Bud Wants Some Credit

[Darkstone42]

Selig weighs in on Bucs? recent success | TribLIVE

Okay, the changes have helped, I'll grant him that, but so much for modesty, eh?

 

[thecrow124]

Pud fricking Sellout will get no credit for the Pittsburgh Pirates success from me.

 

[stillmatic32]

 

[element1286]

What a jerkoff.....

 

[thedddd]

What is a$$clown....His plan is really working well in KC, Oakland, San Diego and Houston (not even a small market) right now.

 

[Etrius24]

Revenue sharing does not go far enough... Not even close.. The best that small market teams can do is create windows... 2-3 year spans where they hope a handful of prospects turn out and are all playing at the same time... because there is no way they have the resources to sign those players more than a year maybe two maximum beyond their free agent year....

Funny how Bud Selig did not talk about how much money teams like the bucs, athletics, twins, royals have to spend on payroll compared to the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, and Dodgers

Selig is a fucking joke.

 

[magnumo]

Beware: This post will not be popular.

I am NOT a fan of Bud Selig, baseball's awful financial landscape, the DH, interleague play, the expanded playoffs, etc., etc., etc.

However, we must recognize that Selig INHERITED the awful financial landscape, which had been in place long before he became commissioner.

There is no doubt that MLB (as a whole) has done very well financially during his tenure as commissioner. Like most everyone else, I'd prefer a hard salary cap and a level financial playing field..... but I see absolutely NO WAY to get there from here. Under those circumstances, revenue sharing and the "taxes" implemented by Selig have made it at least POSSIBLE for small markets to compete. And it's pretty amazing that he was able to get the large market (and most powerful) owners to agree to hand over multi-millions to their small market brethren on an ongoing basis. He had to convince those large market owners that MLB would be better off if they GAVE AWAY large chunks of money to the small market owners (every year), rather than have significant contraction of MLB from losing a number of failed franchises. That's kind of like going into a neighborhood and convincing the people with the most money and nicest houses that they needed to give big bucks to their less-well-off neighbors CONTINUOUSLY for the good of the neighborhood.

I believe Selig deserves some credit for that. (Without revenue sharing, I doubt that the Pirates would have survived in Pittsburgh.)