Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Bud Selig Looking Good In Bronze



It was announced yesterday that the Brewers will erect and unveil a statue of Bud Selig outside of Miller Park.

Bud Selig is being honoured for his "vision and dedicated effort" and I'll finish the sentence - "vision and dedicated effort" in ruining baseball. To have a statue of yourself raise 7 feet off the ground, you should have contributed something to the community where you live.

Selig did do one good thing for Milwaukee, he brought baseball there in 1970 when he bought the Seattle Pilots and moved them to Wisconsin, after that it has been pretty down hill. During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. Selig was part of the owners' collusion in 1985–1987, resulting in the owners paying $280 million in damages to the players.

Then in 1992 Selig was named Commissioner of Baseball. More follies ensued...
-> Institutes Wild Card and Divisional Playoffs
-> Suspends Marge Schott for repeated prejudicial remarks and actions
-> Reinstates George Steinbrenner from a lifelong suspension
-> Has not reinstated Pete Rose
-> Represented MLB during the 1994 strike that almost killed baseball
-> Canceled the World Series, making it the first time it had not been staged since 1904
-> Implemented interleague play
-> Selig held a vote on contracting two teams, reportedly the Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos. This action led to Selig (along with former Expos owner Jeffrey Loria) being sued for racketeering and conspiring with Loria to deliberately defraud the Expos minority owners.
-> Decided to end the 2002 All-Star Game (which was being held in Milwaukee) in a tie
-> Decided to award the winner of the All-Star Game home field advantage in the World Series. The American League thanks you
-> Commissioner during the PED era and did nothing about it
-> Was going to retire in 2009, he then pulled a Brett Favre and decided to extend his tenure to 2012

That is quite the resume....so with all that Bud Selig has accomplished and now that the bar is set quite low for getting your own statue, I think these are the next few people who should be immortalized;
-> Barry Bonds outside PNC Park in San Francisco
-> Roger Clemens outside Fenway in Boston
-> Vince Carter outside the ACC in Toronto
-> Conan O'Brien outside the NBC studios
-> Brett Favre outside Lambeau Field in Green Bay

What random and bad choices for statues do you think are out there?

(Thanks to Wikipedia for information on Bud)

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