It's time to replace Bud Selig as Major League Baseball Commissioner

[BeatleBoot]

Along with BP executives.

I'll add MLB to my list of boycotts.

[SargeUNN]

1. Selig needs to go

He is an owners puppet

[rzemanfl]

4. He was an owner before he became a puppet. Actually, the guy

who was robbed of his perfect game will be more famous for that than he would be for a perfect game.

[BeatleBoot]

6. I think its a perfect metaphor

For the guy who works his ass off day in and day out

So much so that he reaches the pinnacle of his work...

And then gets pimped by the company he works for.

Fire Bud Selig - NOW!

[Taverner]

2. Replace him with Condoleeza Rice!!!

Just kidding...that would be disaster...

[DebbieCDC]

3. He's needed to go for years

The owners will never get rid of him.

[cheneyschernobyl]

5. My boycott of MLB has been 15 years.

The 1994 strike did it for me; even the World Series was cancelled!

[Better Believe It]

12. I supported the strike.

And fortunately for baseball fans, the players and others who work in the baseball industry the players won.

[Barack_America]

7. +1

It's been a long time coming, but his decision today should be the final nail in the coffin.

[BeatleBoot]

11. He just pissed all over an employee of the organization

and this was an EASY call for him to make.

No leadership abilities.

ZERO.

FIRE Bud Selig NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PufPuf23]

8. Selig should have been gone long ago. nt

I am a life long SF Giant fan.

[MrCoffee]

9. It's long past time to replace Bud "Steroid" Selig

He's a joke.

[City Lights]

10. I can't remember the last time I watched a baseball game.

Guess I've been boycotting it for years.

[jakefrep]

13. No it isn't. He made the right decision in this case.

[BeatleBoot]

14. White House: Baseball Should Reverse Ump's Mistake

From CBS News..

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/03/ap/politics/main6545139.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsTravelGuru+(Travel+Guru%3A+CBSNews.com)


(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - First the umpire blew the call.

Now, in the view of the White House, so did Major League Baseball.

Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs weighed in Thursday on the story that had the nation talking: umpire Jim Joyce's muffed call that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game. Galarraga on Wednesday night almost had the rare feat secured - 27 up, 27 down - except Joyce incorrectly called a runner safe on what would have been the final play of the game against the Cleveland Indians.

Replays showed that Joyce got the call wrong, which he later acknowledged after the seeing the video himself.

Said Gibbs: "I hope that baseball awards a perfect game to that pitcher."

Too late.

By the time Gibbs made that statement in his press briefing, the news broke that Commissioner Bud Selig will not reverse Joyce's call.

A reporter informed Gibbs, who responded: "They're not going to do it?"

Then he quipped: "We're going to work on an executive order."


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[HuckleB]

16. It's time for Selig to go.

It was time for him to go the moment he got the job. (On the other hand, Brewers fans will be forever grateful to the rest of MLB for taking him off our hands!)

However, yes, he made the right decision in this case.

[TZ]

17. +1000

He's never been a very good commissioner. Personally I think the All Star Tie decision was much worse than this one.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. The pitcher...

did the right thing when he said no one is perfect. The manager said "He is a good umpire. His is human, humans make mistakes. What are you going to do?". After the game the ump, once he saw the replay, sought out the pitcher, apologized, and ADMITTED he made the wrong call. When is the last time (if it has ever happened) that an umpire admitted a mistake? Everyone in this situation did the right thing- all except Selig. Not surprising, he hasn't done the right thing ever. Look at steroids. All the grief from sports fans is aimed at baseball but not football. Why? Because if an NFL player, no matter how big a name play he is (like Sean Merriman) tests positive, he is punished promptly. Baseball tries to sweep it under the rug. Except in just a few cases, the MLB players who are fined and suspended are no-name major leaguers or triple A players.

[BeatleBoot]

19. + 10,000

:)

[joeybee12]

18. Never should have been hired in thefirst place...worst commissioner EVER! n/t