Comments on: The Tyrannical Reign Of Bud Selig http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html Sat, 25 May 2013 00:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: sarge http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136671 sarge Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:42:15 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136671 Glad to see you back and at it Joe, my only comment is on the financial stability of the Mets and the line that was fed to fans and all that the team was on solid ground.

Just another item to add to the “soiled” legacy of Bud: canceled WS, winner of AS game gets home field advantage in WS, not holding the badly managed teams accountable for the revenue sharing they receive, etc, sheesh when will this man get it.

]]> By: Donal http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136574 Donal Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:44:18 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136574 Its OK. I’ve been ignoring Harry since he tried to accuse me of being a racist. I’m about done with his sock puppet iz as well.

]]> By: Mr North Jersey http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136563 Mr North Jersey Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:32:54 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136563 What is with all the personal attacks?

If you disagree with what he said then state why you do?

]]> By: Harry C http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136559 Harry C Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:19:37 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136559 A puppet…Well you know puppets well. The commish your older bro?… donal want a cracker…buddy want donal’s cracker….. chirp chirp…

]]> By: Mr North Jersey http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136554 Mr North Jersey Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:56:40 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136554 Ahh thanks for that Howard. So it was a personal loan between Selig and the Wilpons and nothing to do with MLB. I was under the impression it was money from the commisioners office or something to that effect.

If that is the case then I really don’t care what other owners feel about what Selig does with his own money.

I can understand their concern as far the future of the Mets are involved but knowing now that the money was not mlb money I am not really concerned for their opinion on selig loaning them money.

]]> By: Matt74 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136552 Matt74 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:51:03 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136552 Well said Donal. Landis was hand selected by the owners to protect the owners under the guise of protecting the integrity of the game. Now a man like Fay Vincent, who was all about the integrity of the game, was basically thrown out, although he technically resigned after the 18-9 no confidence vote.

]]> By: Donal http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136549 Donal Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:40:33 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136549 The Commissioner was always a puppet of the owners. He was never suppsoed to be a nuetral 3rd party. Landis was first hired to investigate the Black Sox Scandal. Wait, let me rephrase that..he was there to trample on the players responsible.

Did he actually do anything about the economic situation that caused the scandal (ie owners cheating players out of money)? Hell, no.

]]> By: t agee http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136544 t agee Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:21:59 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136544 Well said, well written.

]]> By: William Howard http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136543 William Howard Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:09:35 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136543 Let me try to explain. Selig lent Wilpon the money from his MLB discretionary account and not the regular MLB accounts he is charged with overseeing. He can spend that money at his own discretion without having it go through a vote with other owners like the MLB accounts. He did nothing wrong and broke no rules. I think the problem being conveyed in this post was not the loan, but that he did not challenge the Wilpons when they publicly said they were not having any financial problems when he in fact knew they had plenty of problems. As for the other owners, if you search around you will see that at least 2-3 of them have already expressed some concern over the loan and whether it will ever get paid back.

]]> By: Mr North Jersey http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136537 Mr North Jersey Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:46:09 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136537 I am not a fan of Selig but I just can’t get hung up on him loaning $25M to the Mets especially when I don’t know if the other teams of mlb are aware of this or disapprove of such an action.

What I would really like to know is if this loan is unprecedented and of more importance do the other owners feel Selig overstepped his duties or even lied to the other owners by giving the Mets this loan?

]]> By: Metsie http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136530 Metsie Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:28:39 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136530 Unfortunatly Joe your definition of what the Commissioner is charged with doing is wrong.

The Commissioner is there to settle disputes between owmers not players. Thats why the position was created in the first place to mediate between the AL and the NL.

He also runs the business of the corporation which means he gets involved in player issues as a representative of the owners and since he is supposed to be an uninterested 3rd party he was deemed the best suited to hand out punishments for both owners and players since it was likely a team would not punish their own player effectively so they could still use them.

Unfortunatly they did assign a former owner to that position in Selig so most of his decisions are skewed in the owner’s favor.

And that is largely because of the many baseball strikes that they felt the commissioner was not representing the owners interests well enough.

As for the Mets loan the reason they would do that is because they do not want another Montreal Expos to happen. MLB actually took over that franchise and had to foot the bill for an uncompetitive team.

Oddly enough Omar managed them as frugally as anyone could have while still developing talent and too bad he could never do that with us because too many people would complain we were not big players in FA!

]]> By: metsaddict77 http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136527 metsaddict77 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:15:41 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136527 two more ” we’re screwed!”

]]> By: LAMetsFan http://metsmerizedonline.com/2011/03/the-tyrannical-reign-of-bud-selig.html#comment-136524 LAMetsFan Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:06:53 +0000 http://metsmerizedonline.com/?p=45460#comment-136524 Two words, spot on!

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