mikechamp wrote:How's this for a bit of irony (in light of this thread topic):
Commissioner Bud Selig was formally presented on Thursday with the award as the 2006 Executive of the Year by the Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily.
Well first off for the post title.....
What does Bud Selig diretly have to do with this? It was from the commisioners office, which means it could be any one of his staff. It could be from someone in charge of uniform and licensing. Who knows. I dont know what Bud has anything to do with this...
Also, Bud should get an award in Sports Business. Baseball is rolling in dough right now. I am not saying that it is because of Selig, but he is head of a very very successful business right now. Just like the CEOs of Goldman-Sachs and other big firms that are posting record profits are getting awards, so should Bud....
Fan_In_NY wrote:Well first off for the post title.....
What does Bud Selig diretly have to do with this? It was from the commisioners office, which means it could be any one of his staff. It could be from someone in charge of uniform and licensing. Who knows. I dont know what Bud has anything to do with this...
I don't know if Bud directly made this decision, but since it came from his office, the responsibility lies with him, and the criticism/praise will and should be directed at him. That just comes with the job.
It's spring training. He's a future HoF'er who's been doing this for years. Good God.
As a company, you cannot allow someone to change your trade dress (no matter how small of a change) without approval of the proper department. I'm surprised baseball didn't have this in the books a long time ago. This is a very noble cause, but it still needs to go through the proper vetting and procedure. I just think baseball could have handled it better.
Fan_In_NY wrote:Well first off for the post title.....
What does Bud Selig diretly have to do with this? It was from the commisioners office, which means it could be any one of his staff. It could be from someone in charge of uniform and licensing. Who knows. I dont know what Bud has anything to do with this...
I don't know if Bud directly made this decision, but since it came from his office, the responsibility lies with him, and the criticism/praise will and should be directed at him. That just comes with the job.
I dont know, I just see Bud not really being involved in this. I can see some random staffer getting a memo that says "Please make sure all players are following uniform specs as per rulebook" from some person above them. That staffer goes out and sends something to Biggio and other offenders not to have stuff on their hats (without knowing what the pin actually stands for). How many times does a memo get sent out to lower employees by a Manager at a company that wasn't approved by the CEO, President, etc. because it just isnt deemed important enough? I dont mind killing "Baseball" on this, but to get upset at a single man that probably has nothing to do with this seems silly.
Not so sure about that; considering he's been playing well past his prime trying to get to 3000 hits, and considering his role in the ouster of at least one or two Houston managers, I'm not so sure about that.
Craig Biggio has been wearing that pin for 20 years and for some reason, they're just now bugging him about it? I can understand the intention, but come on. This is the same league that used pink bats for cancer awareness, but Craig Biggio wears a pint sized ribbon in his head and they go ape? Someone screwed up in the common sense department of the MLB.
Selig is a lighning rod. He gets way more blame for things than he should. Take the all star game tie for instance. The managers use every pitcher they have and recommend he calls the game a tie. Who gets all the balme??? Selig. If he says no play on and a pitcher blows his arm out, he gets vilified for that. So now thinking that people actually care about the outcome of the all star game, he thought this because of the OUTRAGE over the game ending in a tie, he makes the game mean something and viola there is OUTRAGE voer an exibition game meaning something. You can't have both ways folks.
On this topic, you either enforce rules or you don't. You allow people to wear whatever charity or organization they want to draw attention to or you don't.
cardfaninfla wrote:Take the all star game tie for instance. The managers use every pitcher they have and recommend he calls the game a tie. Who gets all the balme??? Selig. If he says no play on and a pitcher blows his arm out, he gets vilified for that. So now thinking that people actually care about the outcome of the all star game, he thought this because of the OUTRAGE over the game ending in a tie, he makes the game mean something and viola there is OUTRAGE voer an exibition game meaning something. You can't have both ways folks.
To whom exactly is this directed? I don't know that I've ever heard someone, especially here, damning both the decision to call a tie and have home field in the WS determined by the ASG.
mcgee51taguchi99 wrote:I don't know that I've ever heard someone, especially here, damning both the decision to call a tie and have home field in the WS determined by the ASG.
Check the "If you could change one thing about MLB, what would it be" thread.
The sentiments aren't directed at Bud, but there are people (myself included) who don't feel HFA should be determined in the ASG.
