what's the worst thing bud selig has ever done?

Question

I say the all-star world series advantage.

Answer 1

An enabler who now acts so surprised about the steroid abuse.

Answer 2

I can name a few:

1). Turn his back on this whole steroid issue, when u knew something was going on in late 80's - 90's. Guys don't naturally get that big.

2). Calling the 2002 All - Star game a tie. Now, people wait all year 2 see this game, and he called it a tie, not cause they had no more players, but because he was tired of the long game, and that it was being played in Milwaukee, with no Brewers.

3). The whole home - field advantage all star thing. I mean, nothing substantial has happened yet, but what if the Cardinals got home - field last year? I mean, it didn't matter, but what if it did. Tigers clearly had a better record, yet they don't get home field. Hopefully, this year, it turns out good again.

And that's an outline of Bud Sielig's blunders, in a nutshell, a very large nutshell.

Answer 3

I would say turning his head away from the steroid problem. I feel he and the owners know what was going on way before McGwire and Sosa starting insulating the home run records. I think back to what Canseco in 1988 (40/40 club) and as a young teen remember questioning weather he took roids or not.

In Selig's time before the Bonds, McGwire and Sosa brought steroid to the forefront you had by many players own guesses at least 10% of all players taking that junk.

Nothing was done until congress started saying if you don't clean your sport we will and we'll also take away your anti-trust exemption.

One other thing he did that really bothers me as a Cub fan is that every year the Brewers (who Selig family owns) gets more home games vs the Cubs (because it becomes Wrigley Field North and they make a TON of money on those dates with sell outs)

Answer 4

those arent the worst issues Selig has finished, yet i choose for to indicate them out because of the fact those are judgements he made that probably inspired the end results of my homeland group's seasons. 2005 international sequence, He made the Astros open the roof by using concerns with regard to the noise point bothering the traveling white sox. That took away a huge part of the astros living house field benefit. They performed virtually the full season (and the full submit season) with the roof close. As a fan, I didnt like the roof close, however the gamers did. Then selig steps in and adjustments the full sense of the park because of the fact he felt it exchange into too super of an benefit for the Astros to have the roof close... 2008, bud selig strikes an important previous due season astros/cubs sequence that exchange into meant to be performed in Houston to "independent floor" ( Milwaukee!! A stones throw from chicago, the place the cub followers out style the astros followers one thousand to a million) that's what selig considers independent floor.

Answer 5

Not getting rid of steroids in baseball! This leads to an unfair advantage for the players who do use them! I THINK MOST OF THE RECORDS WILL BE FOUND TO HAVE BEEN DONE BY THE ADVANTAGE OF STEROIDS AS THE YEARS PASS BY! The old time ball players never used this stuff and I think their records are more credible than the ones being set today! Bud Selig was an owner, was hired by the owners and does what the owners tell him to do! I think it is about time we get a comissioner who stands for what he believes in!

Answer 6

Tough to pick his clear #1.

I'm torn between:

a. failing to reach a labor deal in 1994, or

b. taking the commissioner's chair for himself, when Rangers figurehead George W. Bush wanted it. The entire world would surely be in better shape today if it went otherwise. (Note, this in no way endorses Preznit Screwup for the kommissar's office when he leaves his current job. Baseball fans do not need proof that there could be a worse kommissar than Seligula.)

Third would be gaming the Expos/relo/Marlins/Red Sox deal. That was simply criminal.

Answer 7

JUST one?

If you must have just one, then it's been that every move that he's made regarding broadcasting rights, including subscriptions to various MLB Gameday products, has been done to take access to the game away from people with little or no disposable income. That's a great way to keep kids from learning about the game, and if they can't learn about baseball, the game can't grow.

Isn't the appropriate question - name something good done by this individual? (I won't use his name, ever.)

Answer 8

Lock out of 1994 when Matt Williams would have broken the record for most homeruns. I like the fact that there's a way of determining the World Series homefield advantage.

Answer 9

allowing the steroid issue to get way out of line. barry bonds should have an asterick next to any rocord. for that matter so should mark mcguire remember , baseball players are role models to todays youth. oh you need proof of steroid use? just look at the size of the melons on those guys, and this happened after age 35 "oh thats normal"

Answer 10

Buy the Brewers (at that time, the Seattle Pilots). He should have stuck to selling cars, and stayed out of baseball.