Bud apologizes for reserve clause, etc.
Bud, is this really necessary? I love how this makes a story: Baseball Commissioner takes credit for the sport's popularity. What has Bud done? Managed to avoid another cataclysmic and pointless strike because both sides realize they are making more money than everyone else in the country except the oil companies?
I actually liked this article, because I felt that deep down, whoever wrote it was actually mocking ol' Bud. Why else would we publish the fact that a commissioner apologized for something he had nothing to do with? But here's the real clincher that makes this article a Bud-laugh:
Red Sox president Larry Lucchino called Selig "the Harry Truman of baseball commissioners" and said changes such as interleague play and the wild card make Selig the most accomplished of the sport's leaders.
Ookay, Larry. Make a comparison to a president whose most famous action was utterly annihilating an enemy. I hardly suspect that the wild-card and interleague play have established baseball as the superpower sport, while Nagasaki established the USA as the superpower country.
Was that what you were trying to say, Mr. Lucchino?
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