Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Selig

While technically not a four letter word, SELIG has been a curse on the great game of baseball.

Indecisive, a pure yes man surrounded by more yes men, Selig is exactly what self destructive business people like Major League owners desire, a yes man who will do whatever they say without question.

Has there ever been a worse leader of this major sport? No, absolutely not. From the All Star game fiasco, to the cancelled World Series and all through the infestation of steroids, Selig has proven over and over that he is less than effective as the CEO of baseball. There are numerous way points at which he should have resigned (yea right, the owners fire him?, that's a laugh) and now perhaps he should be indicted as complicit on the steroid debacle much as Vince McMahon was in the '90s WWF steroid investigation.

Alas, it won't happen for a number of reasons. Sadly baseball will have to survive not only a recession and the sullying of its reputation and diminution of the value of its sacred statistics, but at least a couple more years of horrible leadership, er, Bud Selig.

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