game a tie. Instead of fixing the problem by expanding the rosters he:
6. Starting making the All star game "meaningful". By making the All star game decide who has home field advantage he thought that it would bring excitement to the game. TV ratings for the game then proceeded to fall.
7. 1994 strike. His horrible relationship with Donald Fehr due to the players collusion he was involved in was the main reason for the players strike of 1994.
8. No playoffs for the 1994 season. As a result of the strike baseball became the first major sport ever in America to lose it's entire postseason to a strike.
9. Inter-league play. Another ploy to bring "excitement" to the game, TV ratings and attendance have both gone down.
10. Barry Bonds. He created an environment were players like Bonds would flourish, when Bonds flourished he put his hands in his pockets and shrugged his shoulders.
11. 2002's near work stoppage. In '02 he barely escaped another work stoppage.
12. Kicking Fay Vincent out of office. By being the leader of a group of owners to remove Fay Vincent of his duties for speaking out against the owners about the collusion charges, Selig then was appointed commissioner.
13. Torpedoing the Montreal Expos. Between the 1994 strike and his numerous attempts to contract the Expos, he gave them little chance to succeed. They later were run by MLB and moved to Washington DC.
-JJ Robichaud
2. Pete Rose. While dozens of players either admit to or are tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and are still allowed to play, Pete Rose is still banned from baseball for "shaming the game".
3. Players collusion. From 1985-1987 Bud Selig the owner and other team owners were busted for driving down player salaries. Most notably Milwaukee Brewers great and hall of famer Paul Molitor's. They later had to pay $280 million in damages.
4. Steroids. He had ample proof of steroid abuse in his league for more than 10 years and chose not to stop it.
5. Calling the 2002 All star game a tie. He was booed in his hometown of Milwaukee for calling the game a tie. Instead of fixing the problem by expanding the rosters he:
6. Starting making the All star game "meaningful". By making the All star game decide who has home field advantage he thought that it would bring excitement to the game. TV ratings for the game then proceeded to fall.
7. 1994 strike. His horrible relationship with Donald Fehr due to the players collusion he was involved in was the main reason for the players strike of 1994.
8. No playoffs for the 1994 season. As a result of the strike baseball became the first major sport ever in America to lose it's entire postseason to a strike.
9. Inter-league play. Another ploy to bring "excitement" to the game, TV ratings and attendance have both gone down.
10. Barry Bonds. He created an environment were players like Bonds would flourish, when Bonds flourished he put his hands in his pockets and shrugged his shoulders.
11. 2002's near work stoppage. In '02 he barely escaped another work stoppage.
12. Kicking Fay Vincent out of office. By being the leader of a group of owners to remove Fay Vincent of his duties for speaking out against the owners about the collusion charges, Selig then was appointed commissioner.
13. Torpedoing the Montreal Expos. Between the 1994 strike and his numerous attempts to contract the Expos, he gave them little chance to succeed. They later were run by MLB and moved to Washington DC.
-JJ Robichaud
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