Selig is retiring

[thehippo73]

Bud Selig is retiring after the 2014 season in January 2015. Who will be the next commissioner? My money is on Joe Torre.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I hope not. I'm not a big Torre fan and I'd like for the next Commissioner not to have ties with former teams he might have managed. Not that he would play favors but..my guess is on Rob Manfred.

 

[thehippo73]

I agree with the no ties to any team. The Brewers seem to get whatever they wanted under Selig. I don't think Torre would do the same since his daughter doesn't own any teams.

 

[Thumb]

Dombrowski has been a dark horse favorite for a while. If the Tigers win it all....what does he have left to prove?

 

[Rebbiv]

Newt Gingrich

 

[Thundercats]

George W. Bush

 

[spockmaster]

My vote would be for either Torre or DD, personally. LaRussa would be a dark horse candidate.

 

[Mitchrapp]

DD wouldn't be bad. 2015 WS, Detroit vs. Miami..

 

[spockmaster]

Also, its about fucking time. I hate Selig.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Also, its about fucking time. I hate Selig.

I was going to post something similar but as the saying goes "watch out what you wish for" - Next guy could be worse.

 

[spockmaster]

I was going to post something similar but as the saying goes "watch out what you wish for" - Next guy could be worse.

True, but he could be better as well. We wont know till he's gone.

 

[kalinecountry]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/...candidates-succeed-mlb-commissioner-bud-selig
The names of who insiders think it will be, Gammons on mlb xm and Stark here mention the same guys.


http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9727367/mlb-commissioner-bud-selig-retire-2014-season
Kurkjian

 

[Mitchrapp]

What would be a better return for Pete Rose than as Commissioner. He could start banning people from baseball..awesome.

 

[kingofdetroit57]

Good, it's about time.

I'd personally like to see someone younger like Dombrowski, than some fossils like Torre or LaRussa.

 

[kalinecountry]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb...md=20130930&content_id=62234844&vkey=news_mlb
Rob Manfred named MLB's chief operating officer.
Selig begins transition toward retirement by promoting longtime executive VP.
mlb.com

 

[tomdalton22]

I don't understand all of the hate for Selig. He has done a pretty good job while commisioner.

He was the commisioner during the steroid era but he tried to get drug testing in the CBA but the union refused. The union and the players are to blame for the steroid era....not Selig.

 

[byco42]

I don't understand all of the hate for Selig. He has done a pretty good job while commisioner.

He was the commisioner during the steroid era but he tried to get drug testing in the CBA but the union refused. The union and the players are to blame for the steroid era....not Selig.

Bud, as the "commissioner" of the game, has an obligation to see that it is played as fairly as possible. A simple "no-drug test, no baseball" stand would have been appropriate and proper when the CBA was in negotiation. Instead, he buried his head and washed his hands of the whole mess. And instituted that silly ASG home-field-advantage clause.

 

[tomdalton22]

Bud, as the "commissioner" of the game, has an obligation to see that it is played as fairly as possible. A simple "no-drug test, no baseball" stand would have been appropriate and proper when the CBA was in negotiation. Instead, he buried his head and washed his hands of the whole mess. And instituted that silly ASG home-field-advantage clause.

they had already lost a world series and were in danger of losing another season. The union knew that they had something to hide so they wouldn't allow drug testing. All the union and players had to do is agree to drug testing but they wouldn't. The owners / Selig try to get testing and the union refuses. To blame anybody but the union is moronic IMO.

 

[byco42]

they had already lost a world series and were in danger of losing another season. The union knew that they had something to hide so they wouldn't allow drug testing. All the union and players had to do is agree to drug testing but they wouldn't. The owners / Selig try to get testing and the union refuses. To blame anybody but the union is moronic IMO.

Not related. That was in 1994. And blaming the unions solely is like blaming the robber for the fact that the cop refused to arrest him. Selig could have ended all this comedy 10 years ago. I don't believe for a second that he was ignorant of them in the late 1990s. That was when he should have made drug testing a deal breaker, in 2002, when steroids were rampant and everyone knew it.

 

[Rebbiv]

I don't understand all of the hate for Selig. He has done a pretty good job while commisioner.

He was the commisioner during the steroid era but he tried to get drug testing in the CBA but the union refused. The union and the players are to blame for the steroid era....not Selig.

Tom

The Players Union had agreed to anonymous testing in 2003, only to find out the list of players testing positive was turned over to the government (as part of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative investigation).

Similar thing happened with the Mitchell Report, commissioned by Selig after CONGRESS got all uppity. Mitchell agreed to give Commissioner Selig an advanced copy of the report while refusing to do the same for the Players Association prior to it's release.

Regardless of you opinion on unions. The key charter for a Union is to protect the work environment of it's members. MLB and Selig were not being forthright with the union.

And for the record. The commissioner works for the owners and is voted in by the owners. For that alone, it would be highly unlikely a former union member would become commissioned (i.e. Torre).