"Bud Selig's legacy is about as uncomplicated as it gets. He's the best Commissioner baseball has ever had. Is that uncomplicated enough?"
As uncomplicated as saying 2 + 2 = 5.
Elegant ... simple ... wrong.
"All the good things that have happened to baseball the past 21 years have been a byproduct of Selig's leadership, persistence and vision."
Steroids.
"Twenty-one years later, baseball has been transformed by labor peace, revenue sharing, drug testing, competitive balance, affirmative action, new ballparks, expanded playoffs, television coverage and a little Internet startup, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, that has become one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of American business."
All built on the overwhelmingly positive response by fans to PED freaks hitting lots of HRs.
As for competitive balance -- though I dispute whether or not competitive balance is good for the sport in the first place -- tell it to the Astros.
The 1980s had nine separate Champions, many of them small-market. Not sure what problem Selig thought he was solving when he got all freaked out by the 1998 Yankees.
"As he prepares to leave the sport he transformed, that single image of Bud Selig, this good man, this smart, funny man who remade a sport, is the one that will endure."
I think he's a sad old man who has some problem with the Yankees, and ARod in particular, even though he profited greatly from both of them.
The rest of his so-called accomplishments? Tell me how the game is better today than it was in 1991.
I'm not complaining about the game as it is, but I don't see how Selig has improved the game in any way. Selig capitulates to old, white men instead of embracing the modern athlete and the younger fans. The next commissioner ought to be Scott Boras.
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