Looks like Gee Dubya Boosh got to be baseball commish after all

[KamaAina]

this "Bud Selig" is obviously a character he made up; note the name's resemblance to Woody Allen's "Zelig".

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-wssuspendedgamefive102708&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

This World Series is unsalvageable. It is a disaster borne of people who think cowbells and haircuts make them fans, owners who are so greedy that they accept late-October baseball and late-evening start times, and a commissioner who unilaterally changes a rule while he’s carrying the book in his left hand....

Seriously, in the 20 minutes commissioner Bud Selig addressed postponing Game 5, he spent as much time talking about weather forecasters as he did the fact that he was prepared, on the fly, to change a well-hewn rule. While Selig was interested in informing the public that the three weather services MLB contacted said the rain would abate, everyone wondered how he planned to handle the situation had Carlos Pena not driven in B.J. Upton in the sixth inning with the Rays' tying run....

"It's not a way to end a World Series," Selig said. "And I think there's enough, and I have enough authority here, frankly, so that I think I'm not only on solid ground, I'm on very solid ground."

It would have been the right call, of course, though it sets a dangerous precedent – just how far does the commissioner's in-the-best-interests-of-baseball clause go? – and was made even shadier by the fact that nobody but the brass seemed to know. Fans were clueless, as were the players, who wanted no part of it.

Unilaterally changing a rule? "I have enough authority here"? Is this the former owner of the Brewers -- or of the Texas Rangers? Seriously, have you ever seen the two of them in the same place at the same time? :tinfoilhat:

[Initech]

1. Selig is the worst thing to happen to MLB in its history.

Really... the guy couldn't be any more fucking clueless than he already is. He should work for Dumbass.

[KamaAina]

2. Worse than the Black Sox? The color bar? The 1994 strike?

That's pretty bad!

[KitchenWitch]

3. Well, he IS the worst baseball commissioner ever.

[KamaAina]

4. Somewhere Happy Chandler is smiling

the monkey's finally off his back.

[Initech]

5. Both of those things are pretty horrible.

And say what you want about Pete Rose too.

But really the guy is fucking clueless. Under his watch, it seems that the playoffs are being rigged in the same way David Stern rigs the NBA finals. It's like the only two teams that have mattered since the wild card was imposed are the Yankees and Red Sox and everyone else is a small market team. Look at the NFL - everyone knows the Colts, the Patriots, the Saints, the Chargers, the Eagles, the Raiders, the Redskins, the Cowboys, and so on. You know who Payton Manning is and you know who Reggie Bush, Tony Romo, Tom Brady, Ladamian Tomlinson, and so on are. With the MLB, and I'm using this series as an example - could you name two Rays or Phillies players before the series? I bet not.

[KamaAina]

6. Shane Victorino and Jimmy Rollins

Victorino is a Maui native and has a fan base, complete with local news coverage, out here where there isn't even a minor league team any more. Throw in Chase Utley for good measure.

I'm still not sure I can name any players on the AL team except for Eva Longoria, who I've been following since I used to watch "Desperate Housewives". :-)